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Faces to Remember: Chinese Portraits of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (1368 – 1911)

Posted: June 5, 2013 - 14:39 , by ROM
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Exhibitions and Galleries, Collections, World Culture
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Portrait of the elderly Master Jing. By an anonymous painter. Hanging scroll in ink and colour on paper. Qing dynasty, ca. 1768. The George Crofts Collection. Gift of Mrs. H.D. Warren. 921.32.98

Currently on display in the Herman Herzog Levy Gallery from May 18, 2013 to February 23, 2014 is the exhibition Faces to Remember: Chinese Portraits of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (1368 – 1911).  Located on Level 1 of the ROM’s Philosophers’ Walk building, the Levy Gallery is the Museum's main venue for its diverse slate of rotating East Asian exhibitions - themed displays drawn from the ROM’s vast collections of Chinese, Japanese and Korean artifacts.

Accessibility Awareness Week 2013 Spotlight - Alexis Pastuch

Posted: May 31, 2013 - 10:30 , by ROM
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Accessibility, Exhibitions and Galleries
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Alexis Pastuch takes in an exhibition at the ROM

Alexis Pastuch has been a member of the ROM’s Accessibility Advisory Committee since 2010

Accessibility Awareness Week Spotlight 2013 - Adam Roy Cohoon

Posted: May 29, 2013 - 10:30 , by ROM
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Accessibility, Exhibitions and Galleries
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Adam Roy Cohoon visits the ROM

Adam Roy Cohoon is an active member of the ROM's accessibility advocacy community

The ROM Celebrates Accessibility Awareness Week (May 26th to June 1st)

Posted: May 27, 2013 - 10:30 , by ROM
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Accessibility, Research, Education & Engagement
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Kate at a touch table in the Hands-On Biodiversity Gallery, holding a T-Rex tooth from the Education handling collection

This week we will highlight some of the people who ensure the ROM is accessible for all.

Connecting Canada’s newest citizens to Canadian culture at the ROM

Posted: May 17, 2013 - 14:15 , by ROM
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Programs and Events, Education & Engagement
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Child using his Cultural Access Pass, image courtesy of the ICC

 Jess Duerden, Institute for Canadian Citizenship

Magpies, Hand axe, and Highway - Dr. Chen Shen and the ROM-China Luonan Project

Posted: May 3, 2013 - 14:39 , by ROM
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From the Field, World Culture, Archaeology, Research
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Dr. Chen Shen

In China the colourful and beautiful sounds of the Eurasian Magpies (Figure 1) historically have been described in many poems and throughout literature...

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 Volunteer Profile: Gary Cassidy

Posted: April 23, 2013 - 10:34 , by ROM
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DMV, Volunteer, Education & Engagement
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Meet Gary Cassidy, an outgoing and dedicated ROM Volunteer for over 25 years....

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.

The LEGO Maya Pyramid that 5000 kids built

Posted: March 25, 2013 - 14:48 , by ROM
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Ancient Cultures, Programs and Events, Education & Engagement, Technology
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The LEGO Maya Pyramid that 5000 kids built

For our March Break programming this year I wanted to mark the 50th anniversary of the excavation of an incredible ancient Maya site -  Altun Ha, Belize