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megueyb.bsky.social
“What’s up with your day, Meg?”
“Oh nothing much, just cleaning ENTIRELY wooden beater bars from around 250 years ago!!!!!”
Split reeds, held on edge between two long thin rails on either side, with linen thread wrapped to keep everything in place. This rocks.
#LoveMyJob #MuseumWork #TextileHistory
It’s like bars of wooden baleen, I swear
October 30, 2026 at 4:29 PM
kaysunahara.bsky.social
Back to a bit of coin photography @romtoronto.bsky.social today's favourite is a Denarius of Nerva from 97 CE, mint of Rome. The reverse side has incredible detail of Concordia embodied as clasped hands, on a coin that measures but 27.9 mm! 🪙

#MuseumWork #numismatics #coins #handshake
Silver denarius coin with the wreathed head of Roman emperor Nerva, facing to the right. Silver denarius coin, the reverse side of the same coin of Nerva, showing two hands clasped in a handshake.
October 2, 2026 at 6:54 PM
kaysunahara.bsky.social
I help prep the @romtoronto.bsky.social loan objects for this exhibit! So nice to see folks enjoying the show!

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arthistory.bsky.social Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · Sep 19
Last weekend to catch the Etruscan show at the @legionofhonor.bsky.social and it’s worth the trip #SanFrancisco
Amphora with animal frieze Etruscan, ca. 625-550 BC Terracotta, bucchero Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Museum purchase, gift of Renée Dreyfus and Louise Chu through the Ancient Art Council in honor of George and Judy Marcus The signature pottery of the Etruscans, bucchero remains distinctive for its black surface. This amphora is unusual for its four decorative strapped handles and especially the incised animal frieze around its body. The parade of animals real and imaginary was inspired by the Near East, whose influence also reached Greece and its colonies, from which the Etruscans translated it into their own artistic language. Top, left to right: Mirror depicting a pair of Lasas each holding an alabastron Etruscan, Musarna (modern Viterbo), ca. 300 BC Bronze and bone (attached handle), with textile impression Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
September 20, 2026 at 2:25 AM
kaysunahara.bsky.social
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robertmason.bsky.social Dr. Robert Barry Mason @robertmason.bsky.social · Sep 15
In the next part of the process to make the Serce Liman pottery thin-sections the "excess" sample in its resin casing is cut off from the slide using a high precision saw (more in ALT).

#ArchaeologyofStuff #CeramicPetrography 🏺⛏️ #Ceramics #CeramicPetrology #Archaeology #Archaeometry
The "excess" pottery in its resin casing is cut off from the slide using a high precision saw The slide is then numbered with the unique number of the object being sampled. "GW" stands for "Glass Wreck", the specific wreck found at Serce Liman (there were several others!) The slides are now ready to have the sample ground down to three microns thickness. The "surplus" pottery will then be renumbered, if the number was lost in the processing, and stored in the numbered bag it arrived in. If something goes wrong in the final stage, or if it is otherwise desirable, the block will be used to make another thin-section.
September 15, 2026 at 1:44 PM
kaysunahara.bsky.social
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robertmason.bsky.social Dr. Robert Barry Mason @robertmason.bsky.social · Sep 4
Busy week at the ROM! I took the impregnated Serce Liman samples out of the cups, cut off the excess resin, ground the sample flat, then glued glass slides to the sample!

#ArchaeologyofStuff #CeramicPetrography 🏺⛏️ #Ceramics #CeramicPetrology #Archaeology #Archaeometry
September 4, 2026 at 10:13 PM
kaysunahara.bsky.social
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robertmason.bsky.social Dr. Robert Barry Mason @robertmason.bsky.social · Aug 20
At the ROM this week I set the pottery samples from Serce Liman in epoxy resin before making them into thin-sections. (more in ALT).

#ArchaeologyofStuff #CeramicPetrography 🏺⛏️ #Ceramics #CeramicPetrology #Archaeology #Archaeometry
Pottery samples from Serce Liman in epoxy resin in anticipation of turning them into thin-sections. They are put under vacuum for a few minutes to suck the air out, and then the vacuum is released to impregnate the ceramic with the resin as much as possible, This makes it less problematic in making a thin-section out of the friable ceramic. I was nervous about mixing up the samples with their numbers, so I gave each sample it's own cup! Pottery samples from Serce Liman in epoxy resin in anticipation of turning them into thin-sections. They are put under vacuum for a few minutes to suck the air out, and then the vacuum is released to impregnate the ceramic with the resin as much as possible, This makes it less problematic in making a thin-section out of the friable ceramic. I was nervous about mixing up the samples with their numbers, so I gave each sample it's own cup!
August 22, 2026 at 8:37 PM
kaysunahara.bsky.social
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robertmason.bsky.social Dr. Robert Barry Mason @robertmason.bsky.social · Aug 15
Finished up recording the samples from Serce Liman this week. Next week I will start turning them into thin sections for petrographic analysis!

