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How to display the past......

Ever wondered what goes in to the display you see in a museum gallery? I’m exploring some behind-the-scenes issues that shape what you see. This is the first of a series of posts that tie into a new course I’m teaching for University of Toronto graduate students called Greece and Rome at the

How to display the past….. Part 2: Collecting

In my last post  I mentioned that various factors (sometimes pure chance) shaped a museum collection, and so affected the look of a public display.  Here, I illustrate this by exploring the collection history of one particularly famous (even infamous) object.  This ivory and gold figurine has

How to display the past.....Part 3: Curatorial Perspectives

As I mentioned in my first post, this behind-the-scenes tour is based on a course for University of Toronto graduates that I have been teaching this semester (my excuse for the long delay between blog posts). In the class the students heard two different experiences of putting together a permanent

The 'Goddess' and the Museum: The Early Years

The 'Goddess' and the Museum: The Early Years

The front pages of The Palace of Minos volume 4.1, published by Sir Arthur Evans in 1935 This is the first of a series of articles that I will be writing as part of the ‘Minoan’ Ivory Goddess Research Project about an icon of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) collection: the ivory and gold female

The 'Goddess' and the Museum: Museum Attitudes

The 'Goddess' and the Museum: Museum Attitudes

An old ROM photograph of the ‘Minoan’ ivory figurine on display in front of the watercolour reproduction by Piet de Jong of the Minoan Bull-Leaper fresco from Knossos Photo: © ROM Here I continue the story of an icon of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) collection: the ivory and gold female

Fall: Big Ideas (Ages 6-7) AM

Saturdays, October 19- December 7, 2024, 9:00 am- 12:00 pm Hey! What’s the big idea? We’ll answer our own questions and conduct experiments as we become junior scientists. How do people travel to space? What can we learn from digging up fossils? Why did Archemides yell “Eureka!”? We’ll

ROMKids Day Camp: September (Extended Care: 4- 6 pm)

Date: Friday, September 27, 2024, 4:00 pm- 6:00 pm Extended Care, consisting of relaxed, supervised activities, will be available for a limited number of children registered for ROMKids PA Day. Pre-registration is required. Limited space is available. Registration is on a first-come, first-serve

ROMKids Day Camp: October (Extended Care: 4- 6 pm)

Date: Friday, October 11, 2024, 4:00 pm- 6:00 pm Extended Care, consisting of relaxed, supervised activities, will be available for a limited number of children registered for ROMKids PA Day. Pre-registration is required. Limited space is available. Registration is on a first-come, first-serve