Programs

Rock, Gem, Mineral, Fossil, and Meteorite Identification Clinic

Bring your specimen to the Museum for identification by ROM experts. Visitors with rocks, minerals, gems, fossils, or suspected meteorites can have them identified at the special ID clinic held six times a year (free with Museum admission). Now in its 13th year, ROM ID Clinics were voted one of "Reasons to Love Toronto" by Toronto Life magazine.

To keep lines moving quickly, each visitor/family may bring up to three objects for identification. We can not identify stone artifacts and NO appraisals will be done.

Upcoming ID Clinics

NEW LOCATION, NEW ENTRANCE AND EXTENDED HOURS!!

Our team has moved to a new space accessed through the Group Tours door. The ID clinic can be accessed through the President's Choice School Entrance, located at the south end of the building on Queen's Park closest to the subway entrance on Ground level. The President's Choice Entrance is located at the Museum subway stop on the Yonge-University-Spadina subway line.

Our six clinics a year are held on Wednesdays from the extended hours of 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm.
> See the calendar for the next clinics

Visitors gather around the fossil identification table, one of the most popular tables at ROM ID Clinics.

Kevin Seymour, Assistant Curator Vertebrate Palaeontology, explains to visitors what sort of fossil they have brought in. Kevin's research interests include the Quaternary faunas of eastern North America, especially Ontario, and the evolution of the North and South American cats.

Janet Waddington, Assistant Curator Invertebrate Palaeontology, identifyies an invert fossil for a visitor. Janet started at the ROM in 1971 and her current research interests include Silurian scorpions from Ontario.

  • Visitors
  • Kevin Seymour
  • Janet Waddington

Contact Info

For more information on ID Clinics, or to answer any of your questions pertaining to what you can bring in to show the panel of experts, please contact us at 416.586.5549 or naturalhistory@rom.on.ca.