Bursting @ the Seams

A friend of mine emailed me about a vintage purse given to her by her aunt (shown in the photos below). She wasn't exactly sure why it h...

This looks like fun and free: Victorian Costume: Demonstration and Talk Thursday, December 10, 7:30 pm Lorraine Ivey Shuttleworth Community ...

This weekend I went on a little road trip to Coopersville – a small city just outside of Grand Rapids. I stopped in to check out a paper dol...

I haven't had much time lately to properly blog but I still come across fun stuff to share. Check out this awesome video on fashion hist...

The history of nursing uniforms is relevant today as we see some hospitals like the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children bringing back the nur...

Every so often I check out the online exhibit Blogmode: Addressing Fashion presented by The Costume Institute . It closes soon by the way, s...

First semester I spent a significant amount of time thinking and reading about the usefulness of digitization for Indigenous societies as a ...

Just when you thought historic films were hard enough to review, The Other Boleyn Girl , based on the historical fiction book by Philippa Gr...

While working on research for the upcoming exhibit A Sense of Space: The Blind Culture at the McIntosh Gallery , I experienced the divide b...

In Museology class last week we discussed the issue of loaning museum objects to indigenous and special interest groups for important occasi...

"Chinese antiquities at ROM under renewed scrutiny," published in the Globe and Mail on Saturday January 19 looks to the recently...

The Case of the Black Santa The Black Santa by Canadian artist Léopold Foulem is an exaggerated caricature of a black Santa Claus in the for...