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2013 Social Media year in review: Twitter

2013 Social Media year in review: Twitter

As the ROM’s Social Media Coordinator, 2013 was a turning point for social media at the museum. It was the first full year where we had someone dedicated to social media, and more and more staff engaged than ever on Twitter. For #FF, let me suggest some of our newest ROM tweeps: Xerxes Mazda,

2013 Social Media year in review: Facebook

2013 Social Media year in review: Facebook

As the ROM’s Social Media Coordinator, 2013 was a turning point for social media at the museum. It was the first full year where we had someone dedicated to social media and on Facebook we more than doubled our engaged community. We focused this year on deploying a consistant posting schedule and

Syria Today: Humanitarian Crisis and the Destruction of Cultural Heritage

Syria Today: Humanitarian Crisis and the Destruction of Cultural Heritage

On December 10 Stephen Cornish, executive director of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Canada, and Clemens Reichel, assistant professor of Mesopotamian archaeology at U of T, associate curator of Near Eastern Archaeology at the ROM and curator of the exhibition

Top 4 ROM Blogs of 2013

We’ve covered a range of stories on the blog over the last 12 months. From Ancient Egyptian cat mummies, to new apps, to landmark discoveries by our curators and tons in between. This year we introduced new series that offered readers a closer look behind the scenes.  Brian Boyle  showed us

The Evans Connection Part 1: The Minoans Discovered

I pick up the story of the Ivory ‘Minoan’ Goddess to discuss why the ROM, or indeed anyone, believed that the figurine was genuine (or why she was created, if she is fake). In essence, this was based on the opinion of one man, Sir Arthur Evans (as I explain in an earlier post), but to

The Evans Connection Part 2: The Minoans Created

I continue the story which I began in my previous post – Part1: The Minoans Discovered – to show how the British archeologist, Sir Arthur Evans, made his own particular interpretation of the ancient Minoan civilization so popular, and what consequences this popularity was to have. Read More 

Did you wake up with a bang this morning?

You may not have been dreaming when you thought you heard a loud sound in the early morning. The phenomenon is called cryoseism and was also reported on Christmas eve around the GTA. Why is this happening and what is cryoseism?  Cryoseism occurs when the ground and rock contains a significant

Mesopotamia Lectures (Archive)

An archive of past lectures from the Explore Mesopotamia lecture series. Syria Today: Hmanitarian Crisis and the Destruction of Cultural Heritage  (December 10, 2013) Stephen Cornish,  executive director of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Canada. Clemens Reichel,

Behind the scenes in New World Archaeology with April Hawkins

Behind the scenes in New World Archaeology with April Hawkins

Yesterday, New World Archaeology collections technician April Hawkins was cleaning on top of one of the collections cabinets in the storage room when she found something out of place. Here's a video with April explaining her find: So with the help of social media April was able to solve the

Aurora Borealis: Toronto Edition!

On January 7th, the Sun’s surface erupted with an explosion that is now 15 times the width of Earth. The resulting solar flare sent particles racing towards our planet at remarkable speeds, which in previous incidents have reached up to 1609  kilometers a second. Though the massive X1 solar