Leslie is a BIG fan of the museum and is always tweeting away when she visits so it was nice to meet her in real life last week at our 3rd #EmptyROM tour. Here are some of her wonderful photos! For

On August 19th we welcomed 10 lucky people for our first #emptyROM tour. The concept is not new, but new to Toronto. One of the photogrpahers that took part was Jamaal Merrick, better known as

North Atlantic right whales are large baleen whales, measuring 14 to 18 metres in length and weighing 30 to 70 metric tons or more. Being large, slow swimmers who could be pursued by small boats

In 2014-2016, ROM received a collection of rare photographs, documents and artifacts once belonging to Clement Williams, one of the first Europeans to live in the Kingdom of Ava (Kingdom of Burma)

In February of this year, just before the world shut down, I traveled to Cameroon for a three-week research expedition into the country’s robust art market. Though Cameroon is the African nation that

On January 18th, 2000, the Tagish Lake meteorite fell in northern British Columbia at approximately 8:43 a.m. local time. It produced a remarkable fireball as it streaked across the dawn sky, an event

The deep-sea angler fish is a rather odd looking fish. It can be found deep under water, up to 4,000 meters below the ocean’s surface. It is very difficult to survive at these depths, in dark, cold

The quillworked moccasins shown here were made in the early 20th century by Jenny Duck Chief, a Blackfoot woman from southern Alberta. They bear the image of the mythical Thunder Bird. According to

Nowruz, meaning “new day,” is the Persian New Year which celebrates the arrival of spring on March 20th or 21st each year. The holiday has roots in the ancient Zoroastrian or Parsi religion and has

A pop-up boutique by Indigenous Fashion Arts is showcasing clothing, home accents, and accessories by artists at the crossroads of art, fashion, and culture. IFA is a non-profit organization under

In the late 1980s, Treaty Beer was introduced to incite anti-treaty sentiment against the usufructuary rights of Wisconsin Ojibwe to spearfish on ceded lands. Dubbed “hate in a can,” Treaty Beer was

Guest Blog written by Environmental Visual Communication student Cassidy McAuliffe If you think you need years of experience to be a good photographer… think again! After viewing photos taken by youth