Fellowships

The Veronika Gervers Research Fellowship was established in 1979 to honour the work and memory of Veronika Gervers, a pioneer textiles and costume scholar. It exists to promote innovative scholarly research from new and established researchers that is based upon objects in the global collection of over 55,000 textiles and costumes from across time in the permanent collection of the Royal Ontario Museum.

Established in 2007, the Wendy and Leslie Rebanks Fellowship advances postdoctoral research in Art & Culture and Natural History, fostering innovative scholarship and expanding the understanding, interpretation, and diversity of ROM’s collections.

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is a cultural institution that showcases art, culture, and nature from around the world and across the ages. Among the top 10 cultural institutions in North America and Canada’s largest and most visited museum, ROM has a world-class collection of 18 million artworks, cultural objects, and natural history specimens, featured in 40 gallery and exhibition spaces. ROM's mission is to transform lives by helping people to understand the past, make sense of the present, and come together to shape a shared future. The museum is known globally for expanding the boundaries of knowledge and presenting that knowledge in new and innovative ways within the intersecting worlds of art, culture, and nature. ROM's extensive exhibition schedule and public programs attract approximately 190,000 students and 1.3 million visitors or more in a typical year.