Bursting @ the Seams

This looks fun: EVENT – Learn more about 19th-century textiles at Fulford Place Saturday, March 20, 2010 – 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with one hour f...

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...

Grand Rapids, Michigan is a vibrant place to be! Today I took in ArtPrize . If you have not heard about this event, it is a city-wide art c...

On Wed. Sept. 9 @ 6:30pm at the Textile Museum of Canada Sharon McDonald will be giving a talk on hooked rugs. I just got a preview this mo...

Job description: General Description: The Curatorial Assistant is responsible for providing logistical, research, administrative and technic...

The pumping music of a fashion runway combined with that of a marching band drew me into the Camouflage exhibit currently running at the Ca...

I recently presented a paper at the Canadian Association for the History of Nursing / Canadian Society of Medical History meeting at the Co...

Today I took some time to check out the new Virtual Museum of Canada's website which was just released. The site is a tool that not on...

Pendant la fin de semaine, j’ai mené un atelier de couture avec mon collègue au Musée du domaine Billings . A l’atelier nous avons fabriqué ...

A talk coming up by Susan North in Kingston, Ontario this Thursday night looks fantastic! I am hoping to get over to it and will report back...

I recently visited the McCord Museum for a colloquium called Bodies on Display in part with the Costume Society of America and alongside...

If you are in love with Lucy Johnston’s “Nineteenth-Century Fashion in Detail” (London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 2005) like I am, M. Elai...

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

To follow up with a previous posting on museums wanting artifacts back, I thought I would post these two really interesting video clips fro...

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

While reading Museum News, I came across an article that made my heart skip a beat. Bexhill Museum of Costume and Social History in East Su...

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...