#royal-ontario-museum — Public Fediverse posts

Two historic quilts on new stamp issue celebrate quilt-making in Canada

New stamps show quilts are stories well told, one stitch at a time FLORENCEVILLE, NB, Sept. 10, 2026…
#Canada #CanadaPost #Patchworkquilt #quilt #RoyalOntarioMuseum #stampbooklet #stampimage #stampissue
https://www.europesays.com/canada/203607/

The Art Newspaper: Royal Ontario Museum acquires collection of nearly 600 Arab textiles and artefacts. “The group of acquired objects, the Widad Kawar Collection of Arab Dress and Heritage Arts, comprises almost 600 garments, historic objects and everyday accessories from Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates and […]

We've just uploaded the recordings from our last Friday evening talk series!

We have a short talk by Mona Trick about the Royal Ontario Museum's new Early Life Exhibit and a longer talk by Dr. Jon Noad about collecting dinosaur stamps!

Links:
Mona Trick - Royal Ontario Museum: Early Life Exhibit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHfxiDR6wjI
Dr. Jon Noad - Going Postal: Dinosaur Stamps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkiARmh5PEA

#palaeontology #paleontology #ab #alberta #fossils #stamps #dinosaurs #ontario #royalontariomuseum

Alguns dias em Toronto https://viajarcomale.com.br/countries/canada/cities/toronto/posts/2
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#canada #ontario #cntower #cntowertoronto #casaloma #royalontariomuseum #torontozoo #poutine #toronto #comida

Some days in Toronto https://travelwithalefe.com/countries/canada/cities/toronto/posts/2
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#canada #ontario #cntower #cntowertoronto #casaloma #royalontariomuseum #torontozoo #poutine #food #toronto

I came out of the #RoyalOntarioMuseum last Saturday to find this crew playing a bright set on the sidewalk outside.
They are the #TrashPandaBrass and they’re great!
As we walked away I said to a friend, “and that’s why I got a trombone.”

I then bought their EP (Opposable Thumbs) and have listened to it … many times.

#Toronto #LGBTQ2IA #music #PlayItLoud #Brass #Mellophone #Trombone #Sousaphone #TrashPandas #raccoon #TorontoMascot

https://www.trashpandabrass.com

My girlfriend and I went to Toronto for the weekend. Here are some pictures

#Toronto #CNTower #RipleyAquarium #RoyalOntarioMuseum

Happy Birthday to the Royal Ontario Museum! They’re celebrating 110 years of ROM this weekend, Saturday, March 23 and Sunday, March 24, with FREE admission to the entire museum (including special exhibitions)! 🥳

@ROMtoronto #museums #Canada #RoyalOntarioMuseum #ROM

The Tyee: Life-Saving Love: The Story of Farley Mowat and Claire Wheeler https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/11/21/Life-Saving-Love-Farley-Mowat-Claire-Wheeler/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #FarleyandClaire:ALoveStory #HappyAdventuresailboat #SaturdayNightmagazine #DavidSuzukiInstitute #FarleyandClaireMowat #GabrielGarcíaMárquez #McMasterUniversity #RoyalOntarioMuseum #Keewatinterritory #FarleyMowatInuit #ThomasMcIlwraith #UnholyOrdersbook #PeopleoftheDeer #St-PierreIsland #GreystoneBooks

This past week I checked out the exhibit "Death: Life's Greatest Mystery" at the Royal Ontario Museum. I found it a very calming and contemplative experience. More thoughts and photos at: https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/3985811

#RoyalOntarioMuseum #death #museum #exhibit #Toronto

#SIlentSunday #Dinosaurs #Toronto #RoyalOntarioMuseum #ROM #Fossil #Hadrosaur

This afternoon we used our Royal Ontario Museum memberships to go see "T. rex: The Ultimate Predator" before it ends on September 4. It had lots of great interactive elements, but for me it always comes down to finding the displays labelled "real fossil" and just standing there, taking a moment to be with someone who lived millions of years before.
#RoyalOntarioMuseum #ROM #Toronto #Museum #Dinosaurs #Trex

Global News BC: World’s oldest swimming jellyfish found in B.C.’s Burgess Shale https://globalnews.ca/news/9875211/oldest-jellyfish-burgess-shale-fossil/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #World'soldestjellyfish #BurgessShalejellyfish #Oldestjellyfishfossil #BurgessShalefossil #RoyalOntarioMuseum #Oldestjellyfish #BurgessShale #Science #Canada

OMG. Kate Strasdin posted this to IG, but I had to go look at the #RoyalOntarioMuseum for it. That silver lace! That embroidery! Zounds!

#TextileHistory #BobbinLace

Girl's #corset bodice https://collections.rom.on.ca/objects/382156/girls-corset-bodice

The building is very cool though... #RoyalOntarioMuseum #ROM #Toronto

Waiting for the next exhibit? A lone stool sits in a focused light on a wooden floor. The walls behind are lit in columns of red. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario. #silentsunday #photography #ROM #RoyalOntarioMuseum #Toronto #Ontario #museum

Presumably some designer at the #RoyalOntarioMuseum made this graphic for the Blue Whale exhibit at the Edmonton Telus World of Science. To me — a person who reads from left to right — it seems backwards. You may disagree.

This is for a short time a test of a bot which should remind me to add ALT text to my images. I will do an edit once I see that reply.

Within minutes, @alt_text notified me the ALT text was missing. Thanks.

