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Soon planning for the founding of a provincial museum started under Walker's watchful eye. In 1907, Currelly was made curator of the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology. During 1911, Currelly started to work in the basement of the first museum building which was still under construction.
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is a museum of art, world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the largest museums in North America and the largest in Canada. It attracts more than one million visitors every year, making it the most-visited museum in Canada. [2]
The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, given its royal prefix by Order in Council of the Crown in Right of Ontario in 1912. It is under the patronage of the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. This is a list of Canadian organizations with designated royal status, listed by the king or queen who granted the designation.
Together with George Agnew Reid, Byron Edmund Walker and others, Osler participated in the campaign to found an art museum in Toronto in the early 1900s. [4] Osler began his involvement on a trip to Egypt from 1906 to 1907 where he met Charles T. Currelly, archaeologist and future director of the Royal Ontario Museum. In 1909 Osler personally ...
This is a complete list of the founder fellows of the Royal Society. [1] Founder fellows are defined as those present at the inaugural meeting of the Society at Gresham College on 28 November 1660. Fellows elected in 1660
In 1907 he co-founded the Canadian Art Club. [2] Morris was also a member of The Arts and Letters Club of Toronto, the Ontario Society of Artists, the Toronto Art Students League, and an Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. [5] From 1909 he also served on the council of the nascent Art Museum of Toronto (later the Art Gallery of ...
Founding members and their institutions (at the time): [2] F.J. Alcock (National Museum of Canada) E.C. Cross (Royal Ontario Museum) R.E. Crouch (London Public Library and Art Museum) Donald K. Crowdis (Provincial Museum of Nova Scotia) J.R. Dymond (Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology) W.B. Hurd (McMaster University)
Group shows include exhibitions at the Royal Academy (1935 - 43), Royal Portrait Society, Royal Society of British Artists, New English Art Club, Royal Scottish Academy, Royal Hibernian Academy, Ireland, and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. [15] He was a member of the Royal Watercolour Society, and the Canadian Group of Painters. [15]