July 2016
Monthly Archive: July 2016
The Tattoo Hunter
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
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
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
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
Often derived from watercolour inspired artwork, as well as word and phrase tattoos.
Exhibit A: Light of the Desert Cerussite Gem
At 900 carats, this magnificent gemstone is the world's largest faceted specimen of the mineral cerussite.
Chihuly Around the World
Chihuly’s permanent installations appear all over the world.
Interview with Dale Chihuly
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…
What's the Buzz on Bees?
Antonia Guidotti, is an Entomology Technician at the ROM.
The secret of Oesia: a Burgess Shale mystery, by Karma Nanglu
My name is Karma Nanglu and I’m a PhD student at the University of Toronto, but on a day-to-day basis I do my research at the Royal Ontario Museum.
ROM Celebrates National Aboriginal Day!
On June 21st, the ROM Learning Department began National Aboriginal Day celebrations with a cleansing ceremony using Sweet Grass to start the day off in a good, positive way led by Justin Chiblow, Kiowa Wind Memorial Indigenous Youth Intern.
