January 2017
Monthly Archive: January 2017
Three cheers for Burgess Shale’ newest oddball animal, a worm with waving “arms”
By Jean-Bernard Caron, Senior Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology, Royal Ontario Museum
Sports et divertissements: a unique resource for researchers in design history
![Portfolio cover of Sports et divertissements (Paris: Publications Lucien Vogel, 1923). Musical score by Erik Satie, illustrations by Charles Martin, hand-coloured by Jules Saudé. Royal Ontario Museum, Rare Book M25 .S27 S7 1923 (Image: ROM2017_15496_1) Portfolio cover of Sports et divertissements](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/rom2017_15496_1_resized.jpg?itok=iajDppKA)
Toronto based researcher, illustrator and textile artist, Ketzia Sherman, discusses
#ThrowbackThursday: Stippling the Walls
!["Frank finishing painting the weaving shed."](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/weaving-shed.png?itok=kTUXn1tN)
In September, 1971, the ROM opened the landmark exhibition Keep Me Warm One Night, a kaleidoscopic display of over 500 pieces of Canadian handweaving. It was the culmination of decades of pioneering research and collecting by the ROM curatorial powerhouse duo ‘Burnham and Burnham’, aka Dorothy K. Burnham and Harold B. Burnham.
Archaeological Approaches to Ceramics
![Huron pottery Huron pottery from ROM's New World Archaeology collection](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/b2_f6.jpg?itok=gZz2zpnn)
Back in October, we posted the first in a series of blog entries dedicated to ROM curator, Craig Cipolla’s collaborative research project with Wyandot artists Richard Zane Smith and Catherine Tammaro entitled, “Remembering Ancient Pottery Traditions.” We encourage readers to look back and review the general goals of the project before diving into this post. In this entry we report on the specific ceramic collections that we viewed and discussed with Richard and Catherine, summarizing typical archaeological approaches to Huron ceramics.
The Book of Life
![These rock layers near Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, hold Canada’s oldest dinosaurs. They are near the boundary of two chapters of geologic time – the Triassic and Jurassic Periods of the Mesozoic Era. (Photo by Victoria Arbour) These rock layers near Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, hold Canada’s oldest dinosaurs. They are near the boundary of two chapters of geologic time – the Triassic and Jurassic Periods of the Mesozoic Era. (Photo by Victoria Arbour)](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/2017_01_18_image_for_blog_wasson.jpg?itok=zMB1W-Dr)
By Dr. Victoria Arbour, ROM Postdoctoral Researcher
Mystery of conical fossils solved, after 175 years
![A photo of me holding a fossil at Marble Canyon, Kootenay National Park in 2014. Student holding shale slabs with fossils.](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/joseph-moysiuk_fieldwork.jpg?itok=vvDFFhZE)
My name is Joe Moysiuk, I am a 20-year-old undergraduate student at the University of Toronto enrolled in both the departments of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Earth Sciences. I am excited to announce that a research paper which I am lead author of, titled Hyoliths are Palaeozoic lophophorates, has recently been published by the journal Nature This paper was based primarily on newly discovered fossils housed in the ROM’s invertebrate palaeontology collections.
Science communication at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto and the Natural History Museum, London: two experts compare notes
![An exciting invitation posted on the wall at the Natural History Museum, in London, UK. An image of text panel in a museum, which reads: This is where the boundaries between the public galleries and behind-the-scenes science are blurred. Come in and explore.](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/20160830-img_0409.jpg?itok=G2puIXML)
Guest blog by recent EVC grad Temira Bruce comparing opinions from science communicators at museums in Toronto and London, UK, on the how the way in which museums communicate science to their visitors is changing.
ROM Fossils & Evolution kicks off #Fossil150!
![](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/3._canadian_archean_stromatolite.jpg?itok=mRIdJSNF)
Posted by: Marianne Mader & David Evans
#ThrowbackThursday: Needle and Thread
!["Judy takes a crease out of a coverlet after it is hanging up."](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/ironing.jpg?itok=ZRYTMHBe)
In September, 1971, the ROM opened the landmark exhibition Keep Me Warm One Night, a kaleidoscopic display of over 500 pieces of Canadian handweaving. It was the culmination of decades of pioneering research and collecting by the ROM curatorial powerhouse duo ‘Burnham and Burnham’, aka Dorothy K. Burnham and Harold B. Burnham.