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Saul Rubinek Has No Illusions

An intimate interview with Saul Rubinek, the acclaimed playwright and actor who has appeared in major series, including Curb Your Enthusiasm; Person of Interest; The Good Wife; Star Trek: The Next

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Justin Jennings

Senior Curator, Archaeology of the Americas (South American Archaeology)

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Experts & Objects: Spring Has Sprung

Being at home has given Deborah Metsger, ROM’s Assistant Curator of Botany, the rare opportunity to watch spring unfold every day in her backyard. Join her as she explores what’s growing in her home

ROM Governors

Linda Hasenfratz

Board Director

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Interview with Bryce Kanbara

Hamilton-based visual artist and curator Bryce Kanbara was recently named one of eight recipients of the 2021 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts. Handed out by the Canada Council for

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Let’s talk legacy

ROM is a place of legacies. Deep learnings of our planet’s history as told by Earth’s earliest fossils. The opulence and pomp of pharaohs and monarchs cementing their status across the ages. Artists

coloured blocks approach a square with coloured sides

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Game: Polygrowth

In Polygrowth, the player begins as a prokaryote, represented by a triangle. As mutations fly toward the player, some manage to stick in the population; others don’t. Once enough mutations have been

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The Cloth that Changed the World

Made with novel cotton, vivid colours and exuberant design, the painted and printed cottons of India changed human history; they revolutionized art, fashion and science wherever they went around the

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Innovating Indian Chintz in the Face of Changing Environmental Conditions

Our current exhibition The Cloth That Changed the World: India’s Painted and Printed Cottons explores and celebrates handcrafted textiles made of cotton and natural dyes, known as “chintz.” Any

The main monastery buildings at Deir Mar Musa, Syria, from the South., the same view as the reconstructions in the blog.

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The Monastery of St Moses, Syria: The Buildings

The monastery of Deir Mar Musa in its heyday included hermitages spread around the landscape, but as today, the focus of the complex would have been the buildings, especially the chapel, home to the

Royal Ontario Museum Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. Bloor Street Entrance.

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Symposium Illuminates Egypt’s Sun King

On November 6 the Society for the Studies of Egyptian Antiquities’ 36th Annual Symposium explores Amenhotep III (Toronto, Ontario – October 18, 2010) Before Tutankhamen, Egypt's 18th dynasty was ruled

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500-Million-Year-Old Fossilized Brains of Stanleycaris Prompt a Rethink of the Evolution of Insects and Spiders

An ancient radiodont predator with three eyes offers key insights into the evolution of the arthropod body plan TORONTO, ON, July 8, 2022 – ROM (Royal Ontario Museum) revealed new research based on a

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Paleontologists trace origin of millipedes, crabs and insects to new 508 million-year-old sea creature with “can opener”-like pincers

Paleontologists at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and the University of Toronto (U of T) have uncovered a new fossil species that sheds light on the origin of mandibulates, the most abundant and