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The Ten Commandments

A rare opportunity to stand in the presence of some of the most powerful words ever written. The Ten Commandments Scroll contains the text of the Ten Commandments from Deuteronomy 5 and is the world’s oldest and best preserved of all the Deuteronomy manuscripts discovered. A biblical scroll, it

Tuugaaq: Ivory Sculptures from the Eastern Canadian Arctic

A virtual exhibition exploring Inuit historic carvings and culture based on the Dr. Jon A. and Mrs. Muriel Bildfell Collection of sculptures from the Eastern Canadian Arctic at the Royal Ontario Museum. Member of the Virtual Museum of Canada

Joshua Neustein: Margins, Contemporary art unraveling the Dead Sea Scrolls

The Institute for Contemporary Culture (ICC) and the Koffler Centre of the Arts proudly present Margins at the Royal Ontario Museum, concurrently with Dead Sea Scrolls: Words that Changed the World . Margins,/em. is a newly commissioned installation and the first Canadian exhibition by acclaimed

Kings of Punjab

The Sir Christopher Ondaatje South Asian Gallery hosts a special temporary display of two life-size portraits of historical kings of the state of Punjab in north-western India. Hanging in the “Home & the World” section, the oil-on-canvas paintings by established portrait artist Manu Kaur

Fakes and Forgeries: Yesterday and Today

Learn to spot the differences between fakes and real artifacts that run the gamut from Natural History and World Cultures, to modern designer brands in this fascinating, interactive exhibition. Visitors of all ages are invited to guess which Museum artifacts are real and which are clever fakes.

Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008

Vanity Fair Portraits brings together a star-studded array of almost 150 iconic photographs from both its vintage period and modern periods. The exhibition is divided into two parts, 1913-36, the magazine’s early period, and 1983 to the present. This glamorous photographic history of portraiture

Out of the Vaults: Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead

Journey to the afterlife through the mystical Book of the Dead of Amen-em-hat . Books of the Dead are funerary manuscripts created by Ancient Egyptians during their lifetime, containing instructions to help the deceased in the afterlife. Learn about the haunting “weighing of the heart” judgment

Green Porno: Scandalous Sea

Experience the world premiere of three short films among a series written by and starring internationally-known actress and filmmaker Isabella Rossellini. These two- to four-minute films are a humourously entertaining yet scientifically accurate portrayal of the reproductive habits and ecological

Brilliant Strokes: Chinese Paintings from the Mactaggart Art Collection

This exhibition highlights a group of magnificent Chinese paintings selected from the Mactaggart Art Collection, one of the most important collections of Chinese paintings and textiles in Canada. On display for the first time in Ontario, Brilliant Strokes consists of 17 works spanning the 15th

Hamra Abbas: Read

Hamra Abbas’ versatile artistic practice straddles a wide range of media, from paper collage and painting to ephemeral soft Plasticine sculpture and video. Her works often take a playful look towards widely accepted traditions. By appropriating culturally loaded imagery and iconography, and