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Fashion Follows Winning Form
The ROM’s Fashion Follows Form exhibition, which was featured in ROM magazine in the Summer 2014 issue, has won The Richard Martin Exhibition Award, an annual award given by the Costume Society of America. In her article “Fashion Follows Form: Patterning a Relationship Between Function and
Remembering Ancient Pottery Traditions
By Richard Zane Smith, Catherine Tammaro, and Craig Cipolla This summer Wyandot artists Richard Zane Smith and Catherine Tammaro visited the Royal Ontario Museum’s New World Archaeology collections. The purpose of their visit was to study a small sample of the ROM’s Wendat pottery collections
ROM Walk: Queen’s Park Circle
By Bruce Salvatore, ROM Walks, Department of Museum Volunteers Queen’s Park, located in central Toronto, was opened in 1860 and dedicated by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) to his mother, Queen Victoria. Brimming with history, this ROM walk uncovers the controversy that surrounded
Curiosity Makes Tracks on Mars
Posting by Brendt Hyde, Mineralogy Techncian By 1:30 A.M. on August 6 th, 2012 1000 people had filled Time Square and 205 000 computers had tuned in to watch a car-sized rover land (or crash) on Mars. The 2.5 billion dollar (USD) Curiosity rover is NASA’s latest engineering marvel. It is
Applify Your Museum Visit
Mobile applications have changed the way we live–they have replaced our alarm clocks, notepads, calculators, and cameras. We can have all these things in the palms of our hands via smart phones and smart gadgets. Smart phones have moved away from being just a powerful phone and web-surfing
Justin Jennings and ROMtravel visit a hacienda in Mexico
Submitted by Justin Jennings, Curator, Department of World Cultures. Follow his Maya adventures with ROMTravel. Today, we took a break from the world of the Pre-Hispanic Maya, and took a trip to a hacienda that has been painstakingly assembled as it would have stood at the beginning of the
Museum Monday with Melissa- April 20, 2015
Friday Night Live, more commonly known as #FNLROM sign up has BEGUN! For all of the young professionals looking to rub shoulders with the cultured people of the city, there really is no better place to be on a Friday night. Food stations, drinks, music & various other activities take place
National Aboriginal History Month
By Bella McWatch, Kiowa Wind Memorial (KWM) Indigenous Youth Intern In June, the entire country will be filled with festivities to commemorate National Aboriginal History Month. The ROM Learning Department is taking this opportunity to continue its ongoing reconciliation efforts through
CANADA 150- Nova Scotia – Black rag doll
The Canadian Decorative Arts section of the Royal Ontario Museum has a reasonable doll collection, featuring both folk and commercially made dolls. Primarily the dolls represent the backgrounds of Anglophone and Francophone early Canadian settlers, like this handmade dancing doll from Quebec, and
Digital Artist Show-and-Tell featuring Sound Selecta
This past Friday, the Institute for Contemporary Culture hosted its first ‘Digital Artist Show and Tell’. Amidst the glimmering iPad drawings in the David Hockney fresh flowers exhibition, over 30 people spontaneously congregated in the Roloff Beny Gallery for an interactive session with