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

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

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

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

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

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

In September, 1971, the ROM opened the landmark exhibition Keep Me Warm One Night, a kaleidoscopic display of over 500 pieces of Canadian handweaving. It was the culmination of decades of pioneering

Sometimes museum bird collections can seem a bit archaic. Like an out of fashion Victorian hobby. Although not dusty or disarranged, these collections don’t always give the impression of something

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

When I walked in there, I felt such intense power … reminded of your connection to your history and your culture.” – Chief Stacey LaForme, Mississaugas of New Credit First Nation “Smart takes on

Written by Mark Bernards, Environmental Visual Communications student We all know someone who is terrified of spiders. Maybe it’s a friend, or a family member, or maybe it’s you! But I’m sure we can

Hi there! No, wait. If I’m going to be the resident Australian here at the ROM for the next month I suppose I should ham it up some. Let me try again. G’day! I’m Maxine and I’ll be taking over part of

Exhibition of 30 Finalists presented by ICC at the ROM Until January 29, 2012 The Institute for Contemporary Culture (ICC) at the ROM and the Kingston Arts Council are pleased to announce William

During his decades as an elementary school teacher, Thomas Charles Messecar Logan was devoted to inspiring brighter futures for young people. And though he passed away in March 2022, his impact will

From measuring the warming of our atmosphere and oceans to marking the changing patterns of life on Earth, thousands of scientists are working closely with massive amounts of data from innumerable