Weekend exhibit research. #MuseumWork #AllDeductible
February 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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#Museum30, Day 12, Learning - One favorite thing about #MuseumWork is the opportunity for learning new things every day. Right now, I am learning from our Native guest staff on how to help tell their stories in an authentic way. As part of my PD, I visited the Mashantucket Pequot Museum Friday.
November 18, 2024 at 5:52 PM
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A model chariot team excavated from Tamassos-Frangissa, Cyprus in the collection @romtoronto.bsky.social Look at those cute horsey forelocks! 17 cm tall.
Cypriot Archaic periods I-II, about 700-480 BCE
#MuseumWork #Ceramics #Cyprus #Horses #chariot #archaeology
Cypriot Archaic periods I-II, about 700-480 BCE
#MuseumWork #Ceramics #Cyprus #Horses #chariot #archaeology
May 14, 2024 at 3:23 PM
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Today I finished my 2nd draft of an exhibit proposal, gave a tour of our new exhibit which opens in 17 days, and wrote a session proposal for a conference. My brain is tired. #MuseumWork
January 31, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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At one stage in the ROM project on 17th century Iranian tiles we had a frieze with monkeys & another with dervish, but then we found a tile that joined the two groups together!
(see my other #TileTuesday posts on the project)
🏺 #IslamicArt #MuseumWork #SafavidTiles @romtoronto.bsky.social
(see my other #TileTuesday posts on the project)
🏺 #IslamicArt #MuseumWork #SafavidTiles @romtoronto.bsky.social
December 17, 2024 at 9:17 PM
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Here's a line-up of some illustrations completed so far for the educational resource packs. #museumwork #graphicdesign #illustration #archaeology #history
April 4, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Who's a good girl? This tiny doggo in a playful pose atop this ancient Roman bronze hairpin certainly is!
Found in the bed of the River Walbrook, Poultry St. London, UK, 13.2 cm, dated 50-160 CE, now in the collection @romtoronto.bsky.social
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#MuseumWork #hairpin #dogs #archaeology
Found in the bed of the River Walbrook, Poultry St. London, UK, 13.2 cm, dated 50-160 CE, now in the collection @romtoronto.bsky.social
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#MuseumWork #hairpin #dogs #archaeology
November 5, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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This White-crested Laughingthrush (Garrulax leucolophus) makes up the #BirdsOfTheDay, as I practiced registration system & procedures. I also concluded the reason the permanent marker did not work was NOT that it was out of ink...
#NewbieCurator #MuseumWork #birds #ornithology
#NewbieCurator #MuseumWork #birds #ornithology
September 11, 2023 at 4:07 PM
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Me, to practically everyone at work, at the end of the day: “Nat, the Indian boy, was judged to be free!!”
Them: “Who?”
Me: “The court case I was following (transcribing) from 1777”
#historythings #museumwork #publichistory
Them: “Who?”
Me: “The court case I was following (transcribing) from 1777”
#historythings #museumwork #publichistory
February 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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The staff is having an interesting debate on how to exhibit this as a 1960/70s “stop immigration” graffiti, unrelated to the factory, dramatically changes the history and nature of this object.
#stalbansmuseumandgallery #museumwork #preventiveconservation
#stalbansmuseumandgallery #museumwork #preventiveconservation
July 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Couldn't resist this pose with a limestone sculpture fragment from Cyprus in the collections
@romtoronto.bsky.social Excavated from the sanctuary of Apollo at Tamassos-Frangissa, about 480-310 BCE.
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#Archaeology #MuseumWork #sculpture #hands
collections.rom.on.ca/objects/348467
@romtoronto.bsky.social Excavated from the sanctuary of Apollo at Tamassos-Frangissa, about 480-310 BCE.
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#Archaeology #MuseumWork #sculpture #hands
collections.rom.on.ca/objects/348467
March 6, 2024 at 10:21 PM
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Some days you feel like a cracked limestone head, fallen off a statue from the Hellenistic period (about 300-30 BCE), excavated from Frangissa, Cyprus in the 1880's, now in the storage rooms @romtoronto.bsky.social 🏺
#MuseumWork #Cyprus #Archaeology #sculpture #ABitCracked
#MuseumWork #Cyprus #Archaeology #sculpture #ABitCracked
June 6, 2024 at 8:18 PM
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Oh dang! This looks great!
For my #ttrpg crew, remember that we're basically shaking hands with the entire interweaving web of #MaterialCulture and #MuseumWork, and chances are, the research that would up your design game (and you game design! Ha!) is out there!
For my #ttrpg crew, remember that we're basically shaking hands with the entire interweaving web of #MaterialCulture and #MuseumWork, and chances are, the research that would up your design game (and you game design! Ha!) is out there!
