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Unfrozen in Time: From the Erebus and Terror to the ROM
Guest Blog by Dorea Reeser, Ph.D., Environmental Visual Communication Student, ROM Biodiversity and Fleming College Special thanks to Tim Dickinson, ROM Senior Curator of Botany, Emeritus Ahoy there! For 167 YEARS, the search for Sir John Franklin, his crew, and their lost ships, the HMS Erebus
Staying in Style: Books on Fashion
October saw another Fashion Week in Toronto come and go- one of many events that mark the seasons of the fashion calendar. Our interest in fashion is not new: clothing is a way to demonstrate belonging, status, wealth or purpose, as well as to express individuality. The oldest book in the
Pacifist Males & Warrior Females
During the recent Hero-themed Friday Night Live at the ROM, I brought out examples of popular prints from the collection that explored different hero tropes in South Asian culture. Here are some of them. About a hundred year ago, mass produced colour lithographs proliferated across the South Asian
Modern Design for a Modern World: Art Deco in Paris
In the years between the World Wars a new design style emerged which embraced the imagery of industrialization. This style, known as Art Deco, responded to the social and technological developments that had come out of the First World War, and celebrated all things modern. It was the era of
The Wildlife Photographer of Yesteryear
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is celebrating its 50th year, and the exhibition showing this year's outstanding images of the natural world opened at the ROM last week. Wildlife photography has a history nearly as long as the medium itself. Artists of other mediums had of
Beautiful Bugs! A New Acquisition
The ROM Library has recently acquired an edition of E. A. Séguy’s Insects, published in the 1920s. The book contains highly coloured and detailed full-page illustrations of insects, executed in the expensive pochoir printing technique favoured at this time. The scientific study of insects
In the Shadow of the Volcano: The Discovery of Pompeii
In 79 CE Mount Vesuvius erupted violently. Pliny the Younger, in his eye-witness account of the event, describes earthquakes, towering plumes of hot ash, and skies filled with fire. The heat, ash and debris killed thousands and buried the Roman city of Pompeii. This now-famous event sealed
Of Africa at the ROM. Exploring the complexity of African and Diasporic experience.
The third week of October marked the launch of the three-year multi-platform project Of Africa: a rich and thought-provoking series of talks and performances entitled Histories, Collections, Reflections. Led by independent curators Julie Crooks and Dominique Fontaine and myself, Of Africa is a
Sustainable development in the Caribbean: beer and biology
by Dr. Burton Lim, Assistant Curator of Mammalogy Dr. Burton Lim has traveled to more than 20 countries over his three decade career at the Royal Ontario Museum. The Dominican Republic is noted as a beach resort destination and that is exactly what I am studying. No, seriously! There are 18
ROM Photographer of the Year 2014: Recap
Inspired by the amazing photographs on display in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, for the last two years we’ve put out a call to our colleagues across the ROM to submit their best wildlife and landscape photos for a friendly, in-house competition we humbly call ROM Photographers