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Challenge your views at Rome & Greece Weekend

Challenge your views at Rome & Greece Weekend

Ancient Rome & Greece Weekend is fast approaching and we’ve just installed this year’s temporary display of objects ‘ Out of the Vaults ’.  The two showcases in the corridor between the Rome gallery and the Byzantium and Roman East gallery on Level 3 have a selection of objects from

When the BioBlitz Turns into a Treasure Hunt

When the BioBlitz Turns into a Treasure Hunt

Guest Blog written by 2015 Environmental Visual Communication student Anne-Sophie Blanc The Bioblitz experience is educational and fun, but for kids it's even more than that, it's a real treasure hunt! I experienced my first Bioblitz on June 13th 2015. It was a special event for me,

The Book of Life

The Book of Life

By Dr. Victoria Arbour, ROM Postdoctoral Researcher   The history of life on Earth is a story told through the layers of the fossil record: new species evolve and others go extinct, and we see these changes in the fossils that palaeontologists excavate and then study in museums. Much like a book,

There’s more than one "cool" Drake in The Six (or in this case just outside The Six)

By Antonia Guidotti & Dr. Henry Frania Meet the Eastern Green Drake Mayfly (Ephemera guttulata Pictet). This beautiful adult female was collected last year in the Terra Cotta Conservation Area during the Credit River Watershed Bioblitz. Sadly, this species, whose larvae live in burrows in the

Maya: hidden exhibition secrets revealed

Written by Stephanie Allen, ROM Registrar There is an incredible amount of work that happens behind-the-scenes in preparing for every exhibition. Some of that work is eventually obvious to the visitors such as the design, mounts, graphics and labels but a lot of the work is largely invisible. What

Archaeological Approaches to Ceramics

Archaeological Approaches to Ceramics

By Ashley MacLellan and Craig Cipolla Back in October, we posted the first in a series of blog entries dedicated to ROM curator, Craig Cipolla’s collaborative research project with Wyandot artists Richard Zane Smith and Catherine Tammaro entitled, “Remembering Ancient Pottery Traditions.” We

A surprise photograph from India

Mystery portrait in the ROM's collection, later revealed to be Sunder Shyam Chadha in the film “Chhottii Babhi,” 1951 Painted photograph sent by the Friendship Force of Nashik, Dilip Kumar in the film "Ram Aur Shyam," 1967 In 2011, I curated the exhibit Embellished Reality:

Yellowjackets (a.k.a. Late Summer Picnic Pests)

We love picnicking outside in the summer but in August and September our meals are inevitably cut short because of wasps. What are they and what can we do about them? Yellowjackets - much worse than ants at a picnic! There are a few species of these social wasps in Ontario, but most common are

Entomystery – why did the beetles go to camp?

Antonia takes a closer look at the mystery beetle while solving the case of the unwelcome summer camp critters. Photo B Boyle. Last week, I put on my entomological detective hat to investigate a beetle mystery at my son’s camp in a Toronto elementary school. My son reported a large number

Old School Still Works

Old School Still Works

When I was a little younger, my parents gave me a black and white film processing kit. I would wait until it was dark outside and then hang towels over the bathroom window and put another towel under the door. Next, I would mix my developer, stop bath and fixer chemistry in jars and place them in