Excited to share that the volume on #disabilityhistory co-edited with the wonderful @nicolebelolan.bsky.social is out! I learned so much from her, and all of other presenters.
November 14, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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1/🧵 This chap is evidently from the dervish frieze in our project on 17th century Iranian tiles. But the edges of the fragment were ground down and any one of them could be the edge of the original tile!
🏺 #IslamicArt #MuseumWork #SafavidTiles #TileTuesday
@romtoronto.bsky.social
🏺 #IslamicArt #MuseumWork #SafavidTiles #TileTuesday
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January 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Here is today's best Archaic smile in @romtoronto.bsky.social Cypriot collections. A small limestone head, 12x7 cm, that was probably part of a standing votive figure. 500-300 BCE, Excavated at Tamassos, Cyprus.
#MuseumWork #Smiles #Cyprus #Archaeology
#MuseumWork #Smiles #Cyprus #Archaeology
February 22, 2024 at 10:04 PM
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From TikToks & tours to digitizing archives & fossil prep for future exhibits, our summer students Erin & Emily are doing it all! 🤩 Proud to have them preserving Lac La Biche's history. #YoungCanadaWorks #MuseumWork #LacLaBiche
July 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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I love the shadows coming from this gorgeous sculpture by Ruth Asawa called, “Untitled (S.154, Hanging Nine-Lobed, Single-Layered Continuous Form)” c. 1958.
Come see it at the Cantor Arts Center!
Museum work is so cool!
#ruthasawa #museumwork #museumloan
Come see it at the Cantor Arts Center!
Museum work is so cool!
#ruthasawa #museumwork #museumloan
June 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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First Skype a Scientist session for Fall 2025 for me today so I've been thinking harder about #archaeology, #medieval, #museumwork and my place in the scheme of things.
You all have no idea how much I miss it and the people I've met along the way.
You all have no idea how much I miss it and the people I've met along the way.
September 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Paid, Spring/Summer, Undergrad, Leacross Foundation Internship @romtoronto.bsky.social Ancient Greece & Rome
royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/CfPNjC...
Please spread the word! There are paid internships in other ROM depts too, worth having a look! 👀
#MuseumWork #Internship #SummerJob
royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/CfPNjC...
Please spread the word! There are paid internships in other ROM depts too, worth having a look! 👀
#MuseumWork #Internship #SummerJob
March 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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When the old number GB346 stays on the object better than the new number 927.15.132 you're glad the database is searchable for both! It's not bad really but it happens often. Crossbow fibula from Winchester, UK, 300-400 CE in the @romtoronto.bsky.social collection.
#MuseumWork #RomanBritain 🏺
#MuseumWork #RomanBritain 🏺
November 29, 2024 at 6:15 PM
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Day 22 of #Museum30 is on #Career. My career has had a few twists and turns, highs and lows over last 20 yrs. It really is true you can't predict where you will be and what you'll be doing. I feel very lucky and privileged to be back doing the museum work I love. #MuseumWork #HeritageSector
November 22, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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Anglo-Saxon urn, about 500-600 CE, in the collection @romtoronto.bsky.social A partial label identifies it is from Girton College, Cambridge, UK. This will be on ROM's eMuseum website tomorrow, just look up 920.96.1
🏺 #MuseumWork #archaelogy #AngloSaxon #ceramics
🏺 #MuseumWork #archaelogy #AngloSaxon #ceramics
August 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Battered & chipped but still Archaic smiling! A limestone fragment from a votive figurine excavated from Tamassos, Cyprus, Archaic period 550 BCE. Traces of red pigment on the central panel of the cap, lips & tunic.
#Collections @ROMtoronto 🏺
#MuseumWork #Cyprus #Smiles #Archaeology
#Collections @ROMtoronto 🏺
#MuseumWork #Cyprus #Smiles #Archaeology
February 23, 2024 at 9:25 PM
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1/🧵 Pottery at the ROM to show my students from University of Toronto! This time it is pottery from Mamluk Egypt and Syria (c. 1250-1500) and pottery from Iran c.800-1300.
🏺 #Archaeology #ArchaeologyOfStuff #Ceramics #IslamicArt #MedievalSky @romtoronto.bsky.social @uoft.bsky.social
🏺 #Archaeology #ArchaeologyOfStuff #Ceramics #IslamicArt #MedievalSky @romtoronto.bsky.social @uoft.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Yet another drawer of Roman oil lamps @romtoronto.bsky.social 🏺 Some, like the one in focus in this photo, are from Tunisia based on a macroscopic examination of the ceramic fabric back in 1975 by John W. Hayes. #MuseumWork #inventory #CollectionCare #pottery #Archaeology
October 13, 2023 at 8:39 PM
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