World Culture
Monthly Archive: December Worl
#5Reasons to come to @ROMToronto this weekend!
So this weekend @ROMToronto? Kind of a big deal. On Saturday we’re covering all things archaeology and Sunday we’re doing the same with palaeontology. Maybe the two best ologies!
Words in Images
By Ka Bo Tsang, Assistant Curator – Chinese Paintings & Textiles
Most people think of Chinese painting as artwork created by artists using special brushes in combination with ink and colour pigments to give shape to ideas on paper or silk through the adroit manipulation of lines, dots, and spots. While this general impression is true, there are exceptions.
Fantastic Folding Fan Leaf
By Ka Bo Tsang, ROM Assistant Curator, Chinese Pictorial Arts
Great Collections Make Great Museums: Constantinian Era Pendant
Great Collections Make Great Museums – An ongoing blog describing recent acquisitions added to the Greek, Etruscan, Roman or Byzantine Collections.
Discoveries at Harvard – ROM expertise at work
This week I am in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Harvard Art Museums here are rebuilding, and planning new galleries, and have also acquired a new collection of pottery from the Middle East. So they have flown me down here for the week on an all-expenses-paid visit, to look at their Islamic pottery (AD 700-1700) and tell them if it is good (not fake), where it is from, and when it was made.
ROM’s archaeologists at the Maya ruins of Ka’Kabish and Lamanai in Belize
Written by Chen Shen, Vice President, Senior Curator, Bishop White Chair of East Asian Archaeology
Fact & Falsehood in Ancient Roman and Greek objects
This coming weekend at the ROM (June 9-10) we will have Ancient Rome and Greece Weekend! There will be re-enactors demonstrating and displaying arms and armour, ROM experts and objects, an archery range with more re-enactors, and a myriad of activities including make a lucky “bulla”, creating your own mosaic masterpiece and learning the game of “knucklebones”.
Ancient Egypt Weekend! OR How a mummy, NOT a dinosaur, got me into teaching.
I started volunteering at the Royal Ontario Museum when I was 14. After a few summers of being a camper at Summer Club, I was old enough to start volunteering. Volunteering at Summer Club turned out to be an incredibly magical experience for me, and eventually led to me to where I am today!
Archaeology Weekend Recap
Submitted by Chen Shen, Vice President, World Cultures