museum

A (bad) picture of one of the digital catalog information entries for an item belonging to the grade 7 history collection before I updated. Property of the ROM Learning Dept.

With my internship at the Royal Ontario Museum almost over, I want to reflect on some things I’ve noticed about museum education, specifically, teaching humanities classes to children. While I have never gotten to teach a class, I have seen them happening, have helped set them up and put them away, and have helped create information for teaching the curriculum. 

Written by: Shawna Quigley
Date posted: March 11, 2019

                                                                                                    Me holding a megalodon tooth from the Discovery Gallery.

Ever wonder how museums acquire rare, antique, or unusual objects? Or what happens after a museum receives an object but before it’s unveiled to the public? From my experiences cataloguing new items for the Learning Department in the Royal Ontario Museum, I’ve learned that the “behind the scenes” work at the museum takes a lot longer and is a lot more hands-on than I expected.

Written by: Shawna Quigley
Date posted: November 25, 2018