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#ThrowbackThursday: Endurance Test

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

#ThrowbackThursday: Workforce of One

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

Mexico’s Day of the Dead at the ROM

Mexico’s Day of the Dead at the ROM

re, the book accompanying the exhibition  ¡Viva México! Clothing & Culture. The book will be on sale at the event on October 30. Join us for  Friday Night Live: Day of the Dead  after the talk. FNL tickets will be available for sale after the talk. The exhibition  ¡Viva México! Clothing

#ThrowbackThursday: Drying in the Garden

#ThrowbackThursday: Drying in the Garden

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

#ThrowbackThursday: A Very Muggy Day

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

2013 Social Media year in review: Twitter

2013 Social Media year in review: Twitter

Scenes #ROMBugs – Tweets from our (in)famous Bug Room #ROMmeso – Tweets about of special exhibition, Mesopotamia Inventing our World #FNLROM – Friday Night Live trended in Canada on May 3 th, May 10 th, May 17 th, Oct. 18 th  & Nov. 8 th #ROMmb – Tweets about March Break at the museum

Pacifist Males & Warrior Females

During the recent Hero-themed Friday Night Live at the ROM, I brought out examples of popular prints from the collection that explored different hero tropes in South Asian culture. Here are some of them. About a hundred year ago, mass produced colour lithographs proliferated across the South Asian

Theodora Ferrant

Theodora Ferrant

ter and all things that matter. Tell us one of your favourite ROM memories. Taking an older friend and her very respectable globe-trotting husband to Friday Night Live and seeing him losing it with child-like glee and wonder at the various rock formations and fossils throughout the Museum. He was

Introducing Zuul, Destroyer of Shins, Generator of Science

Introducing Zuul, Destroyer of Shins, Generator of Science

owcase this amazing fossil. We are in the process of planning an exhibit, but in the meantime, you can see fossils of Zuul at ROM programs, including Friday Night Live Dino Night in early June. Stay tuned for more details: More about Zuul Read the Open Access paper Learn more about Zuul on the ROM

iPad Drawing Class with Jerrem Lynch

What do you get when you mix an Australian graffiti artist, a high school student, two art therapists, a pub owner and a radio show host at the ROM on a Thursday night? The ICC’s iPad Drawing Class! Twenty-five people from all walks of life and age groups signed up for an evening workshop – and