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Canada's leading museum, home to 18 million artworks, artifacts, and specimens from around the world and across the ages.

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Featured exhibition

Auschwitz.

Not long ago. Not far away.

Until September 2025

Black and white archival image showing train tracks in the foreground leading into the distance towards the entrance to the Auschwitz camp.

Featured exhibition

Nature in Brilliant Colour

Until August 17, 2025

Projection of a planet with a silhouette of a man with his hands in the air looking at a large projection of a planet

Featured exhibition

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2024

Until May 04, 2025

A manatee and a calf adrift underwater among eelgrass.

White Porcelain Jar 백자 호, Korea, early 20th century, 983.146.6.

Bishop White Committee: Friends of East Asia

The Big Chill – Environmental Crisis and Artistic Production in Korea

Dino Nite

DinoNite

Six musicians in dark clothing, gathered in a group photograph.

ARC Ensemble

A crowd in a museum conversing. In the background is a DJ under a disco ball.

Summer Solstice

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The Royal Ontario Museum is home to a world-class collection of 18 million artworks, cultural objects, and natural history specimens, featured in 40 gallery and exhibition spaces.

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Connect your students to objects from cultures throughout human history and specimens.

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ROM Members examing exbihition wall

An artist's illustration of an ancient sea scape teeming with life.

WonderWorks Hands-on Gallery, interactive experience, children

A gallery full of various pottery, ceramics, and statues.

This white rhino is a rare specimen and the centerpiece of the Life in Crisis: Schad Gallery of Biodiversity.

People look around a gallery with a fall scene, including trees with red leaves.

Dawn of Life WonderWorks China Life in Crisis Hands-on Biodiversity

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3 children with crowns enjoying birthday party celebrated at ROM

This Saturday version of our popular Summer Club program provides supervised, hands-on educational activities, art projects, science experiments, and more. ROM's fascinating galleries, authentic objects and outstanding professional staff guarantee that your camp experience will be hard to beat! Every fall, winter and spring children will enjoy eight Saturdays of fun-filled, educational adventures in ROM's inspiring galleries.

Child enjoying ROM Kids Junior program with parent watching

Bring your child on an eight-week sensory adventure as you tour galleries with our early learning instructors, and join them in creative play-based activities, and social interaction in a classroom setting. Meet other parents, caregivers, and children and engage your child in interactive learning for life.

four people sitting at a table, having a fun conversation at the Royal Ontario Museum

Have you ever been so moved, fascinated, or impressed by an object, specimen, or work of art, that you wish you could talk about it with others? Conversations is a new program series of informal gatherings at ROM that invite you to engage with other individuals on topics of interest. Relax as you discuss specific collections, objects or themes of exhibitions, or take a tour followed by refreshments and conversation. You can also practice your language skills every month in sessions designed for newcomers, immigrants, and English language learners. In past programs we have gathered to talk

Bangkok Thailand Grand Palace

Art, culture and nature tours to thoroughly researched destinations throughout the world, accompanied by expert resource people.

Two women examine a fish at an identification workshop.

Ontario Fish Identification Workshops

These workshops are designed primarily for professionals, technicians, field biologists, and environmental consultants, but other interested individuals - including university and college students - are welcome. Workshops will be offered in April and May 2025, at the University of Guelph Science Complex (unless otherwise noted). A variety of courses are being offered this year: Three-day introductory workshop that will cover the broad array of Ontario fish families and provide an opportunity to develop specialized knowledge of a group of interest Four-day introductory workshop that will cover

Tour of the Samuel European Galleries

Free with Museum admission, daily tours are offered to the public by trained volunteer Docents. Tours include general Museum tours, and specific gallery tours. Tours of special exhibitions are surcharged.

3 children with crowns enjoying birthday party celebrated at ROM

This Saturday version of our popular Summer Club program provides supervised, hands-on educational activities, art projects, science experiments, and more. ROM's fascinating galleries, authentic objects and outstanding professional staff guarantee that your camp experience will be hard to beat! Every fall, winter and spring children will enjoy eight Saturdays of fun-filled, educational adventures in ROM's inspiring galleries.

Child enjoying ROM Kids Junior program with parent watching

Bring your child on an eight-week sensory adventure as you tour galleries with our early learning instructors, and join them in creative play-based activities, and social interaction in a classroom setting. Meet other parents, caregivers, and children and engage your child in interactive learning for life.

four people sitting at a table, having a fun conversation at the Royal Ontario Museum

Have you ever been so moved, fascinated, or impressed by an object, specimen, or work of art, that you wish you could talk about it with others? Conversations is a new program series of informal gatherings at ROM that invite you to engage with other individuals on topics of interest. Relax as you discuss specific collections, objects or themes of exhibitions, or take a tour followed by refreshments and conversation. You can also practice your language skills every month in sessions designed for newcomers, immigrants, and English language learners. In past programs we have gathered to talk

Bangkok Thailand Grand Palace

Art, culture and nature tours to thoroughly researched destinations throughout the world, accompanied by expert resource people.

Two women examine a fish at an identification workshop.

Ontario Fish Identification Workshops

These workshops are designed primarily for professionals, technicians, field biologists, and environmental consultants, but other interested individuals - including university and college students - are welcome. Workshops will be offered in April and May 2025, at the University of Guelph Science Complex (unless otherwise noted). A variety of courses are being offered this year: Three-day introductory workshop that will cover the broad array of Ontario fish families and provide an opportunity to develop specialized knowledge of a group of interest Four-day introductory workshop that will cover

Tour of the Samuel European Galleries

Free with Museum admission, daily tours are offered to the public by trained volunteer Docents. Tours include general Museum tours, and specific gallery tours. Tours of special exhibitions are surcharged.