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Totally Buggin’: Spiders and Insects in Pop Culture
Guest blog written by 2018 Environmental Visual Communication student Michael Berger. Dr. Susan Tyler paces the empty subway platform, lit by flickering fluorescents, anxiously waiting for her husband’s return from the perilous depths of the underground. Out of the corner of her eye she
Turning Fear Into Fascination
Guest blog written by 2018 Environmental Visual Communication student Claire Foran. As you enter the Royal Ontario Museum's latest exhibition, you are immediately swarmed by scurrying spiders; hundreds of them, crawling all around you. But you can't touch them- they aren't real.
An Afternoon With Weird Science at the ROM's 80-Year-Old Camp
Guest blog written by 2018 Environmental Visual Communication student Michael Berger. Under the fluorescent museum lighting, in a pristine, white hallway a group of kids ages six to seven begin their experiments. The investigations start with looking, then touching, then smelling, tasting,
Fear for Adults and Fascination for Kids: Spiders and Friends Day at The Hospital for Sick Children
Written by Mark Bernards, Environmental Visual Communications student We all know someone who is terrified of spiders. Maybe it’s a friend, or a family member, or maybe it’s you! But I’m sure we can all think of someone we know who panics at the first sign of anything crawling across the
Holiday Gift Guide 2018
Shop the ROM this holiday season! November 30- December 2, 2018 ROM Members get double the discount! 20% off regularly priced merchandise* at the ROM Boutique and the Exhibition Boutique when you show your Membership card. Ornaments, books, apparel and so much more. Find the perfect gift for
Facing Histories: A Block Maker, a Dye Specialist, and a Textile Study Room
This guest post was written by Rajarshi Sengupta, ROM IARTS fellow 2017/18. Master block maker Gangadhar Kondra was leaning over the table to closely examine a cotton hanging intricately adorned with block-printed designs, in the textile study room of the Royal Ontario Museum. This was his first
Celebrating the Year of the Pig
Burial figure of a pig, earthenware, Eastern Han Dynasty (late 2nd-early 3rd century), China 918.17.57 Sir Edmund Walker Collection February 5 th, 2019, marks the beginning of the year of the pig 猪. The twelfth and last animal in the Chinese zodiac. People born in the year of the pig are
Safavid Tile Arch Project III: The Palace of the Stables
Written by Lisa Golombek, Curator Emeritus (Islamic Art) There are thousands of tiles from the Safavid period in Iran (16 th-17 th centuries), and many monuments of this period preserve their splendid tiling in their original settings. However, the ROM's Safavid Tile Arch Project (STAP)
Presenting our Winners of the 2018 ROM Wildlife Photographer of the Year Contest
Inspired by the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, the Ontario-wide ROM Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest returned for a 4th year –with incredible prizes for both adult and youth categories! From November 15, 2018 to February 15, 2019, the ROM invited amateur
An Innovative Approach to A Puzzling Problem
Conserving an Indian Chintz Cope made in the Eighteenth Century for the Armenian Church Here in the Textile Conservation department of the ROM, Senior Textile Conservator Chris Paulocik and I have begun preparing objects for display in the upcoming exhibition: “The Cloth that Changed the World: