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New Acquisition: Late Triassic Araucarian Conifer

New Acquisition: Late Triassic Araucarian Conifer

Last week the museum recieved our newly acquired Late Triassic Araucarian Conifer, purchased with the generous support of the  Louise Hawley Stone Charitable Trust- Acquisitions Fund. This vertically-sectioned, polished fossil tree trunk stands nearly 2 metres in height and it over one-half metre

Behind the Scenes: What the ROM is Doing this Afternoon

Behind the Scenes: What the ROM is Doing this Afternoon

By Deirdre Leowinata (B.Sc. Biology and EVC student) When you think of someone who works in a museum, the first (and possibly the only) thing that comes to mind is a curator. Maybe a security guard, maybe a tour guide, but usually it’s not much more than that. Little you may know, museums are

Google Hangout: South Asian Art & Culture

Google Hangout: South Asian Art & Culture

A conversation with Deepali Dewan, Senior Curator South Asian Art & Culture and Stuart Keeler, Director/Curator at the Art Gallery of Mississauga about South Asian Art and Culture. 

The ROM helps solve an age-old Martian mystery

The ROM helps solve an age-old Martian mystery

In a major discovery released in late July in the respected scientific journal Nature, a team including Royal Ontario Museum curator of mineralogy Dr. Kim Tait has provided the conclusive answer to a longstanding debate about the age of Martian meteorites. The research has determined that at least

Museum Archives Special Collections Alphabetical List

Last update: 2019 August 15 A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H   I   J   K   L   M   N   O   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   X   Y   Z A American Ornithologists’ Union- American Ornithologists’ Union collection- SC74 [University of Toronto Library record] Anderson, Robert

New Research from the Burgess Shale: Thorny worms that swarmed in the Cambrian seas

New Research from the Burgess Shale: Thorny worms that swarmed in the Cambrian seas

Hallucigenia sparsa is no ordinary animal. This poster child of the Burgess Shale biota is the ultimate weirdo, and the ROM holds the world’s largest collection of specimens. New research published July 31st in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B, provides fresh new revelations about

Livres et magazines

Les Presses du ROM Les Presses du ROM constituent une petite maison d’édition couronnée de nombreux prix, qui porte sur le Musée, son histoire, ses collections, ses travaux de recherche, ses conférences et ses expositions. Publiant des textes spécialisés ou d’intérêt général (surtout

ROM Out & About: Earth & Space Trivia Night

Last night was the second in a series of ROM Pub Trivia nights at the Fox's Den. With a healthy turnout of 53 people, the crowd was stumped and the winning team managed 37 correct answers out of 56. How well would you have done?  Test yourself with some of these questions from last night.

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

The 'Goddess' and the Museum: Museum Attitudes

The 'Goddess' and the Museum: Museum Attitudes

In 1931 the ROM had paid a huge sum for an object that would put the newly-established Museum on the map in the eyes of the international academic and museum community and the visiting public.  Currelly had ensured that the figure was authenticated by the foremost expert, Sir Arthur Evans, and