Weird Marketplace Find of the Day. "Gift of the Gods" ROM (Royal Ontario Museum) crate. Fell off of a truck??!! The ROM decided not to return the artifact??!! #WeirdMarketplace #ROM #RoyalOntarioMuseum #GiftOfTheGods #BuyAndSell

#FossilAdventCalendar Day 14

This #fossil of Albertonia cupidinia, from Wapiti Lake, #BritishColumbia 🇨🇦 and displayed in the #RoyalOntarioMuseum, comes from an important time in fish #evolution. It was during the #Triassic Period, as dinosaurs and mammals were getting their start on land, that #ray-finned fish (the group that dominates our planet's #waters today) were really starting to take off. Its large fins supported by thin bony rays show that Albertonia was was part of this #radiation.

#FossilAdventCalendar Day 13
#TerrestrialTuesday

#BritishColumbia is full of #lagerstätten (sites of exceptional #fossil #preservation), including the sites of the #Eocene #Okanagan. Here, a series of #ancient #lakes preserve #fossils of #leaves, #insects, and the oldest #salmon. Rarest of all are #arachnids: this fossil of the #spider Palaeoperenethis thaleri in the #RoyalOntarioMuseum is the only one of its kind, but it's #preserved well enough to identify it as a relative of fishing #spiders

#FossilAdventCalendar Day 12
#MarineLifeMonday

#BritishColumbia's 🇨🇦 #BurgessShale is one of our planet's most important important (and beautiful) #fossil sites. Sitting high in #BC's #RockyMountains, it's a window into the early evolution of #animals. Among its weird wonders is Hallucigenia (seen here in fossil and sculpture form at the #RoyalOntarioMuseum), a distant relative of #arthropods so unlike anything alive today that for years it was reconstructed upside down and backwards.

#FossilAdventCalendar Day 6
#TerrestrialTuesday

This #fossil, Erpetonyx aresnaultorum from the #RoyalOntarioMuseum, may look a bit like a #lizard, but it's something else entirely. Uncovered from the #Carboniferous #EgmontBay Formation on #PrinceEdwardIsland 🇨🇦, it's one of the oldest #parareptiles, a lineage of #animals related to but distinct from true #reptiles. While they were among the first vertebrates to transition to life on land, parareptiles went #extinct over 200 million years ago.

#FossilAdventCalendar Day 5
#MarineLifeMonday

Most #fish species alive today, from #salmon to #guppies, belong to a single group. In the #Devonian, though, many lineages were abundant. #Quebec's 🇨🇦 #ParcNationalDeMiguasha provides a glimpse of this #biodiversity, which includes #lungfish such as Scaumenacia curta, shown here in the #RoyalOntarioMuseum. Their lobed fins contain many of the same #bones as our arms, evidence that lungfish are much more closely related to us than to most other fish.

#FossilAdventCalendar Day 4

The oddest and - at over 560 million years in age - oldest #fossil featured in this #AdventCalendar is Fractofusus misrai from #Newfoundland 🇨🇦. This specimen in the #RoyalOntarioMuseum is from #MistakenPoint, one of the sites preserving the #Ediacaran #biota, the term for some of our planet's oldest #multicellular #fossils. Lots of questions remain about these ancient enigmas, among them, were #Ediacarans #animals or members of a different branch of the tree of life?

#FossilAdventCalendar Day 3

We're jumping to the #Maritimes today to celebrate one of #Canada's 🇨🇦 most important #fossil sites. #NovaScotia's #JogginsFossilCliffs are a window into the #Carboniferous, a period that saw the spread of a new #biome: #forests. This #fossilized #tree on display at the #RoyalOntarioMuseum is a #lycopsid, a super-sized relative of living #ClubMosses that, along with #cycads, #ferns, and early relatives of #seed #plants, made up the #flora of the #Joggins #forest.

#FossilAdventCalendar Day 2
#FossilFriday

Heading north along #Ontario's 🇨🇦 #NiagaraEscarpment brings us to the #BrucePeninsula, where these #Silurian #scorpions were found. Displayed in and named by scientists at the #RoyalOntarioMuseum, Eramoscorpius brucensis lived in the #ocean, but its relatives were among the first #animals on land. Its sturdy legs and the locality at which these #fossils were found hint that this #marine #scorpion may have already been venturing onto #beaches to #molt.

#FossilAdventCalendar Day 1

We begin our journey north in #Ontario, #Canada 🇨🇦 with the #Welland #mastodon (Mammut americanum) unearthed close to #NiagaraFalls and exhibited in the #RoyalOntarioMuseum. Like all #proboscideans - the group that also includes #elephants - #mastodons had #tusks, but one is missing from this individual. The fact that the socket for its left tusk is closed suggests that this was a birth defect rather than the result of injury or disease.

I don’t wish to be buried. But if I *am* buried, I hope someone will tuck a perfect little glazed table set with my favorite meal in my tomb along with my bones. (ancient Chinese grave goods, from the #royalontariomuseum ) #foodhistory #fishdinner #chinesehistory

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Meteorites. Middle two photos are Lunar and Martian collection. For the record, getting a trip of this rock is on my bucket list. (Matt, at #SpaceX, can you pick up the pace please ;)

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Beautifully decorated Korean pottery.

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Ming Dynasty. #ROM has a very impressive collection and very nicely displayed.

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At the Royal Ontario Museum #ROM this morning!

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