Behind-the-scenes

Monthly Archive: December Behi

Museums, stories and things.

Posted: June 10, 2013 - 15:45 , by royal
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Behind-the-scenes, History, Natural History, Collections, World Culture
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Visitors in the Birds Gallery

Get ready for an insider's look at the ROM from someone who's usually very far outside of it.

The Making of Mesopotamia

Posted: June 5, 2013 - 11:14 , by royal
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Behind-the-scenes, Mesopotamia, Exhibitions and Galleries, Collections
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Take a look behind the scenes as we prepare for the opening of the Mesopotamia exhibition on June 22. 

Behind the Camera: ROM Images creation

Posted: May 1, 2013 - 12:03 , by royal
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Staff, Behind-the-scenes, Photography, Programs and Events, Education & Engagement
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Portrait of ROM photographer Brian Boyle, by Tiffany Cuthbert

The Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival starts today which makes May a busy month for Brian Boyle the ROM’s Senior Photographer.

How to display the past.....Part 3: Curatorial Perspectives

Posted: April 23, 2013 - 13:56 , by ROM
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Behind-the-scenes, Greece and Rome, Ancient Cultures, Exhibitions and Galleries
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How do curators put together a museum display?  Find out in my third installment of this behind-the-scenes tour.

ROM Archaeology Weekend

Posted: April 11, 2013 - 14:37 , by royal
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Archaeology, Behind-the-scenes, Programs and Events
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Archaeologists excavating in Cyprus

ROM Archaeology weekend, April 13-14 2013, will feature local archaeologists who work across Canada and around the world.

Our first Google+ Hangout on Air

Posted: April 3, 2013 - 10:05 , by ROM
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ROM Social Media, Behind-the-scenes, Technology
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Google+ Hangout on Air, photo courtesy of Brennan Caverhill.

Yesterday the ROM held our first Google+ Hangout on Air, the first museum in Canada to do so. There's more to come every Tuesday and Thursday at Noon EST until April 30th.

Judging a Book By Its Cover: ROM Images in print

Posted: March 26, 2013 - 09:49 , by royal
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Behind-the-scenes, ROM Books
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An oil painting by Paul Kane depiciting Plains Métis travelling

As mentioned in the previous post when our clients license images for use in a book or other type of publication we ask that they send us a copy which is then transferred to the ROM Library and Archive.  As I’m sure our Shipping staff are well aware quite a few book packages arrive for Rights and Reproductions.  I just received a copy of Contours of a People: Metis Family, Mobility and History, published by the University of Oklahoma Press.  I’m willing to judge thi

Better than Saturday morning cartoons

Posted: March 20, 2013 - 16:11 , by Allison Gillies
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Behind-the-scenes, Programs and Events
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One-year-old Peter

One-year-old Peter likes looking at the paper with his parents on Saturday mornings (or better yet, ripping it apart, says his dad). This past weekend he went straight for the latest copy of Let’s ROM and started flipping through it with a look of intense concentration on his face. The ROM’s March Break offerings (and the chance to meet dino mascots Gertie and Gordo) must have appealed to Peter and he wasn’t alone; the Museum welcomed 66,006 visitors—a March break attendance record— this past week for its special interactive programming.

Komodo Dragon Preparation, Step 3: Cleaning and Articulating the Bones

Posted: March 19, 2013 - 16:32 , by Nicole Richards
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Behind-the-scenes, Biodiversity, Collections
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A volunteer cleans the remaining tissue from the Komodo Dragon skull

The final stages of preparing Doni, the Komodo Dragon for display

How to display the past….. Part 2: Collecting

Posted: February 28, 2013 - 15:51 , by ROM
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Behind-the-scenes, Greece and Rome, Ancient Cultures, Collections
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This instalment of my behind-the-scenes tour of what shapes a museum display began as an example of how museum collections are formed, but it may develop into a detective story as you’ll see…..