Behind-the-scenes
Monthly Archive: December behi
Museums, stories and things.
Get ready for an insider's look at the ROM from someone who's usually very far outside of it.
The Making of Mesopotamia
Take a look behind the scenes as we prepare for the opening of the Mesopotamia exhibition on June 22.
Behind the Camera: ROM Images creation
The Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival starts today which makes May a busy month for Brian Boyle the ROM’s Senior Photographer.
How to display the past.....Part 3: Curatorial Perspectives
How do curators put together a museum display? Find out in my third installment of this behind-the-scenes tour.
ROM Archaeology Weekend
ROM Archaeology weekend, April 13-14 2013, will feature local archaeologists who work across Canada and around the world.
Our first Google+ Hangout on Air
Yesterday the ROM held our first Google+ Hangout on Air, the first museum in Canada to do so. There's more to come every Tuesday and Thursday at Noon EST until April 30th.
Better than Saturday morning cartoons
One-year-old Peter likes looking at the paper with his parents on Saturday mornings (or better yet, ripping it apart, says his dad). This past weekend he went straight for the latest copy of Let’s ROM and started flipping through it with a look of intense concentration on his face. The ROM’s March Break offerings (and the chance to meet dino mascots Gertie and Gordo) must have appealed to Peter and he wasn’t alone; the Museum welcomed 66,006 visitors—a March break attendance record— this past week for its special interactive programming.
Komodo Dragon Preparation, Step 3: Cleaning and Articulating the Bones
The final stages of preparing Doni, the Komodo Dragon for display
How to display the past….. Part 2: Collecting
This instalment of my behind-the-scenes tour of what shapes a museum display began as an example of how museum collections are formed, but it may develop into a detective story as you’ll see…..