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Two thumbs up to outstanding documentaries!

Can’t make it to the ROM? Make some popcorn, pick up one of these award-winning documentaries related to our current exhibitions and upcoming programs, and have a movie date with the ROM in your own livingroom! Touched by Water, a documentary by Tamás Wormser, examines bathing rituals and our

How do you hang a floor on the wall?

Today, we’re excited to present a sneak peek of the installation of the mosaic floor panels in the ROM’s new Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Gallery of Byzantium, opening July 1, 2011. ROM preparators make final adjustments to the steel wall mounting structure before hanging the mosaic panel. The Roman

Recap of Today’s Dino Q&A

A picture of David Evans (ROM) and fellow dino hunter Dr. M. Ryan excavating a fossil in Alberta shared on Twitter during the Q&A. Dr. David Evans, ROM palaeontologist and dino hunter, took your questions over twitter this afternoon for a one-hour Q&A. Here’s a recap of the

Summerasaurs Interactive: Ask a Palaeontologist

Dr. David Evans on-site in southern Alberta Want to know how palaeontologists discover new dinosaur species? How about finding about what it takes to get a dinosaur out of the ground and into the lab? Any other questions about hunting dinosaurs? Get the answers Wednesday, August 10 at 1:00 pm. Join

Cod and Caribou – good management, natural resiliency or media headlines

Cod. Photo by *Saipal. Flickr Creative Commons. By Dave Ireland, Managing Director, Biodiversity Programs for the Life in Crisis: Schad Gallery of Biodiversity. The collapse of the cod industry in the western Atlantic in the 1980’s, and in particular Newfoundland, is well known. So much so

Southern Alberta field collection 2011 has arrived!

Marked field jackets containing horned dinosaur bones from the McPheeter’s bonebed (MBB) and the South Side Ceratopsian (SSC). The fossil bones that we collected from the Milk River region of southern Alberta arrived late last week, and we have just opened the massive crate and inventoried the

Overgrown Bone — A ROM Paleontologist identifies the fish with the swollen head

Originally published in the Summer 2010 edition of ROM Magazine. Bluecheek Silver grunt   Q. I found this object on a beach in Oman. I think it might be part of a fish skull. If it is, can you tell me what kind of fish it is from? Mike Silver, Toronto A. You are indeed correct: it is part of a

When Friends come to visit...

The ROM’s Centre of Discovery- Fossils & Evolution is most fortunate to have an enthusiastic circle of dedicated Member supporters in the Friends of Palaeontology. Friends work closely with staff in the Palaeontology section to help develop and deliver popular public programs, including

At the Heart of the Museum: Samuel Hall Currelly Gallery Floor Restoration

At the Heart of the Museum: Samuel Hall Currelly Gallery Floor Restoration

The majestic Samuel Hall Currelly Gallery, built during the Museum’s 1933 expansion, connects the 1914 Philosophers Walk Wing to the 1933 Hilary and Galen Weston Wing on Queen’s Park. Many upgrades and modifications have enhanced the gallery’s role as the visitor’s orientation space to the