January 2017
Monthly Archive: January 2017
Three cheers for Burgess Shale’ newest oddball animal, a worm with waving “arms”
By Jean-Bernard Caron, Senior Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology, Royal Ontario Museum
Sports et divertissements: a unique resource for researchers in design history

Toronto based researcher, illustrator and textile artist, Ketzia Sherman, discusses
#ThrowbackThursday: Stippling the Walls

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 Dorothy K. Burnham and Harold B. Burnham.
Archaeological Approaches to Ceramics

Back in October, we posted the first in a series of blog entries dedicated to ROM curator, Craig Cipolla’s collaborative research project with Wyandot artists Richard Zane Smith and Catherine Tammaro entitled, “Remembering Ancient Pottery Traditions.” We encourage readers to look back and review the general goals of the project before diving into this post. In this entry we report on the specific ceramic collections that we viewed and discussed with Richard and Catherine, summarizing typical archaeological approaches to Huron ceramics.
The Book of Life

By Dr. Victoria Arbour, ROM Postdoctoral Researcher
Mystery of conical fossils solved, after 175 years

My name is Joe Moysiuk, I am a 20-year-old undergraduate student at the University of Toronto enrolled in both the departments of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Earth Sciences. I am excited to announce that a research paper which I am lead author of, titled Hyoliths are Palaeozoic lophophorates, has recently been published by the journal Nature This paper was based primarily on newly discovered fossils housed in the ROM’s invertebrate palaeontology collections.
Science communication at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto and the Natural History Museum, London: two experts compare notes

Guest blog by recent EVC grad Temira Bruce comparing opinions from science communicators at museums in Toronto and London, UK, on the how the way in which museums communicate science to their visitors is changing.
ROM Fossils & Evolution kicks off #Fossil150!

Posted by: Marianne Mader & David Evans
#ThrowbackThursday: Needle and Thread

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 Dorothy K. Burnham and Harold B. Burnham.