Meteorites fall to earth in the Newmarket, Ontario area The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and The University of Western Ontario (UWO) are looking for help from local residents in recovering a meteorite

A fearsome ankylosaur finds a permanent home in ROM’s dinosaur gallery.

By Jean-Bernard Caron, Senior Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology, Royal Ontario Museum Today, the ROM is announcing a spectacular new species from the world-famous Burgess Shale site in Yoho

More than a decade after the Afghan war began in 2001, Shamsia Hassani was promulgated to international fame as one of Afghanistan’s first female graffiti artists. Where the violence of war had

Metallica’s Kirk Hammett on the manifestation of fear and uncertainty in art. Kirk Hammett is known the world over as the lead guitarist of one of the most successful metal bands of all time. Given

The Royal Ontario Museum is deeply saddened by the death of Galen Weston, our dear friend, a visionary leader renowned for his professional acumen and his expansive philanthropy, and a treasured

A closer look at the dubious medical practice from the early 19th century. Bloodletting for medical cures can be traced as far back as 3,000 years ago. In Ancient Greece, it was thought that disease

The Globe and Mail published a story today on Renaissance ROM, an expansion project that was supported by a philanthropic campaign which ran from 2002 to 2010. The campaign supported the addition of

ᕝᕌᓐᒃᓕᓐᒨᖓᔪᓂᒃ ᑐᑭᓯᓂᐊᖃᑎᒌᒃᑐᐃᑦ ᐱᓇᓱᐊᖃᑎᒋᔭᖏᑦᑕ ᓯᓚᑖᒍᖅᑐᑦ ᑲᑎᑎᑦᓯᕗᖅ 10-ᓂᒃ ᑕᑯᔭᒐᖃᕐᕕᐅᔪᓂᒃ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ ᐱᓇᓱᐊᖅᑕᐅᔪᒥᒃ ᓴᕿᔮᖅᑎᑦᓯᖃᑎᒌᖕᓂᐊᕐᖢᑎᒃ ᕝᕌᓐᒃᓕᓐ ᐊᐅᓛᕐᓂᕆᔭᒥᓂᖏᑦ ᓴᕿᑦᑕᖅᑐᓂᒃ ᓄᐃᑕᑎᑦᓯᓗᑎᒃ ᐱᓇᓱᐊᕐᓂᖃᕐᓂᐊᖅᑐᑦ ᑲᑐᑎᓗᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᔭᒐᖃᕐᕖᑦ ᓴᕿᔮᖅᑎᑦᓯᓗᑎᒃ ᐅᑭᐅᒥᑦ 2016

At an Iris van Herpen show, impassive models walk the runway in garments like a 3-D printed polyamide suit that more resembles a bony exoskeleton, a dress sculpted from billows of metal gauze and cow

Since 2004 I had walked the Qalamoun mountains around the monastery of Deir Mar Musa looking for archaeological features to record. In all that time I found one lithic, a stone tool from humanity’s

Using wax to create giant blackfly and mosquito models in Bloodsuckers: Legends to Leeches. If you’ve been to the ROM’s recent exhibition Bloodsuckers: Legends to Leeches, you’ve encountered the

I stood, transfixed, at the intriguing yet disturbing bust in the Zodiac display inside ROM’s China gallery. My eyes followed the intricately carved tiger head seemingly consuming a human head, that

Photograph of educated man in his study by W. H. Grant, gelatin silver print, China, c. 1900. ROM 2011.79.20. Gift in memory of Rev. Dr. William Harvey Grant and Dr. Susannah McCalla Grant, M. D. View

Rekindling the innate understanding that our fates are closely interwoven with everyone and everything on this planet