Virtual Lessons& Exhibitions

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ROM offers a variety of programs to connect students to art, culture, and nature across the museum. Visit the School Visits page to learn more.

Throughout the year, the School Engagement Team may offer virtual special events with curators or partner organizations. As those lessons become available, they will appear below.

In the meantime, you can also browse a selection Virtual Exhibitions. These virtual offerings bring the museum experience into your classroom using 360 photos, video, and supporting activities..

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Virtual Exhibitions

A monitor on a desktop displays whales floating vertically in the water
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Virtual Exhibition Experience: Great Whales: Up Close and Personal

In 2017, we shared the incredible journey of Blue, ROM’s beloved blue whale, in Out of the Depths: The Blue Whale Story. The highly successful ROM-original exhibition told the story of nine blue whales that died tragically in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 2014, and the unprecedented opportunity for research and conservation it presented.
A computer on a desktop shows a black-and-white image railroad tracks leading toward an arched gate beneath a peaked tower.
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Virtual Exhibition Experience: Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.

Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. examines the history and legacy of the most significant site of the Holocaust. Auschwitz became a system of death and concentration camps in which over 1 million Jews – and tens of thousands of others – were killed in a systematic and industrialized fashion.
A computer screen on a desk displays an image of a glassy lake ringed by trees
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Virtual Exhibition Experience: Crawford Lake: Layers in Time

Experience the Crawford Lake: Layers in Time exhibition from the comfort of your own classroom.
a monitor on a desktop displays an image of a greek statue
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Virtual Exhibition Experience: Colours of Kore

If you asked your students to imagine travelling down a street in ancient Greece, around 2,000 to 3,000 years ago, what do you think they would picture? White buildings and white marble statues? We see this all the time in movies and stories about ancient Greece, so that must be what it looked like, right? FR
A desktop monitor displays a print of a giant koi
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Virtual Exhibition Experience: Aftershocks: Japanese Earthquake Prints

In 1855 in Edo, Japan (Edo is called Tokyo today) there was a huge earthquake. The earthquake caused lots of damage, especially in places where rich, upper-class people lived and worked.