Enjoy a birthday adventure at ROM, where excitement awaits around every corner!

Senior Curator Emeritus, Fungi

Continuing my geographically rooted exploration of the Canadian Decorative Arts Collection, as the year of the dubious Canada 150 draws to a close, I come to the West, and am going to highlight some

Hallucigenia’s modern relatives live in trees in jungles around the world The 505-million-year-old Burgess Shale in Canada’s Yoho National Park is famed for its bizarre marine animal fossils, most of

A report on Deir Mar Musa would not be complete without an account of the frescoes. Others have done most of the work studying these paintings, but my architectural study of the monastery buildings

Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898) was born in the late 19th century—a time when society was beginning to question the rapid industrialization and capitalism that was reverberating across the world. Marked

Following a hardened smuggler (Pedro Pascal) as he ferries a 14-year-old girl (Bella Ramsey) across a zombie-infested America, HBO’s The Last of Us is both a video game adaptation and a horror

L.R. Wilson Curator of Canadian Art & Culture (Canadian Paintings, Prints & Drawings)

Many of us are familiar with the expression ‘the people make the place’ and nowhere is this truer than at ROM. The Museum would not be a world-class cultural institution without the generous support

TORONTO, August 6, 2020 – Josh Basseches, Director & CEO of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), announced today the appointment of Nadim Kara as Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO). In this role, Kara

As a PhD student in Berlin, I studied two shallow lakes in the heart of Brandenburg forests. Although these lakes were similar in many ways, one of them had “flipped” at some point in the previous