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Singing the Blues: The Mystery of B105

Guest blog written by 2017 Environmental Visual Communication student Viridiana Jimenez For millions of years, the underwater world was a stage for the sounds of marine creatures, big and small. However, this symphony eventually became masked by the sounds of a creature new to the oceans: humans.

Our Future is Deep in the Ocean

Guest blog written by 2017 Environmental Visual Communication student Shawn Wu 我们的未来在海洋深处 "Our Future is Deep in the Ocean" Charm, size, beauty... blue whales also help fight climate change This blog, written in Mandarin by a graduate student studying at the ROM,

Smudging Blue: Honouring the Spirit of Our Whale

Guest blog written by 2017 Environmental Visual Communication student Rachel Brown Kim Wheatley is an Anishinaabe mother and grandmother of the Shawanaga First Nation. I met Kim at the ROM where she offered a traditional prayer and blessing for the bones and heart of ‘Blue,’ the whale who is

CANADA 150- Ontario- Blue Mountain Pottery

My grandmother gave my mother some Blue Mountain Pottery candlesticks one Christmas during my childhood. I was old enough to remember it, so I was probably at least 7 or 8 years old. My mother was very excited by the gift, and the candlesticks quickly became a fixture on one of the most prominent

Hippos and Whales: Unlikely Cousins

Guest blog written by Environmental Visual Communication student Natasha Hirt Looking at whales, you might have a hard time figuring out where they fit into the mammalian family tree. In fact, hippopotamus are actually whales’ closest “cousins”, and they're much more closely related

True Blue Detectives

Guest blog written by 2017 Environmental Visual Communication student Connor McDowell The Royal Ontario Museum has marked yet another first for science with its Blue Whale project. This achievement could hold keys to the conservation of this majestic, endangered mammal – not to mention a deeper

The Natural World in South Asian Painting

These works are on view in the Sir Christopher Ondaatje South Asian Gallery. Paintings from the Indian subcontinent are made with natural vegetable and mineral pigments on paper and thus are light sensitive, requiring regular rotation in a gallery space. The most recent installation focuses on the

CANADA 150- Ontario- Clay

I have twenty vessels and one small tile in my office right now that are a little bit mysterious. Most of them are made of clay from Ontario, so I'm choosing to highlight them in my ongoing tour of Canada, through the Canadian Decorative Arts Collection. They are a set of vessels that was

Le monde naturel dans la peinture de l'Asie du Sud

Ces peintures sont exposées dans la Galerie sir Christopher Ondaatje de l’Asie du Sud. Les peintures du sous-continent indien sont réalisées à partir de pigments minéraux et végétaux naturels sur papier. Elles sont donc sensibles à la lumière et doivent être régulièrement remplacées

Early Tourist Photography at Niagara Falls

By Victoria Abel, M.A. In 1839, when photography was invented, Ontario as a province did not exist and the New York village of Niagara Falls would not be incorporated for another nine years. Despite these facts, the need for easy transportation and access to Niagara Falls had already been expressed

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