#archaeology 🏺
August 15, 2026 at 9:58 PM
llbmuseum.bsky.social
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
curatorwithout.bsky.social
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
dayannaknight.bsky.social
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.
September 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
stervander.com
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
September 11, 2023 at 4:07 PM
robertmason.bsky.social
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

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January 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
robertmason.bsky.social
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
Group including ROM monkey tile: https://collections.rom.on.ca/objects/462660/tile-of-monkeys-from-spandrel-frieze?ctx=d874f91d-2741-4d0f-9496-babca151cdae&idx=1 group including ROM dervish tile: https://collections.rom.on.ca/objects/419227/tile?ctx=810d6cd5-055b-48fb-bd52-636ac4abe01f&idx=59 monkey feet and dervish body tile monkeys and dervish
December 17, 2024 at 9:17 PM
robertmason.bsky.social
These beautiful 17th century Iranian iris tiles are in the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, but my research with Lisa Golombek eventually reconstructed an entire frieze filled with peacocks.

(see my other #TileTuesday posts on the project)

🏺 #IslamicArt #MuseumWork #SafavidTiles
See https://archive.agakhanmuseum.org/collection/artifact/tile-panel-akm590
December 11, 2024 at 2:28 AM
robertmason.bsky.social
1/🧵 For Tile Tuesday some fragments I had been working on for a project on 17th century tiles from Safavid Isfahan, Iran. 1st pic is from a sales catalogue; 2nd is in the Royal Ontario Museum (@romtoronto.bsky.social).

#TileTuesday 🏺 #IslamicArt #MuseumWork #SafavidTiles
Fragments of tiles from a sales catalogue Tile with monkeys in Royal Ontario Museum https://collections.rom.on.ca/objects/462660/tile-of-monkeys-from-spandrel-frieze
November 26, 2024 at 5:21 PM
theoffview.com
Museums are finally asking the question they should have asked a century ago: what do we actually owe the dead? New piece on mummies, repatriation, and the humanity behind the glass.

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#Substack #Museums #MuseumWork #BehindTheScenes #CulturalInstitutions
June 11, 2026 at 12:02 PM
theoffview.com
The traditional museum membership assumes belonging. Gen Z assumes value. Those are different relationships — and the institutions figuring that out are worth paying attention to.

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📷 Diane Picchiottino

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June 2, 2026 at 12:02 PM
theoffview.com
Off View is live! A new Substack about museums, art, and the people behind them.

Behind-the-scenes notes, interviews, dispatches, and the things I can’t stop thinking about after leaving a gallery.

Subscribe and follow along.

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May 19, 2026 at 2:08 AM
theoffview.com
Coming soon 👀

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May 17, 2026 at 5:46 AM
bowersmuseum.bsky.social
Proud to see the Bowers team featured in this celebration of the vital work museum professionals do every day. ❤️
#repost 🎥 Credit: American Alliance of Museums
#museumprofessionals #museumstaff #museumcommunity #artcommunity #museumwork @socalmuseums.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
secretcurator.bsky.social
Feeling disheartened working in a museum right now. The political climate makes it harder to find meaning in the work I do, especially when so much of our history is being questioned or disregarded. #MuseumWork #PoliticalClimate #FeelingDown
April 6, 2025 at 1:43 AM
toujoursbizarre.bsky.social
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
July 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
kaysunahara.bsky.social
Here's one of the things that has been keeping me busy of late! #MuseumWork
romtoronto.bsky.social Royal Ontario Museum @romtoronto.bsky.social · May 28
Confronting a subject long surrounded by taboo, this kaleidoscopic new exhibition invites visitors to engage with fresh, thought-provoking perspectives—reflecting on what psychedelics have meant across time and what they may come to represent in the future.
A psychedelic-era lithograph print features a white rabbit in the centre of a room with checkered floors and walls featuring high contrast squiggling lines. A variety of objects are littered around the floor, including a glass bottle labeled "Drink Me", playing cards, and a mushroom. Joseph W. McHugh (American, b. 1939, The White Rabbit (Keep Your Head), Colour offset lithograph poster, San Francisco, California, United States, 1967, 89x58.6 cm, ROM 988.201.33 Museum Purchase; anonymous gift
May 28, 2026 at 8:36 PM
kaysunahara.bsky.social
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robertmason.bsky.social Dr. Robert Barry Mason @robertmason.bsky.social · Apr 4
I was at the ROM this week working on pottery from excavations at North Elmham in Norfolk. Here are some very nice 13th-14th century Grimston Ware handles!

#medievalsky 🏺
Medieval pottery.
April 4, 2026 at 4:48 PM
kaysunahara.bsky.social
Actually, a whole bunch of paid summer internships just got posted to @romtoronto.bsky.social jobs website! Go get em people!

#TorontoJobs #MuseumWork
March 18, 2026 at 7:30 PM