By Autumn Epple The Royal Ontario Museum hosts several objects from one of the most decisive conflicts in North American colonial history, the War of 1812. This handsome brass tomahawk pipe, with its detachable wood stem, fine lead mouthpiece and sharpened edge, was a gift from British Major ...
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GRASAC Members Share Their Knowledge at Indigenous Collections Symposium
by Cara Krmpotich Over two days, March 25-26, the Ontario Museum Association in partnership with the Canadian Museums Association, Canadian Museum of History and Canadian Heritage, hosted Mashkawatgong-mamawewiziwin, Strengthening our bonds, sharing our practice, the 2021 Indigenous Collections ...
CROYAN – the French Royal Collections from North America
by Leandro Varison The musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac preserves an important set of objects obtained in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries in the current territory of Canada and the United States. These objects were part of the so-called "royal collections" – pieces belonging to the ...
New and Renewed Institutional Relationships
from multiple contributors In GRASAC’s inaugural newsletter on March 1, 2020, Laura Peers updated us about her work of renewing GRASAC’s official institutional relationships with museums, cultural centres, galleries, and archives around the world. This work is resulting in new and ...
Virtual Exhibition: No, not even for Picture: Re-Examining the Native Midwest and Tribes’ Relations to the History of Photography
by Veronica Cook Williamson and Lindsey Willow Smith No, not even for Picture: Re-Examining the Native Midwest and Tribes’ Relations to the History of Photography is an online exhibit that seeks to re-historicize and re-humanize the contexts, subjects, and circumstances leading to the ...