In Korean folk culture, people believed that epidemic disease was caused by a visitation of spirits, and they therefore hosted shamanist rituals to appease these guests in the hope that they would

When we published the ROM Field Guide to Butterflies of Ontario in 2014, we mentioned that the European Common Blue butterfly (Polyommatus icarus) was a species to watch for in Ontario. Native to

My fondest memory is the time spent with my father, listening to tales told of when he fished with his dad. He has his own fishing traditions and rituals, which he passed on to me and I now pass on to

Mass Extinctions. Pandemics. Climate change. Today, Earth faces an array of interlocking crises with potentially devastating consequences. But for humanity to respond effectively, we must first

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At ROM a world of wonder awaits visitors this holiday season from December 26 to January 7. TORONTO, December 5, 2023 – Experience the best of the season with friends and family during ROM for the

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

In lieu of a baby, Leslie McCue cradled a plush toy shark. This was in 2018, back when Leslie, a member of the Mississaugas of Curve Lake First Nation, was working as an Indigenous Museum Educator

What does it mean to designate a new epoch defined by human activity? According to Soren Brothers, the Allan and Helaine Shiff Curator of Climate Change, it is a chance to define our fundamental