July 2016

Monthly Archive: July 2016

The Tattoo Hunter

Posted: July 28, 2016 - 08:00 , by ROM
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A man in a green shirt and blue bandana taking a selfie with a Makonde tattoo master

Guest blog by Doug Wallace

Anthropologist Lars Krutak has documented the tattoo traditions of Indigenous people all over the world, from the Amazon to the high Arctic.

New Acquisitions: Screening Process

Posted: July 26, 2016 - 08:00 , by ROM
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A woman measuring an ancient Japanese print

Ever wonder what the process is whenever the ROM gets a new acquisitions? Well wonder no more! Here is the general process of how the ROM screens new acquisitions.

Profile: Canada's First Lady of Literature

Posted: July 25, 2016 - 08:00 , by ROM
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A woman in a pink shirt and a scarf taking a selfie reflection in a convex mirror with a man in a black shirt and glasses

Eleanor Wachtel is a Canadian writer and broadcaster, and host of the CBC Radio’s popular literary show Writers & Company. Over the 26 years Wachtel has been hosting her show, she has interviewed some of the most compelling figures in Canadian literature, including Saul Bellow, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, and Mordecai Richler. Wachtel is renowned for turning the traditional interview into an in-depth portrait of her subject.

Tattoos: 7 Common Styles

Posted: July 21, 2016 - 08:00 , by ROM
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The Tattoos exhibition features many different kinds of tattoos both historical and contemporary. There are seven basic contemporary tattoo styles listed below. Let us know in the comments if you have ink that fit in one of these styles. 

1. Japanese  

Tattoo of a Japanese styled dragon on an arm

Often derived from watercolour inspired artwork, as well as word and phrase tattoos.

Exhibit A: Light of the Desert Cerussite Gem

Posted: July 19, 2016 - 08:00 , by ROM
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Collection Highlight
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A diamond like gemstone on a black background

At 900 carats, this magnificent gemstone is the world's largest faceted specimen of the mineral cerussite.

Chihuly Around the World

Posted: July 18, 2016 - 08:00 , by ROM
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Exhibitions
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Three men in a glass-blowing workshop

Chihuly’s permanent installations appear all over the world. 

High-Tech Biodiversity

Posted: July 15, 2016 - 09:00 , by ROM
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Woman in a blue shirt looking at plants in a forest

The Bog Copper story and the power of citizen science

Interview with Dale Chihuly

Posted: July 14, 2016 - 08:09 , by ROM
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We recently had a chance to meet the artist as he prepared for his ROM exhibition and ask him a few questions about his spectacular work…

Yukon BioBlitz: Strange Things Done in the Midnight Sun

Posted: July 13, 2016 - 17:49 , by ROM
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BioBlitz, Biodiversity, Natural History, Nature, Research
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A single bioblitz participant takes notes on top of a ridge in the Dawson Mountain Range near Carmacks, Yukon. Photo by Stacey Lee Kerr

Blog by Stacey Lee Kerr, Biodiversity Storyteller / Creative Producer for the ROM's Centre for Biodiversity

The idea of what “midnight sun” really means is rather obscure to the uninitiated traveller. It doesn’t strike home until you’ve been sitting at a picnic table with some entomologists while they pin bees and flies without anything more than the ambient light, and you realize it’s almost midnight when it looks and feels more like 8pm...

What's the Buzz on Bees?

Posted: July 13, 2016 - 08:00 , by ROM
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Bees
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black and yellow bee resting on a purple flower

Antonia Guidotti, is an Entomology Technician at the ROM.