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From Meteorites to Slime- A Look at the ROMForYou “Space Day” at The Hospital For Sick Children
(written by Min Wong, member of ROMForYou, Friends of Earth and Space, Friends of Paleontology) Have you ever held a piece of Mars? Martian meteorites are exceedingly rare but kids got to see one first hand on “Space Day” at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) over the March Break. It was
Safavid Tile Project IV: The Artist behind the Arches
Written by Lisa Golombek, Curator Emeritus (Islamic Art) In 17th century Iran, unlike earlier times, painters often signed their works. These were individual pages, collected by the connoisseur and bound in an album, or the artist signed pages of an illustrated manuscript. Although these
Huge cache of fossils from the Burgess Shale reveal a new species of large predator
Joe Moysiuk – Phd Student & Vanier Scholar, Royal Ontario Museum & University of Toronto We recently unveiled fossils of a new large predatory species in a paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. This animal had rake-like claws and a pineapple-slice-shaped mouth at the front of an
Découverte d'un grand prédateur dans un trésor fossilifère des schistes de Burgess
Joe Moysiuk, doctorant et récipiendaire de la bourse Vanier, Musée royal de l’Ontario et Université de Toronto Dans un article publié dans les Proceedings of the Royal Society B, nous dévoilions des fossiles d’une toute nouvelle espèce prédatrice aux dimensions impressionnantes. Cet
Department of Art & Culture OfAfrica Internship for Undergraduate and Graduate Students- Fall & Winter 2019-2020
About the Department of Art & Culture The Department of Art & Culture is one of two curatorial departments under the Collections and Research Division. It includes collection areas such as Africa, Archaeology of the Americas, Ancient Egypt & Sudan, Ancient Greek & Roman,
« The Origins of Chintz », retour sur l’exposition des années 1970
« L’indienne… le tissu exotique qui a fasciné l’Europe…si populaire que l’Angleterre et la France l’ont interdit … ce tissu a révolutionné l’industrie de l’impression textile en Europe. » C’est ainsi que s’exprimaient les auteurs de la brochure accompagnant la grande
Des histoires d’impression, de teinture et d’étude des textiles
Blogue écrit à l'origine en anglais par Rajarshi Sengupta, ROM IARTS 2017-2018. Penché sur une table dans la salle d’étude des textiles du ROM, le maître graveur Gangadhar Kondra examinait de près une tenture en coton ornée de motifs complexes imprimés à la planche. Cette
Solution innovante à un étrange problème
La restauration d’une chape en cotonnade indienne réalisée au 18 e siècle pour l’Église arménienne Ici, au département de restauration des textiles du ROM, Chris Paulocik, restauratrice principale des textiles, et moi avons commencé à préparer les objets en vue de la prochaine
Department of Art & Culture Internship Program (Graduate and Undergraduate) 2020-21
Art & Culture Internship Program The Department of Art & Culture offers opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to explore museum careers and gain professional experience and training. The Art & Culture Internship Program awards internships to students interested in a
Honouring the Victims
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji‘un The above Arabic phrase is derived from the Qur’an (2:156), the Holy Book of all Muslims, which translates as ‘Indeed, to God we belong and to God we shall return.’ It is commonly recited by Muslims across the world upon hearing news that a person