Willner Madge Gallery, Dawn of Life | | Dawn of Life Gallery Family Day Dec 5
Bring the kids for a fun-filled family Sunday! Meet members of the team who brought the fascinating new Willner Madge Gallery, Dawn of Life to life. Talk with real palaeontologists, artists, model and cast makers, Indigenous story tellers, and more. Learn about preparing fossils and building a new gallery from scratch. Explore activity stations throughout the Museum, hear creation stories in the First Peoples Gallery, and get hands-on to create themed arts and crafts. Museum adventure awaits the eager and curious! | | Reimagining the First Animals | | Live at ROM Dec 7
Explore the spectacular and immersive worlds featured in the Willner Madge Gallery, Dawn of Life through the lens of the documentary First Animals. From the mountains of Kootenay National Park to the laboratories of ROM, join Dr. Jean-Bernard Caron, and others featured in the documentary as they discuss the relevance of bringing the animals of the Burgess Shale to life for a modern audience. | | Wildlife Photographer of the Year | | On Now
The longest-running and most prestigious nature photography competition in the world returns to ROM for the ninth year in a row. The exhibition's stunning images allow visitors to experience nature in vivid detail and get up close to some of the world's most extraordinary species, the lives they live, and the challenges they face.
Wildlife Photographer of the Year is developed and produced by the Natural History Museum, London. | | Folkloric toys from Mexico | | Exhibiting great ingenuity, imagination, and creativity, these delightful hand-made toys became a rarity in Mexico as children came to prefer mass-produced plastic toys that could be acquired at competitive prices. | |
This fish, called Eusthenopteron fordii, had bones in its fins that are the same bones used eventually by amphibians, reptiles, and mammals to walk on land. Images ©Royal Ontario Museum: (Fossil) Jean-Bernard Caron; (Paleoart) Danielle Dufault.
Skeleton mariachi band. From the Collection of Hanni Sager, Ayako Ellen Anderson, and Creative Spirit Art Centre. ROM 2020.79.40.1. Photograph by Arni Brownstone.
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