Accessibility
The ROM seeks to remove barriers and offer meaningful experiences for all of our visitors. As part of this mandate, we offer programs that respect the abilities of our visitors and allow them to engage our collections and galleries in various ways.
VIDEO: Innovative Museum Tours at the Royal Ontario Museum
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Our accessible programs include:
Tactile Tours
Explore your Senses: Engage the World
Every third Thursday of the month tactile tours, led by Museum Docents, allow visitors who are blind or have vision loss to explore objects from the ROM’s World Cultures and Natural History galleries. In cooperation with the Museum’s curators and conservators the tours have been developed to enable visitors with disabilities meaningful interaction with the Museum’s collections, allowing them to touch real artifacts as well as scale reproductions. Tactile tour books, featuring Braille and raised-line drawings, also supplement the tour. The 45 to 60 minute tours are free with general Museum admission and can be reserved by calling 416.586.5823.
Due to the vulnerability of the artifacts and to ensure that participants have ample time to experience them, tours are limited to six (6) people.
The first of a series of tours, Touch the Orient: Engage China, is now available.
Touch the Orient: Engage China
Offered every third Thursday of the month, this guided Tactile Tour explores the ROM’s iconic Ming Tomb through real artifacts and tactile-scaled reproductions from the ROM’s Chinese galleries.
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ASL Interpreted Tours
On the first Thursday of the month, as part of our partnership with George Brown College’s School of Deaf and Deafblind Studies, interpreters are providing American Sign Language-English interpretation of the Museum’s highlights. This program is directed at visitors who are deaf, deafened, or hard of hearing. ASL Interpreted Tours are free with general Museum admission. No reservation is required to attend these tours. For more information please call 416.586.4623.
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Please note that under the ROM’s Public Access Policy a free guest ticket will be provided to an attendant accompanying a visitor with disabilities.
ROM visitor explores Ming Burial Mound, Gallery of Chinese Architecture.
