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CANADA 150- Ontario- Clay

CANADA 150- Ontario- Clay

I have twenty vessels and one small tile in my office right now that are a little bit mysterious. Most of them are made of clay from Ontario, so I'm choosing to highlight them in my ongoing tour of Canada, through the Canadian Decorative Arts Collection. They are a set of vessels that was

Dr. Catherine Forster: Dinosaur Hunter

Meet Catherine Forester, the first speaker in our Dinosaur Hunter SpeakerSeries. If you thought all dinosaur hunters were men, you’d be wrong. Our first palaeontologist in the Dinosaur Hunters Speaker Series, which starts this Sunday September 9, is Dr. Catherine Forster. She has toughed it out

@janetcarding Tweeting from the Top

This article was originally published on UNMUSEUM on September 27, 2011. You can follow Janet on Twitter @janetcarding. 2011 has been my first real summer on Twitter. In fact I’ve had an account for a couple of years, but used it rather sporadically at conferences. After I arrived in Toronto

ROM Research: Weighing Giants

by Nicolás Campione, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto Ever wonder how dinosaurs are weighed? Determining the mass of an animal that has been dead for more than 65 million years can be difficult, but knowing the weight of an animal can provide useful information about how it lived. This is

Re-enactment, Archaeology, and the Ancient Rome & Greece Weekend V of IV: The Final Story

Re-enactment, Archaeology, and the Ancient Rome & Greece Weekend V of IV: The Final Story

Ancient Rome & Greece Weekend is over, and I thought I would show you the results of my attempt to create a recreation, re-enactment, or impression of a soldier from Dura-Europos (so this is not really one of the original IV, so to speak, hence it is V of IV). In the group above you can see me

Unfrozen in Time: From the Erebus and Terror to the ROM

Unfrozen in Time: From the Erebus and Terror to the ROM

Guest Blog by Dorea Reeser, Ph.D., Environmental Visual Communication Student, ROM Biodiversity and Fleming College Special thanks to  Tim Dickinson, ROM Senior Curator of Botany, Emeritus Ahoy there! For 167 YEARS, the search for Sir John Franklin, his crew, and their lost ships, the HMS Erebus

Photographer thoughts: A conversation with Mark Peck

Photographer thoughts: A conversation with Mark Peck

Guest Blog written by Environmental Visual Communication student Fatima Ali In a recent CBC interview Mark Peck, the Royal Ontario Museum’s (ROM) very own ornithologist and devoted baseball fan, said, “If the baseball team plays with as much heart as the birds show in everyday life, we'll

Interview with Dale Chihuly

Guest blog by Douglas Thomson, Content Manager ROM Magazine Sculptor Dale Chihuly pushes artistic boundaries, using heat, human breath, gravity, and glass as his creative tools. CHIHULY, an exhibition by American sculptor Dale Chihuly, is set to open at the ROM on June 25. As an artist,

Eight-legged and Adorable

Eight-legged and Adorable

Guest blog written by 2018 Environmental Visual Communication student Mya Van Woudenberg. Let me paint you a picture of a spectacular critter. Staring up at you is an adorable little animal precious enough that it could fit in your hand. You carefully pick him up, and his tiny feet tickle your

10 Birds You'll Love More Than Flappy Bird

10 Birds You'll Love More Than Flappy Bird

Is your high score below 10? Are you constantly crashing into those nauseating green pipes? Behold Flappy Bird, a frustratingly repetitive and highly addicting flash game about a bird who depends on you to navigate through Super Mario-esque pipes. The instructions are undefined, but the game is