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ROMBus

ROMBus

© James Thomas. Have you discovered ROMBus?  The bus is rolling after a three-year hiatus with a selection of unique day trips featuring locations of historical, natural, and cultural interest within Toronto and its surrounding areas. Each tour is hosted by ROM volunteers and features local

Spring: I Spy (Ages 4-5) AM

At the ROM there is no shortage of wonderful treasures to feast your eyes on. On your adventures you’ll meet brown bats in a dark cave, bustling bees in a busy hive, animals in art from Egypt, Rome, and beyond. What you see on your museum travels will unleash your imagination and inspire stories,

ROM Centennial Memory Project

Thank you for enabling the ROM to nurture discovery and inspire wonder for more than a century. In honour of the Museum’s Centennial many of you supported our Love the ROM fundraising campaign, helping to enrich lives with extraordinary experiences of science and civilization. Supporters who

Holiday Gift Guide 2018

Shop the ROM this holiday season! November 30- December 2, 2018 ROM Members get double the discount! 20% off regularly priced merchandise* at the ROM Boutique and the Exhibition Boutique when you show your Membership card. Ornaments, books, apparel and so much more. Find the perfect gift for

Moonbird re-sighting

Moonbird re-sighting

Back in 1995 ROM ornithologist Dr. Allan Baker  was part of an international team that banded a small shorebird in Argentina, a Red-knot soon to become dubbed Moonbird, with a leg band with the number B95 on it. Since then Allan and his team at the ROM along with a growing community of partners

Meet Kate Cooper. Ancient Greece and Rome Expert.

We caught up with Kate Cooper examining Corinthianising pottery in the ROM store rooms. For Ancient Rome and Greece Family Weekend we will have the opportunity to actually touch some objects and talk to some of the ROM’s experts on Ancient Greece and Rome. One of these is Kate Cooper, the new

#ThrowbackThursday: Big Labels for Old Drafts

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

A Magical Place named Wide Waters

On a chilly February evening, Dr. David Stuart of the University of Texas at Austin shared his enthusiasm for the Maya site of Palenque, and took the ROM audience to a very different time and place. His lecture, entitled Palenque: The Art and History of an Ancient Maya Court, covered several

Objects and stories from Namibia

Objects and stories from Namibia

Sometimes collections grow out of chance encounters and long distance personal relationships. A couple of years ago, I was put in touch with Nharo!, a Toronto based fair trade company, by my colleague Trudy Nicks, who is a passionate explorer of the CNE international pavilion. Last year, this

Discoveries at Harvard – ROM expertise at work

This week I am in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Harvard Art Museums  here are rebuilding, and planning new galleries, and have also acquired a new collection of pottery from the Middle East.  So they have flown me down here for the week on an all-expenses-paid visit, to look at their Islamic