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Museum Monday with Melissa- March 30, 2015

Museum Monday with Melissa- March 30, 2015

me Museum Makeover on Tuesday March 31st. It is sure to be an inspired evening on creating the dream museum of the future. Panel contributors include David Evans, the ROM’s Ultimate Dino Expert, and Peter J. Kim, the Executive Director of the Museum of Food and Drink. For seniors, something

Ultimate Dinos Sneak Peek: El Chocon

play, with a walkway surrounding it so visitors can get take in its massive size. Thanks to our hosts, we were allowed to film the skeleton up close. David Evans with the fossil skeleton of Giganotosaurus at the Museo Ernest Bachmann. The village overlooks a man-made lake, which is surrounded by

Museum Monday with Melissa- July 20, 2015

Museum Monday with Melissa- July 20, 2015

hornensis. It was discovered by renowned fossil finder Wendy Sloboda in 2010, and excavated over the following three field seasons by the ROM’s Dr. David Evans and Dr. Michael Ryan of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History as part of their Southern Alberta Dinosaur Project. Pretty funny how I

Southern Alberta field collection 2011 has arrived!

e have plenty to keep us busy in the prep lab. The freshly opened crate of southern Alberta fossils collected by the ROM in 2011. ROM palaeontologist David Evans inspects the collection.  

The 'Goddess' and the Museum: The Early Years

The 'Goddess' and the Museum: The Early Years

The front pages of The Palace of Minos volume 4, published by Sir Arthur Evans in 1935 This is the first of a series of articles that Julia Fenn and I will be writing over the next months as part of the research project about a ROM icon: the ‘Minoan’ Ivory Goddess. For the first three

ROM Fossils & Evolution kicks off #Fossil150!

ROM Fossils & Evolution kicks off #Fossil150!

Posted by: Marianne Mader & David Evans   ROM Fossils & Evolution kicks off #Fossil150 Campaign! This year will mark Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation. The year 2017 will be one of reflection and celebration of Canada’s rich cultural, linguistic, geographic- and geological- d

Summerasaurus Part II: A Day in the Quarry

Mark Farmer recently returned from an expedition to the badlands of southern Alberta with Dr. David Evans, Associate Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the ROM, in search of dinosaurs. Join us over the course of the next month as Mark and Dr. Evans put up their notes from the field, detailing di

Student Photographers Shoot for the ROM

Student Photographers Shoot for the ROM

  On Tuesday evening,  April 8, the ROM, in conjunction with The Walrus Foundation, held the book launch of Every Object Has A Story, an amazing new book celebrating 100 years of the ROM.  This is a book about twenty-one iconic artifacts/specimens, with  twenty-one ROM Curators and experts and

Museum Monday with Melissa- May 25, 2015

Museum Monday with Melissa- May 25, 2015

e ROM Daytime. It is a lecture that takes place on the last Thursday of each month at the Museum. This week is sure to be amazing as paleontologist  David Evans will be speaking on  Digging Up a Dinosaur Icon: The ROM Triceratops Project. The lecture will take place in the Eaton Theatre from

The ROM ‘Minoan’ Goddess: The Minoan Relations

The ROM ‘Minoan’ Goddess: The Minoan Relations

After looking at the best known of the dubious ‘Minoan’ figurines (which may be modern) in my last post, here I show some of the genuine Minoan objects discovered in archaeological excavations on Crete.  Read More  ► There are similarities between these certainly Minoan antiquities and the