Internationally renowned authors Christopher Hitchens, A.J. Jacobs and Camille Paglia address the Ten Commandments’ influence on life today The Royal Ontario Museum’s (ROM) engagement of the Dead Sea

In 2009, the late McMaster University professor James King donated 136 Japanese musha-e (warrior prints) to ROM, adding to the Museum’s already formidable collection of Japanese prints. As King and co

Burgess Shale Discovery: Fishing in the Cambrian A major fossil discovery sheds new light on the origin and development of the earliest vertebrates. A key piece in the puzzle of the evolution of

New Natural History Galleries opening in December 2008 The Teck Cominco Suite of Galleries: Earth's Treasures, scheduled to open at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in December 2008, showcases the ROM’s

Written by Piali Roy. A notorious murder case is one of the subjects of the ROM’s collection of mid-nineteenth century Kalighat paintings, an urban folk art style that developed around a popular Kali

Free concert celebrates Architectural Opening of ROM’s Michael Lee-Chin Crystal on June 2nd at 9:30pm The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) hosts A World of Possibilities,, a free outdoor concert on the ROM

Six new bat species in the Philippines has been announced by a team of researchers from Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and the Field Museum in Chicago.

After touring the world, the exhibition Egyptian Mummies: Ancient Lives. New Discoveries is making its final stop at the ROM, before the mummies and objects return to London. An exhibition such as

After weeks of arduous travel by plane, truck, boat, and foot, I had reached the top of Salto de Oso, a remote, rainforest-shrouded waterfall near the Brazilian-Venezuelan border. But the discovery I

As a DMV member for over 35 years, Josephine Breyfogle was always willing to take on new challenges—challenges to help advance the Museum’s mission and impact in the community.

For almost 12,000 years, the world has been a pretty stable place, at least in terms of geology. But scientists submit that with the intense acceleration of human activity over the last century, we’ve

Joan Thompson was a long-time ROM volunteer – one of the iconic ‘Three Joans’ who were founding members of the Volunteer Committee (now known as the Department of Museum Volunteers) in the late 1950s.

Terracotta statuette offers a glimpse into the history of men’s fashion. A Hellenistic terracotta statuette of a standing youth from about 300 BCE, on display in the ROM’s A.G. Leventis Gallery of

In a staff-only area of the Royal Ontario Museum, 30 steps from the droning buzz of the fossils lab, is the mycological herbarium. Inside the fluorescent-lit room, hidden amid rows and rows of many

A few years ago, University of Toronto’s Dr. Jennifer Stellar approached ROM with a proposal. She would bring a horde of undergrads to an exhibition, strap heartrate-monitoring watches onto them, and