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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
Royal Ontario Museum Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. Bloor Street Entrance.
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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
Royal Ontario Museum Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. Bloor Street Entrance.
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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
Tour of the Samuel European Galleries
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Museum Tour

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(left) Bukchon Hanok Village, Seoul, Korea. (middle) Jogakbo (Wrapping Cloth), Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1998.57, Gift of Mrs. Ann Witte; (right) Shin Min, Part-time Workers in Downward Dog Pose, 2014. Photo by Hyo Seop Jeong. Image courtesy of the artist.
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From the Edge: Contemporary Korean Culture

Celebrate Korea
Royal Ontario Museum Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. Bloor Street Entrance.
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Royal Ontario Museum to Close Temporarily Starting Saturday March 14

TORONTO, March 13, 2020, 4:00 p.m. — The Royal Ontario Museum announced today that it will temporarily close its doors to the public starting Saturday, March 14, 2020. Josh Basseches, Director & CEO
Three men working next to a shipping container that contains the Blue Whale bones and manure.
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Blue Whale Update

Blue Whale Update Last spring, a team from the ROM, including deputy director, Mark Engstrom, and assistant curator, Burton Lim, helped salvage one of two blue whales that had died in the Gulf of St
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
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McMichael Canadian Art Collection

The McMichael
17th-century Huron pot
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Wyandot Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics

Wyandot Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics By Richard Zane Smith and Catherine Tammaro This blog entry is the third in a series dedicated to Remembering Ancient Ceramic Traditions, a project
Jordan Harbour August 2015
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Curator Conversations: Aquatic Supervillains of the Great Lakes

Explore the current and upcoming threats to Ontario's freshwater ecosystems by invasive species with Department of Fisheries and Oceans Senior Aquatic Biologist David Marson and ROM's Nathan Lujan.
Stuffed passenger pigeons from the ROM collections sit on a table in the Gallery of Birds waiting to be installed in the new special exhibit
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First Peek at Empty Skies: The Legacy of the Passenger Pigeon

This weekend marks the opening of the ROM’s latest special exhibition, Empty Skies: the Passenger Pigeon Legacy . It’s a bittersweet exhibit for the ROM; On September 1st, 1914, almost exactly 100
1st Mt Sinai Hospital
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Yorkville

Evolving from an
Handspun and handwoven sari with tigers and plants.
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Art, Fashion, and Kalamkari Makers

Cloth in Art, Cloth in Fashion. Folded kalamkari fabrics in dye artist Ajit Das’s workshop possessed an innate ambiguity: when folded, they are pieces of fabric; when unfolded, they reveal themselves
Royal Ontario Museum Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. Bloor Street Entrance.
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New discovery sheds light on the mysterious family life of notorious sabre-toothed tiger

Like many of today’s millennials, adolescent Sabre-Toothed Cats stayed with family longer than expected TORONTO, January 7, 2021 – New research indicates adolescent offspring of the menacing sabre
A person sits alone in a wooden chair facing an art installation of glowing orange and red blocks arranged in a grid, each block featuring a human eye, set in a dimly lit industrial-style room with exposed beams and wooden flooring.
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This Place is a Message- Echoes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Art of Kei Ito

On August 6 and 9