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Loon about to take flight.
Article

A water dance of loons

The Canadian loons are back in season. When the long cold spring finally ends, my mind turns to the summer season of camping and rustic cabins. It’s at this point that thoughts of loons start to fill
A museum preparator collects the Species At Risk that will be added to the Empty Skies Passenger Pigeon exhibit
Article

Empty Skies: Who Are the Species At Risk?

In the case across from the Passenger Pigeons in the new Empty Skies exhibit (August 2014 - April 2015), eleven different Species At Risk birds are on display. But who are these species? What are
The Art of Collecting
Exhibition

The Art of Collecting

The Art of Collecting highlights over one hundred works selected from the seven thousand artifacts acquired by the Museum’s European Department over the last 15 years. Displaying significant examples
A face mask and turban on a bust.
Resource

Functional Face Masks by AKaurBrand

How do you wear a mask over a turban or headdress that covers your ears? For Toronto-based designer Sanjeet Kaur, this challenge was prompted by her husband working on the frontlines during the
Resource

Story of Nubia

This short documentary tells the story of Nubia and the civilization that flourished in the Nile Valley for thousands of years and particularly between 800 BC and 400 AD. The Galleries of Africa
Giant Squid at the ROM
Resource

Palaeontologists solve mystery of 500 million-year-old squid-like carnivore

A study by Martin Smith of the University of Toronto and Jean-Bernard Caron of the Royal Ontario Museum sheds new light on a previously unclassifiable 500 million-year-old squid-like carnivore known
Indigo-dyed Indian chintz of mixed flower sprays.
Exhibition

Florals

Explore an era of European botanical discovery and its cultural connections in Florals: Desire and Design. With world-wide exploration and the economic expansion of the 1700s came a new-found
A guy in a plaid shirt walking with a girl in a wheelchair looking at museum collections at ROM
Event

Doors Open Toronto

As part of Doors
The gate at Birkenau. Image @ Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum.
Page

Foreign Cultural Objects Immunity From Seizure for Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away

Foreign Cultural Objects Immunity From Seizure for Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away
Front cover of the book Mysteries of Ancient Ukraine
Book

Mysteries of Ancient Ukraine: The Remarkable Trypilian Culture (5400-2700 BC)

Nestled in the forest steppes of what is now Ukraine, the Neolithic-Bronze Age culture known as Trypilia built the largest settlements in Old Europe, some with an estimated population of 10,000 to 15
Tightrope in Boxes.
Exhibition

Elias Sime

Contemporary Ethiopian artist Elias Sime presents his intricately woven and densely layered artworks that draw upon their materiality to comment on humanity, ecological sustainability, and the
Headdress, Small Skills, Special Effects: Unusual Chinese Works of Art
Exhibition

Small Skills, Special Effects

Imagine you were a craftsman during China’s Qing Dynasty several hundred years ago. You would create paintings, fans, snuff bottles or amulets. Despite your humble status, you would endeavour to make
ICC_Institute for Contemporary Culture
Exhibition

Observance and Memorial

From 1975-1979, Cambodia endured one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century under the rule of the Khmer Rouge. 103 photographic prints developed from original negatives abandoned at the S-21
A kid holding up a book.
Event

Guild of Immortals Event

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Headshot of Dr. Soren Brothers
Curator

Soren Brothers

Allan and Helaine Shiff Curator of Climate Change