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| Tiny Tots Wednesdays: Afternoons | ROMkids
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Wednesdays, April 18 - June 6, 1:00 - 3:00 pm (8 weeks)
Inspire your child’s imagination and sense of discovery as you learn how to explore the ROM’s collections through the eyes of a child. For children ages 2-4 years accompanied by an adult.
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| Tiny Tots Wednesdays: Morning | ROMkids
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Wednesdays, April 18 - June 6, 9:30 - 11:30 am (8 weeks)
Inspire your child’s imagination and sense of discovery as you learn how to explore the ROM’s collections through the eyes of a child. For children ages 2-4 years accompanied by an adult.
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| Dinosaur Eggs & Babies: Remarkable Fossils from South Africa | Exhibitions
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Ongoing
The ROM offers a rare opportunity to see real dinosaur eggs and babies!
The 190 million year old fossils provide invaluable information on the reproduction and growth of dinosaurs, and reveal in amazing detail the story of how an early dinosaur grew up, from a tiny egg to a 20-foot-long adult
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| Elegy: Deborah Samuel | Exhibitions
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Until July 2, 2012
Level 2
In Elegy, Canadian photo-based artist Deborah Samuel explores life’s fragility, its transience and its persistence. Her poetic images illustrate how the rigid bones or shell of a creature continue to suggest its vanished outer form long after flesh and spirit have moved on.
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| Embellished Reality: Indian Painted Photographs | Exhibitions
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Until June 17, 2012
This exhibition brings together 60 works from the ROM's collection that have been acquired in the last decade yet have never before been on display. They represent a distinctive aspect of South Asian visual culture, combining the practice of painting with the technique of photography.
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| Riotous Colour, Daring Patterns: Fashions + Textiles 18th to 21st Centuries | Exhibitions
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Until April 2012
120 textiles and fashions from around the world, drawn from the ROM's extensive collections, including pieces by design icons John Galliano for Christian Dior and Jean Paul Gaultier.
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| The Art of Collecting | Exhibitions
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Until September 3, 2012
Samuel European Galleries, Level 3
The Art of Collecting brings together over 100 examples of the finest in European and American decorative arts, donated to or acquired by the ROM’s European Department over the last 15 years. Visitors will feel like connoisseurs as they peruse porcelain from the Sèvres factory, furniture by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, silver by Puiforcat, glassware by René Lalique and much more.
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| Rock, Fossil, Gem, Mineral and Meteorite Identification Clinic | Lectures, Courses & Events
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January 18, March 21, May 16, July 18, September 19, November 21, 2012
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. Now in its 15th year, ROM ID Clinics were voted one of the "Reasons to Love Toronto" by Toronto Life magazine.
ID Clinics are free but patrons wishing to visit the rest of the museum will be charged admission.
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| Daily Tours - May 16.12 | Daily Tours
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Free daily tours are offered to the public by trained volunteer Docents, and include general Museum tours, specific gallery tours and tours of special exhibitions.
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| ROMwalks 2012: Historic Toronto - Wed. May 16 at 6 pm | Travels, Trips & Walks
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
ROMwalks provides guided walking tours through Toronto neighbourhoods of architectural and historical interest to the public. Free walks take place on most Wednesday evenings and Sunday afternoons from May to October
Click on more information for details of walk.
For additional information on these free walks call 416.586.8097.
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