Join us to celebrate Chinese New Year and the opening of the ROM original exhibition, Gods in My Home: Chinese New Year with Ancestor Portraits and Deity Prints.
Free. RSVP Required.
Museum admission is not included.
Join Canadian experts Mike Daly (York University), Tim Haltigin (Canadian Space Agency), Kate Howells (Planetary Society; Government of Canada’s Space Advisory Board member) and Kim Tait (Royal Ontario Museum), as they provide the latest updates on OSIRIS-REx.
Free. RSVP Required.
ROM Admission is not included.
Explore the perilous world of the illicit international fossil trade with New Yorker staff writer Paige Williams, as she delves into the riveting true story of one man's dangerous obsession with a rare dinosaur skeleton.
Madeleine Fritz Annual Lecture in Palaeontology
Dinosaur Fight Club
Join Palaeontologists Tom Holtz and Victoria Arbour as they discuss the co-evolution of tyrannosaurs and armoured dinosaurs such as Zuul in this lively debate-style presentation.
Explore the making of Zuul: Life of an Armoured Dinosaur, presenting sponsor Sinking Ship Entertainment, with Peter May of Research Casting International.
Our 40th Annual Bishop White Committee Winter Luncheon speaker, Ms.Takako Ito, is the Consul-General of Japan in Toronto, and the first woman to be appointed to that role. In the era of globalization and a rapidly aging society with fewer children being born, what is happening to Japanese women now? What are the political, economic, social and educational conditions of women in Japan and what are the Japanese men doing?
Being Japanese Canadian: reflections on a broken world
Opening Program and Concert & Exhibition Preview
Join Grammy-nominated Japanese Canadian flutist Ron Korb and celebrated Japanese Canadian author & playwright Terry Watada for an evening of spoken word and musical performance to mark the opening of the exhibition Being Japanese Canadian: reflections on a broken world. This special evening of performance will be followed by an exclusive sneak peek of the exhibition and an elegant Japanese cuisine cocktail reception.
2019 Darwin Day Lecture
Our Changing Oceans: The Past, Present & Future of Whales
Whales fill us with terror, awe, and affection–explore these magnificent creatures with Smithsonian researcher Nick Pyenson. Why did it take whales over 50 million years to evolve to such big sizes, and how do they eat enough to stay that big? How did their ancestors return from land to the sea–and what can their lives tell us about evolution as a whole? Importantly, in the sweepstakes of human-driven habitat and climate change, will whales survive?
Chinese culture is rich in customs, traditions and beliefs, and the Lunar New Year marks a major time for families to commemorate their ancestors. Join ROM Senior Curator Wen-chien Cheng and explore a range of ancestral images from painted portraits to mass-produced prints, commonly used in average households from late Imperial to early Republican China.
Join us for the Annual ROM Research Colloquium and Vaughan Lecture, a thought-provoking one-day event highlighting the ROM’s ongoing research and recent discoveries.
