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Royal Ontario Museum Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. Bloor Street Entrance.
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Premier McGuinty Announces the Dead Sea Scrolls at the ROM

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty today announced that the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) will present the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition, one of the most important exhibitions in the Museum’s history, from

Sculpture of pigs walking up and down a staircase
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The art of Won Lee

Won Lee

Sarah Elliott and Julie Tomé with From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea book cover.
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ROM Storytime: “From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea” by Kai Cheng Thom

Visit ROM Storytime for a discussion of children’s books for young learners with ROM educator Sarah Elliott. Joining Sarah this week is special co-host Julie Tomé, Bilingual Science Teacher at the ROM
Inuit community standing on and near a recently hunted bowhead whale on beach
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When Whaling is Your Tradition

Guest blog written by Environmental Visual Communication student Ursula McClintock. In some Indigenous communities around the world, whaling is as much a part of their tradition as my family’s turkey

Royal Ontario Museum Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. Bloor Street Entrance.
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Kicking an Old Can of Worms – the Origin of the Head in Annelids

New 508-million-year-old bristle worm species from British Columbia’s Burgess Shale wiggles into evolutionary history TORONTO, January 22, 2018— Researchers at the Royal Ontario Museum and the

Royal Ontario Museum Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. Bloor Street Entrance.
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Friday Night Live Returns to the ROM in Style

TORONTO, September 6, 2017— Friday Night Live (#FNLROM), presented by Ford Motor Company of Canada Ltd., commands the catwalk when it returns to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) with a Fashion-themed

ROM technician Oliver Haddrath extracting a DNA sample from blue whale tissue. Photo by Connor McDowell
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True Blue Detectives

Guest blog written by 2017 Environmental Visual Communication student Connor McDowell The Royal Ontario Museum has marked yet another first for science with its Blue Whale project. This achievement

Jacqueline Miller, Robert Henry and Paul Nader putting plugs in the major vessels of the blue whale heart. Photo by Sam Rose Phillips
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Blue Whale Update: A Whole Lotta Heart

Guest Blog written by 2015 Environmental Visual Communication student Sam Rose Phillips I smelt it before I saw it. Following my nose to what can only be oddly described as the smell of farm mixed

Royal Ontario Museum Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. Bloor Street Entrance.
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Walking in the Footsteps of 500-Million-year-old Burgess Shale Arthropods

Fossilized footprints lead researchers from the Royal Ontario Museum and the University of Saskatchewan and to an unexpected culprit Researchers from the University of Saskatchewan and Royal Ontario

Royal Ontario Museum Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. Bloor Street Entrance.
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ROM Burgess Shale collection solves 500 million-year-old mystery

Joint ROM and U of T research team classifies ancient species as related to modern cephalopods including squids and octopuses A study by researchers at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and the

Oil painting of paradise with the four elements
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Experience the Golden Age of Flemish Art with Saints, Sinners, Lovers, and Fools at ROM

Experience the Golden Age of Flemish Art with Saints, Sinners, Lovers, and Fools at ROM

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The Thrill of the Catch

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

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Soren Brothers

Allan and Helaine Shiff Curator of Climate Change

Witch hazel in full leaf providing shade.
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Posts from the Plants on the Plaza: May 21–June 3

The ROM gardens are lush and plants have filled in nicely in the past two weeks. The leaves on the witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) are fully expanded and providing shade. Canada anemone (Anemone

Sarah Elliott with Blackflies book cover.
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ROM Storytime: “Blackflies” by Robert Munsch

Visit ROM Storytime for a discussion of children’s books for young learners with ROM educator Sarah Elliott.

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