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Tagish Lake meteorite.
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Looking Back at a New-Year Meteorite Discovery

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
Royal Ontario Museum Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. Bloor Street Entrance.
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ROM Announces 2022 Exhibition Highlights

TORONTO, ON ( December 20, 2021) — As the year draws to a close, ROM offers a first look at its preliminary lineup of special exhibitions spanning art, culture and nature scheduled for the 2022
Royal Ontario Museum Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. Bloor Street Entrance.
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ROM Holiday Schedule

TORONTO, Dec. 17, 2021 – Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) remains open during the holiday season, operating in accordance with Ontario Public Health guidelines. The Museum will be open on the following
Artwork
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Art Meets Science

Each fossil has an extraordinary story to tell, starting with the amazingly small chance that each one had to become frozen in time—normally, when organisms die, their remains quickly decompose and
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A Legacy Not Forgotten

Joan Thompson was a long-time ROM volunteer – one of the iconic ‘Three Joans’ who were founding members of the Volunteer Committee (now known as the Department of Museum Volunteers) in the late 1950s.
Promo photo of 2 people wearing masks
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Curator Conversations: Pandemic Masks HOAX Couture

Join ROM's Alexandra Palmer in conversation with Chris Tyrell and Jim Searle, the designers behind the Toronto fashion house Hoax Couture on how epidemics and pandemics from AIDS, SARS, and now COVID
Photo of Flora in grass field
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Curator Conversations: Celebrating Flora from Copenhagen to Kawartha Lakes

Join ROM's Deborah Metsger in conversation with botanist Dale Leadbeater, co-author of the newly published Flora of Kawartha Lakes, as they explore the rich tradition of botanical exploration and
Photo of 2 masks
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Curator Conversations: Don Kwan for Masks

Join ROM’s Wen-chien Cheng and Fahmida Suleman in conversation with Ottawa-based artist Don Kwan to explore his use of mask forms as part of his contemporary practice. Kwan’s art reflects on anti
A man walking down an aisle of shelving containing jarred fish specimens.
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Introducing ROM’s New Curator of Fishes

Dr. Nathan Lujan, ROM’s new Curator of Fishes, is a genuine adventurer scientist, the kind of man who spends a month in the Amazon, then returns home laden with new specimens and, much to his wife’s
Martin Gregus (Canada/Slovakia) shows polar bears in a different light as they come ashore in summer. On a hot summer’s day, two female polar bears took to the shallow intertidal waters to cool off and play. Martin used a drone to capture this moment. For him, the heart shape symbolizes the apparent sibling affection between them and "the love we as people owe to the natural world.
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Photographing Polar Bears

In the spring of 2020, as most Canadians holed up at home, hoarding toilet paper and binging bad news, Martin Gregus got a call from a Manitoba tour company. Covid was crushing their business. Was he
Kiron Mukherjee.
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ROMKids Show: The One About The Climate

This time on the ROMKids Show we learn about the importance of protecting our only planet! Shiff curator of climate change Dr Soren Brothers joins us to talk about rising sea levels, forest fires, and
Royal Ontario Museum Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. Bloor Street Entrance.
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Where Life on Earth Begins: ROM’s New Willner Madge Gallery, Dawn of Life

Highly-anticipated new permanent gallery explores the 4-billion-year history of early life on Earth TORONTO, ON, November 25, 2021 – On December 4, 2021, Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) unveils the Willner
Toy skeleton mariachi band
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Folkloric toys from Mexico

Toy-making is probably the most overlooked of Mexico’s rich popular art traditions. Despite exhibiting great ingenuity, imagination, and creativity, Mexican folkloric toys are sadly under-represented
Kiron Mukherjee.
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ROMKids Show: The One About Life

This time on the ROMKids Show we hop in a time machine and journey back to the dawn of life! Palaeontologist Dr Lucy Chang joins us to talk about the origins of life, evolution, and extinction. Then
Royal Ontario Museum Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. Bloor Street Entrance.
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ROM Appoints Adventurer Scientist and Catfish Expert to Curate  one of North America’s Largest Fish Collections  

Photo credit: Left: © Will O’Hare. Right: © David Brooks TORONTO, November 16, 2021 – In the wake of the COP26 climate summit and renewed global commitments to biodiversity, Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)