Royal Ontario Museum with Cheryl Fraser

This week the Sheridan Web Design class visited the Royal Ontario Museum. Cheryl Fraser, Web Producer and Coordinator of the ROM, met with us to talk about her job role and all the exciting projects the Web Design team has lined up for 2011. Some of these projects include more interactive displays that will be added throughout the museum. Cheryl Fraser also told us other neat facts about the Web Design team at the ROM, such as how the team is so busy they are unable to meet the demand, so they hire a lot of contract work with designers.

We talked about the interactive displays that were in the exhibit, Earth's Treasures. The exhibit featured breath-taking stones with interactive displays that allowed you to explore facts about these stones. My favorite feature was being able to pick the stone from the shelf and being able to zoom in to see the fine details of it. 

 
Here is a further description of the exhibit: 
 
“Showcasing exceptional mineral, gem, rock and meteorite specimens, the Teck Suite of Galleries: Earth's Treasures is one of the finest museum collections on display. The 6,900 square-foot combined gallery space is divided into the Vale Inco Limited Gallery of Minerals, the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame Gallery and the Gallery of Gems and Gold."
 
"Highlights of the Teck Suite include two of the ROM’s Iconic Objects, the Light of the Desert, a giant 900 carat cerussite gem and the largest faceted cerussite in the world on display in the new Gallery of Gems and Gold, and the Tagish Lake Meteorite, a rare form of meteorite containing some of the oldest and most primitive organic material dating back to the formation of our solar system."

The rest of the day the class enjoyed the other exhibits within the ROM, such as El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa, Reed Gallery of the Age of Mammals, and Fryderyk Chopin & the Romantic Piano. The day was very inspirational and educational. 

Contact Info:
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen's Park
Toronto, Ontario

Cheryl Fraser (LinkedIn)