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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)
Royal Ontario Museum Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. Bloor Street Entrance.
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ROM Marks Major Milestone with First Curator of Climate Change  

Photo credit: © 2021 Saty Namvar and Pratha Samyrajah TORONTO, November 15, 2021— Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) today announced the appointment of environmental scientist and researcher Dr. Soren
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ROMKids Show: The One About The Seasons

ACTIVITY: Leaf reliefs
Kiron Mukherjee.
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ROMKids Show: The One About Pyramids, Aliens, and the Truth

This time on the ROMKids Show we journey back in time to learn about pyramids all over the world! Archaeologist Dr. Craig Cipolla returns to the Show to explain why pyramids were built by so many
Blue Whale exhibition space at the Royal Ontario Museum.
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PUMP: A Natural History of the Heart from Horseshoe Crabs to Great Whales

Join ROM’s Burton Lim in a lively conversation with zoologist Bill Schutt on his new book PUMP: A Natural History of the Heart, which explores the mysteries and wonders of the literal heartbeat of
Myra J. Hird in front of a bookshelf.
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The Problem of (Micro)plastics

Join Queen’s University’s Myra J. Hird as she tackles the complicated issue of plastic waste, a problem that presses us to confront the environmental, political, economic, symbolic and cultural
Headshot of Fahmida Suleman
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Fahmida Suleman

Senior Curator, Islamic World
Black and white print showing a pumpkin.
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“Charming, remarkably wild, and humorous”: Yayoi Kusama’s Iconic Pumpkins

The pumpkin is an iconic symbol of Halloween, and carved jack-o'-lanterns are a familiar face of the season. Irish legend places the jack-o’-lantern in an in-between space of life and death, where the