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Summerasaurus Part V: The Badlands

e you accept the fact that you’re in a place unlike anywhere else in Canada, it all becomes simple and beautiful. This is the environment where Dr. David Evans and his colleagues spend several weeks each year as part of the ROM’s Southern Alberta Dinosaur Project. It’s bone dry and

The 'Goddess' and the Museum: "What's in a name?"

The 'Goddess' and the Museum: "What's in a name?"

In my last two blog posts about the Goddess and the Museum (The Early Years and Museum Attitudes) I’ve discussed the history of the ROM figurine from the 1930s to the present.  Here I want to reflect on the changing meanings that she has come to embody over those years.  In the decades since

How to display the past….. Part 2: Collecting

In my last post  I mentioned that various factors (sometimes pure chance) shaped a museum collection, and so affected the look of a public display.  Here, I illustrate this by exploring the collection history of one particularly famous (even infamous) object.  This ivory and gold figurine has

Zuul, Destroyer of Shins

found in the Judith River Formation of northern Montana, only 25 km from the Alberta border, in badlands along the Milk River. A ROM team lead by Dr. David Evans has been working these rocks in Alberta for almost 15 years as part of the Southern Alberta Dinosaur Project. Zuul and the other fossils

La déesse « minoenne » du ROM

La déesse « minoenne » du ROM

Bien que cette exquise figurine en ivoire et en or (numéro de catalogue 931.21.1) soit l’un des fleurons des collections du ROM depuis 1931, elle fait également l’objet de controverses passionnées.  Au moment de son acquisition, nous croyions alors qu’il s’agissait d’un rare

Unearthing the oldest dinosaur nesting site

together at the same time in organized colonies, and that the same species used this exact area to lay their eggs year after year. ROM paleontologist David Evans (left) and ROM technician Ian Morrison collect dinosaur nests in white plaster jackets. Photo credit: N. Wong-Ken Just why the dinosaurs

Volunteer Appreciation Week

Join the Royal Ontario Museum from April 6-12 as we celebrate the 1200+ volunteers who generously donate their time, energy, and creativity to make the ROM an indispensible resource for building community by nurturing discovery and inspiring wonder.   During Canada’s National Volunteer Week of

#ThrowbackThursday: Thank Goodness

In September, 1971, the ROM opened the landmark exhibition  Keep Me Warm One Night, a kaleidoscopic display of over 500 pieces of Canadian handweaving. It was the culmination of decades of pioneering research and collecting by the ROM curatorial powerhouse duo ‘Burnham and Burnham’, aka

Digital Artist Show-and-Tell featuring Sound Selecta

This past Friday, the Institute for Contemporary Culture hosted its first ‘Digital Artist Show and Tell’.  Amidst the glimmering iPad drawings in the David Hockney fresh flowers exhibition, over 30 people spontaneously congregated in the Roloff Beny Gallery for an interactive session with

Celebrating YPC Members

Celebrating YPC Members

As we near the end of 2017, we want to begin a new tradition of celebrating long-time and new YPC members whose continued philanthropic support has been vital to the ROM. Thank you for your generosity, and happy anniversary!  10+ years* (joined before December 2007) Brian Astl Jonathon Borland