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Illustrations that Bring the Past Back to Life!

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

Collaboration, Family and Photography: The Process of Creating an Installation for The Family Camera Exhibition

Written By Maya Wilson-Sanchez Since September 2016, OCAD University, The Royal Ontario Museum and The Family Camera Network have been collaborating to create an interactive project for The Family Camera exhibition opening May 6, 2017. This opportunity is offered through OCAD U’s Digital Futures

CANADA 150 – What We Make and What We’re Made Of

Hi! I'm Heather Read, the Rebanks Postdoctoral Fellow in Canadian Decorative Arts. In honour of Canada’s 150 th anniversary of Confederation, I’ll be writing a blog series this year highlighting interesting objects from the Canadian Decorative Arts Collection at the Royal Ontario Museum.

#ThrowbackThursday: Badly Tied Up

#ThrowbackThursday: Badly Tied Up

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

CANADA 150 – Newfoundland and Labrador – Sarah Savarey Hat Box

CANADA 150 – Newfoundland and Labrador – Sarah Savarey Hat Box

I’m starting my Canada 150 blogging project in Newfoundland and Labrador. Why? To start, it is the province that lies geographically furthest east, and moving east to west is an easy organizational structure. More deeply, Newfoundland and Labrador was one of the last provinces to join

L'image du passé!

L'image du passé!

Voici Danielle Dufault, l’illustratrice paléontologique du Musée royal de l’Ontario. Danielle utilise plusieurs techniques d’illustration pour reconstituer ou représenter la vie préhistorique en se basant sur le savoir actuel et des preuves scientifiques. Travaillant en étroite

CANADA 150- Newfoundland and Labrador- Michael Massie Teapot

CANADA 150- Newfoundland and Labrador- Michael Massie Teapot

My second object from Newfoundland and Labrador is a contemporary piece by silversmith Michael Massie.  It is a teapot, mimicking the shape of an ulu knife, with etched designs on the silver body of the pot.  The handle is made of bloodwood. Massie is a contemporary Canadian artist who was born

CANADA 150- New Brunswick- Deichmann Pottery

CANADA 150- New Brunswick- Deichmann Pottery

It can be pretty common in rural parts of Canada to find a pottery studio. Lots of Ontario cottagers have favorite potters that they visit in their cottage community. Many of the Gulf Islands in BC have at least one resident potter. Quebec has a hugely successful pottery show that draws in

Wyandot Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics

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

ROM Research: The Family Camera Network

ROM Research: The Family Camera Network

The Family Camera Network  is a SSHRC-funded, three-year research project that brings together over 25 researchers and 6 cultural and educational institutions to conduct a multi-partner scholarly study of family photographs. An important part of this project is creating public archives at the ROM