Behind-the-scenes
Monthly Archive: December Behi
Museums, stories and things.
![Image of visitors in the Birds Gallery Visitors in the Birds Gallery](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/birds169.jpg?itok=EX0PRzwP)
Get ready for an insider's look at the ROM from someone who's usually very far outside of it.
The Making of Mesopotamia
Take a look behind the scenes as we prepare for the opening of the Mesopotamia exhibition on June 22.
Behind the Camera: ROM Images creation
![ROM Photographer Brian Boyle using fibre optic lighting to photograph a monazite specimen. Photo Credit: Tiffany Cuthbert Portrait of ROM photographer Brian Boyle, by Tiffany Cuthbert](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/rom2011_11799_4_0.jpg?itok=HepLMenG)
The Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival starts today which makes May a busy month for Brian Boyle the ROM’s Senior Photographer.
How to display the past.....Part 3: Curatorial Perspectives
How do curators put together a museum display? Find out in my third installment of this behind-the-scenes tour.
ROM Archaeology Weekend
![Excavation at Kalavasos in Cyprus Archaeologists excavating in Cyprus](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/kalavasos_cyprus_excavation_2012_2.jpg?itok=wRmCiRE7)
ROM Archaeology weekend, April 13-14 2013, will feature local archaeologists who work across Canada and around the world.
Our first Google+ Hangout on Air
![Google+ Hangout on Air, photo courtesy of Brennan Caverhill. Google+ Hangout on Air, photo courtesy of Brennan Caverhill.](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/2013-04-02_007.jpg?itok=PIFSpqjk)
Yesterday the ROM held our first Google+ Hangout on Air, the first museum in Canada to do so. There's more to come every Tuesday and Thursday at Noon EST until April 30th.
Better than Saturday morning cartoons
![One-year-old Peter One-year-old Peter](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/letsrom_blog.jpg?itok=TMA7j0xJ)
One-year-old Peter likes looking at the paper with his parents on Saturday mornings (or better yet, ripping it apart, says his dad). This past weekend he went straight for the latest copy of Let’s ROM and started flipping through it with a look of intense concentration on his face. The ROM’s March Break offerings (and the chance to meet dino mascots Gertie and Gordo) must have appealed to Peter and he wasn’t alone; the Museum welcomed 66,006 visitors—a March break attendance record— this past week for its special interactive programming.
Komodo Dragon Preparation, Step 3: Cleaning and Articulating the Bones
![Removing the last of the tissue from the Komodo Dragon skull A volunteer cleans the remaining tissue from the Komodo Dragon skull](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/dsc02458.jpg?itok=TS4aODN0)
The final stages of preparing Doni, the Komodo Dragon for display
How to display the past….. Part 2: Collecting
This instalment of my behind-the-scenes tour of what shapes a museum display began as an example of how museum collections are formed, but it may develop into a detective story as you’ll see…..