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How to display the past......
Ever wondered what goes in to the display you see in a museum gallery? I’m exploring some behind-the-scenes issues that shape what you see. This is the first of a series of posts that tie into a new course I’m teaching for University of Toronto graduate students called Greece and Rome at the
How to display the past….. Part 2: Collecting
In my last post I mentioned that various factors (sometimes pure chance) shaped a museum collection, and so affected the look of a public display. Here, I illustrate this by exploring the collection history of one particularly famous (even infamous) object. This ivory and gold figurine has
How to display the past.....Part 3: Curatorial Perspectives
As I mentioned in my first post, this behind-the-scenes tour is based on a course for University of Toronto graduates that I have been teaching this semester (my excuse for the long delay between blog posts). In the class the students heard two different experiences of putting together a permanent
The 'Goddess' and the Museum: The Early Years
The front pages of The Palace of Minos volume 4.1, published by Sir Arthur Evans in 1935 This is the first of a series of articles that I will be writing as part of the ‘Minoan’ Ivory Goddess Research Project about an icon of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) collection: the ivory and gold female
The 'Goddess' and the Museum: Museum Attitudes
An old ROM photograph of the ‘Minoan’ ivory figurine on display in front of the watercolour reproduction by Piet de Jong of the Minoan Bull-Leaper fresco from Knossos Photo: © ROM Here I continue the story of an icon of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) collection: the ivory and gold female
