Royal Ontario Museum
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Discover the tools and techniques Assistant Curator of Mammalogy, Burton Lim uses in the field and the important role photography plays in research and documenting species diversity.

Even though it may feel like the last time you visited the ROM dinosaurs actually roamed the Earth, we’re excited to open our doors once again and welcome you back to the Museum. We’ll be re-opening Thursday, July 9 to Members and Saturday, July 11 to the public. Timed tickets will be go on sale July 6 for Members and July 7 for the public. Please note that only permanent galleries will be open at this time, and while we look forward to welcoming you back to #ROMwinnie in th...e near future we are still hard at work making it safe for you and your family. We’re following the advice of public health authorities and making every effort to ensure visits are enjoyable, entertaining and, above all, safe. As we re-open the ROM to the public, we ask you to work with us to keep the Museum a safe place for yourself, for all visitors and for our staff by carefully reading the guidelines available through the link below. We understand that some of you may not feel comfortable visiting the Museum just yet, so we will be continuing to offer virtual activities and other online programs with #ROMatHome.

Don't miss our mid-week offer! Safe spaces Timed Entry

Step behind the scenes into the Museum’s mineral and meteorite collection with ROM mineralogy technician Veronica DiCecco, and find out what specimens can tell us about the formation of our solar system.

Fantastic opportunity for keen mineral collectors to hear from our very own Katherine Dunnell!

Tomorrow at 2pm on Instagram Live- Entomologist Antonia Guidotti will answer our questions about how spiders & bugs benefit the world around us. Then we’ll make our own oil pastel and watercolour art to remind us that insects aren’t that scary after all! https://bit.ly/31JVcpe

Only 2 dinosaur species are known to have had wings made out of stretched skin, like bats. Unlike bats, these dinos were capable of only limited gliding between trees. That bat-winged gliding turned out to be a dead-end along the path to the evolution of flight. They are a failed experiment."

A game of hide and seek to end the week. Catch up with your pals in the Hundred Acre Wood at #ROMwinnie! Please be sure to read our Visitor Guidelines to learn about the steps we're taking to make your visit as safe and enjoyable as possible. : https://www.rom.on.ca//exhibitions/winnie-the-pooh-explori

The Tree Cookie refresh is a prime example of grassroots collaboration guiding institutional change. This new interpretation allows us to move away from a purely Euro-centric view and focus on the life cycle of the Douglas fir and the original Nuu-chah-nulth ecosystem that it is a part of.

As Assistant Curator of Botany, Deborah Metsger oversees the ROM’s extensive botanical collections & assists other curators with identifying depictions of plants in paintings and as motifs on decorative objects ceramics, glass & especially on textiles. https://bit.ly/31G7sqH