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Summerasaurus Part III: The Jacketing Process
Mark Farmer recently returned from an expedition to the badlands of southern Alberta with Dr. David Evans, Associate Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the ROM, in search of dinosaurs. Join us over the course of the next month as Mark and Dr. Evans put up their notes from the field, detailing di
Summerasuarus: Dino Storage
y Lab to see how dinosaur bones are extracted from their plaster field jackets after they are hauled back from the field by palaeontologists like Dr. David Evans. But where does the ROM store these fossils once they are free from their rock matrix? Welcome to Vertebrate Palaeontology Collections
The ROM ‘Minoan’ Goddess: the Suspect Sisters (and brothers)
Here I continue the story of an icon of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) collection: the ivory and gold female figurine–ROM 931.21.1. For further information see the ‘ Minoan’ Ivory Goddess Research Project. The ROM Goddess is just one of the ‘Minoan’ figurines in several museums sometimes
Summerasaurus Part V: The Badlands
e you accept the fact that you’re in a place unlike anywhere else in Canada, it all becomes simple and beautiful. This is the environment where Dr. David Evans and his colleagues spend several weeks each year as part of the ROM’s Southern Alberta Dinosaur Project. It’s bone dry and
Fact & Falsehood in Ancient Roman and Greek objects
This coming weekend at the ROM (June 9-10) we will have Ancient Rome and Greece Weekend! There will be re-enactors demonstrating and displaying arms and armour, ROM experts and objects, an archery range with more re-enactors, and a myriad of activities including make a lucky “bulla”, creating
The 'Goddess' and the Museum: "What's in a name?"
Here I continue the story of an icon of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) collection: the ivory and gold female figurine–ROM 931.21.1. For further information see the ‘Minoan’ Ivory Goddess Research Project. In my last two articles about the ‘Goddess’ in the Museum (The Early Years and
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
#ThrowbackThursday: Thank Goodness
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
Illustrations that Bring the Past Back to Life!
Meet Danielle Dufault—she is the Royal Ontario Museum's paleaontological illustrator. Danielle’s job requires her to reconstruct or depict prehistoric life according to current knowledge and scientific evidence using several illustrative techniques. Working closely with the researchers
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