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Worn: Shaping Black Feminine Identity

Worn: Shaping Black Feminine Identity by Vancouver based craft artist Karin Jones is the first contemporary art installation presented as part of the Of Africa project. This site-specific installation

ROM Artist Georgia Guenther gives a passenger pigeon mount a final check before installing it into the exhibit

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Empty Skies: Behind-the-Scenes - Recreating Passenger Pigeon Habitat

Guest blog post by environmental visual communication student Justine DiCesare, with photos by Vincent Luk During my summer placement as an environmental visual communication student with ROM

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

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I found what looks like a tiny “caterpillar” in my home. What is it?

Let’s take a look at a common critter that share our space. Amazingly, over 500 species of arthropods have been recorded in houses! One of our most common household guests is the carpet beetle. The

Two women examine a fish at an identification workshop.

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2-Day Species-at-Risk Workshop

If you are a

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Project: Big Shark, Big Loss, Big Impact: Sharks Change Prey Behaviour

Play this predator-prey simulation game with your students to discover how important sharks are in affecting the behaviour of other animals in their ecosystems.

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Museum Week 2017

#MuseumWeek is an international online event celebrating and showcasing all things from cultural institutions over 7 days, 7 themes, 7 hashtags! Museum Week challenges Museums to share content based

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Response to Muslim Call to Prayer - A Component of John Oswald’s A Time to Hear for Here

It has been reported that the Muslim call to prayer was broadcast loudly over the Royal Ontario Museum’s PA system, followed by an announcement inviting visitors to join in prayer. What was heard was

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WonderWorks

Where play meets learning.

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Tattoos

For Belonging. For Devotion. For Life. The practice of tattooing has evolved through cultural exchanges around the world, from those on the fringes of society to mainstream groups, from subculture

A close up shot of the blue whales baleen.

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Kissing the Cod!

By Jacqueline Waters Environmental Visual Communication graduate (2013), For the Centre of Discovery in Biodiversity, Royal Ontario Museum Well it’s official we’ve been screeched in and the team and I

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Holding the Past Close - The Many Shapes of South Asian Histories

In today’s multi-media world, how are the histories of cultures captured, archived, and shared? Join us for an in-person conversation, moderated by Deepali Dewan, that takes a closer look at the use

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Weapon Wednesday: Bagh Nakh--making humans into tigers

Written by Aruna Panday, Ph.D Candidate York University, Co-Chair Friends of South Asia Committee, and ROM curatorial intern. Bagh nakh (tiger-claw weapon), lacquered steel, India, 19th century, ROM

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Age Before Beauty: The Acasta Gneiss and Jack Hills Conglomerate

Submitted by Vincent Vertolli, Assistant Curator Geology The Jack Hills Conglomerate, a 3,000 million year old sedimentary rock from which the oldest, at 4,200 million years, terrestrial minerals have