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What can Museums learn from nonprofit leadership?
Suse Cairns originally published this blog on Museum Geek. Suse is a PhD candidate at The University of Newcastle, Australia, investigating what networked knowledge means for museums in an age of ubiquitous information._______________________________ When you are leading a museum you get lots of
Learning science through Hip Hop: Interview with Baba Brinkman
Understanding evolution is critical to understanding life on earth. Imagine teaching calculus before algebra-- to understand biology, we must be aware of life on Earth and its constant changing form. Baba Brinkman, upcoming ROM guest and Canadian MC, has worked extensively to craft cerebral rap
Weapon Wednesday: Preparing for ROM Revealed
As part of the ROM's celebration of being open for 100 years, we will be having a massive behind-the-scenes open-house called ROM Revealed on the 3 rd and 4 th of May. Thousands of visitors will have the opportunity to see our storage rooms where we keep the objects not on display. There are a
Profile: Canada's Astronaut
Chris Hadfield sits down with ROM M agazine and talks space, dinos, and risk. We’re eager to hear about your favourite objects and places at the ROM, but we don’t get to chat with astronauts very often, so we’re hoping to ask a few questions about your space travels first… Thinking back
Douglas Coupland: Everything Man
Artist, writer, thinker Douglas Coupland is a man of many talents Douglas Coupland is a Canadian novelist and artist. Although it was his work as a fiction writer that Coupland was first recognized for, his writing is complemented by his work in design and visual art, which arises from his
Wyandot Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics
Wyandot Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics By Richard Zane Smith and Catherine Tammaro This blog entry is the third in a series dedicated to Remembering Ancient Ceramic Traditions, a project initiated by us when we visited the Royal Ontario Museum’s New World Archaeology Collections to view
Habelia, a fossil predator with a “multi-tool” head
By Cédric Aria Post-doctoral researcher The rare animal Habelia optata, which had originally been described in 1912, had remained one of the most problematic fossils from the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale—the 508 million years old exceptional fossil deposit of British Columbia (see Habelia
Le cycle de vie d’un nouveau fossile. Venez rencontrer un ancien cousin du polychète.
Karma Nanglu Vous êtes-vous déjà demandé comment on en vient à décrire un nouveau fossile? Avez-vous déjà ramassé un ver de terre, un jour de pluie, en vous demandant d’où venait cet animal »? Dans ce blogue du ROM, je vous expliquerai petit à petit la description du fossile
Biodiversity Series wins award!
The Ontario Association of Landscape Architects recognized the City of Toronto Biodiversity Series of booklets with their Service to the Environment award. The award is “In recognition of the recipient’s ongoing contribution in supporting sensitive, sustainable stewardship of the
Canada 150- Prince Edward Island- red pottery
One of my favorite things to think about when studying craft objects is the way in which they can teach us about the place where they were made, in both sociocultural and environmental aspects. Most often craft objects are examined from the sociocultural perspective, but the environmental