Acknowledgement
ROM acknowledges that this museum sits on the ancestral lands of the Wendat, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Anishinaabek Nation, which includes the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, since time immemorial to today.
Free Access
ROM is pleased to announce that the First Peoples Gallery will be open free-of-charge to the public, part of the Museum’s broader effort to support greater appreciation of Indigenous collections stewarded by the Museum, and to support the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report. This is also one in a series of long-term initiatives aimed at increasing public access to the Museum. This initiative is generously supported by the Government of Ontario.
Indigenous Events at ROM
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Pimachiowin Aki - January Monthly Museum Minecraft
Travel to the Miskwewesibi campsite on Pimachiowin Aki, “The Land that Gives Life,” and join the Anishinaabe community to learn how to live in a winter forest.
Program
ROM Minecraft
ROM currently offers several Minecraft: Education Edition programs that build meaningful, personalized learning across a wide variety of themes including science, resource use, community, cultural respect, and coding. One-hour monthly programs let you and your students learn about a topic under the guidance of ROM Educators. Extended programs allow independent, in-depth exploration of a variety of subjects including Rocks and Minerals, Sustainability, and Coding. For more information, please contact ROM Learning and be sure to include Minecraft in the subject line. ( romlearning@rom.on.ca)
Past Events
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We Are Made of Stardust: How Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Western Science Intersect in Kent Monkman's Being Legendary
Panel with Kent Monkman, Dr. Leroy Little Bear, Elder Wilfred Buck, Dr. Kim Venn, moderated by Lisa Jackson
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Landscape of Nations: Beyond the Mist
For 13,000 years Indigenous peoples have been present in the Niagara region, drawing sustenance from its lands and waters and participating in historic events that shaped the course of history. Join editors Rick Hill and Tim Johnson as they explore the making of Landscape of Nations: Beyond the Mist, a spectacular new book which takes readers on a journey of learning and understanding through Niagara's profoundly compelling Indigenous heritage and legacy. Landscape of Nations: Beyond the Mist will be available for sale and signing by Rick Hill, Tim Johnson, and a number of other contributors
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Towards 2067: Tracing an Indigenous Future in Canada
What kind of place will Canada be in 2067? In light of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s recommendations, and as Canadians struggle to understand our past and foster a greater Indigenous presence in cultural leadership, what will life look like for Indigenous, Métis and Inuit peoples in 2067? Join acclaimed broadcaster and cultural critic Jesse Wente (Ojibwe from Toronto, member of the Serpent River First Nation), Director of Canada’s Indigenous Screen Office, as he discusses the current landscape and charts a way forward.
In-Person Lessons
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Indigenous Perspectives: Throughout ROM
Explore the diversity of Indigenous cultures and perspectives throughout various areas of the museum.
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Indigenous Inventions, Innovations, and Creativity
A dynamic look at the diverse contributions of Indigenous Peoples highlighting innovation, creativity, and knowledge in areas like art, science, and design.
Virtual Lessons
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Indigenous Perspectives: Throughout ROM - Virtual
Learn about the diversity of Indigenous cultures and perspectives throughout various areas of the Museum.
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Indigenous Inventions, Innovations, and Creativity - Virtual
A dynamic look at the diverse contributions of Indigenous Peoples highlighting innovation, creativity, and knowledge in areas like art, science, and design.
Past Exhibitions
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Kent Monkman
Being Legendary
This exhibition is included with General Admission. ROM offers free admission for Indigenous peoples. This is my story. Some of it is true. Much of it is truer than your truth. This âcimowin—this story that carries history and knowledge—begins in the stars and is about the land. We’ve been here for so long. There is too much to tell, and much I cannot say. Those of you who are our people know that we have many different kinds of stories, for learning, to guide us forward, sacred stories, and of course âcimowina, true accounts like this one (although I do like to add a little something extra to
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TUSARNITUT! Music Born of the Cold
ROM offers free admission for Indigenous peoples. TUSARNITUT! Music Born of the Cold invites visitors to discover the breadth and diversity of Inuit musical expression and examine the connections between Inuit visual arts and two prominent musical genres: drum dancing and throat singing. Presenting over one hundred sculptures, prints, drawings and installations themed around music from the 1950s to the present, this exhibition explores the fundamental role music plays in Inuit life, while providing a rare opportunity to appreciate differences in style and content among artists in regions
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Anishinaabeg
Art & Power
Explore the life, traditions, and sacred stories of the Anishinaabeg as told through their powerful art over the last two centuries. Anishinaabeg: Art & Power takes you on a journey through the artistic evolution of one of the most populous and diverse Indigenous communities in North America. With their homeland in Ontario, and communities stretching from Quebec to Alberta and Michigan to Montana, the Anishinaabeg have communicated and expressed their knowledge and cultural traditions through art for centuries, depicting the relationships between humans, their ancestors, nature, ceremony and
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