Guest blog by Chris Darling, Senior Curator of Entomology. The ROM is guided by a dual mandate, “The Arts of Man Through all the Years” and “The Record of Nature Through Countless Ages.” Many major

Children’s ‘act of kindness’ for our Canadian troops to be displayed at the ROM The Hero Canvas Project, presented by Dasha Flash’n’Friends™ is a community outreach program which has a mission of

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is celebrating its 50th year, and the exhibition showing this year's outstanding images of the natural world opened at the ROM last week. Wildlife

These works are on view in the Sir Christopher Ondaatje South Asian Gallery. Paintings from the Indian subcontinent are made with natural vegetable and mineral pigments on paper and thus are light

The horrors of the Mount Vesuvius eruption were buried under volcanic ash. Thankfully one scholarly young man wrote the story of his own survival. By: Douglas Thomson On the day Vesuvius erupted in AD

Senior Curator, Teck Endowed Chair of Mineralogy

An excavation at a site in South Africa has unearthed the 190-million-year-old dinosaur nesting site of the prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus—revealing significant clues about the evolution of

It can be pretty common in rural parts of Canada to find a pottery studio. Lots of Ontario cottagers have favorite potters that they visit in their cottage community. Many of the Gulf Islands in BC