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Exhibit A: Light of the Desert Cerussite Gem
At 900 carats, this magnificent gemstone is the world's largest faceted specimen of the mineral cerussite. Cerussite, a lead carbonate mineral, is extremely sensitive to heat and vibration—even warmth from the palm of a hand can damage it. Just imagine how much time and care the gem cutter
New to ROM: Nao Uda, Words Fail Me, 2013-15
Nao Uda, born in Yokohama in 1983, is a contemporary Japanese artist who works in drawings, photography, and paintings. Having received her BFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2007, Nao lived in Toronto as an artist in residence at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Center thanks to a
Behind the Blitz: Become the Biodiversity
Blog by Stacey Lee Kerr, Biodiversity Storyteller / Creative Producer for the ROM's Centre for Biodiversity At this year's Ontario BioBlitz, things are set to get a little wild... we've invited everyone to dress up as an Ontario species for our NatureFest Costume Contest. But what
ROM Celebrates National Aboriginal Day!
On June 21 st, the ROM Learning Department began National Aboriginal Day celebrations with Sweet Grass cleanse to start the day off in a good, positive way led by Justin Chiblow, Kiowa Wind Memorial Indigenous Youth Intern. Dr. Bob Phillips, Mi`Kmaq Elder, led an opening prayer for registered
Go with the Flow: Technology & Early Glass
Glass is probably the most fluid of solids. Looking at blown glass, such as that in the ROM's Chihuly exhibition, is like watching movement made still. If you look carefully at the handles of the perfectly preserved handles of this Roman glass vase from Syria (above), it looks as though it is
Were These Peruvian Mummies Climate Change Nomads?
Words and photos by Lisa Milosavljevic ROM Ancient (@ROMAncient) is in southern Peru at the 1,400 year old archaeological site of Quilcapampa until the end of August 2016. This is a ROM-led project with Justin Jennings, curator of New World Archaeology. The project is run in collaboration with
A Story of Ghana: Exploring the Asafo Flags at the ROM
In the modern sense, a flag has a number of meanings that ultimately culminate into being a symbol, representative of some form of pride- pride in one's country or province, or in a particular organization or entity. We fly the flag of our country when we visit other places to tell everyone
#ThrowbackThursday: Keep Me Warm One Night
Exactly forty-five years ago, in September, 1971, the Royal Ontario Museum (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
Remembering Ancient Pottery Traditions
By Richard Zane Smith, Catherine Tammaro, and Craig Cipolla This summer Wyandot artists Richard Zane Smith and Catherine Tammaro visited the Royal Ontario Museum’s New World Archaeology collections. The purpose of their visit was to study a small sample of the ROM’s Wendat pottery collections
Popular Motifs on Asafo Flags from Southern Ghana
Blog by Silvia Forni, Curator of African Arts and Culture The Fante are one of the many culturally and linguistically related groups known collectively as the Akan. They mostly live in the Central Region of Ghana, their territory extending along the coast and inland from Takoradi in the west, to