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Temple bell of Wei Bin
Royal Ontario Museum receives $1-million gift from The Browning Watt Foundation
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Crowd of people in a large indoor venue with a high curved glass ceiling, raising their arms toward a brightly lit stage. Colorful red and blue lighting and spotlights illuminate the space, with artwork and event lighting visible along the walls
ROM After Dark returns for new season of can’t-miss after-hours fun
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Edward Burtynsky photo
Royal Ontario Museum announces 2026 ROM Immortal Gala: Forces of Nature
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A decorated gourd made by a Huichol artist
Innovative new exhibition exploring the art, culture, and science of psychedelics opens at ROM
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Rendering of ROM lobby area.
Royal Ontario Museum announces $1.25-million donation from the Lindsay Family Foundation
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An African carpenter bee (Xylocopa inconstans) © Pete Carr Photography.
Catch the buzz as BEES: A Story of Survival opens at ROM
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Harvest Yarn Painting, (about 1950–1975), Unrecorded Huichol artist, Mexico. Made with yarn, wax, wood.
From ritual to research: New ROM exhibition explores the mind-altering power of psychedelics
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Portrait photos of Christine Sinclair and Dwayne De Rosario
Canadian soccer icons to explore the influence of sport in ROM’s Holtby Lecture
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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Woman getting tattooed from the 32 Aspects of Beauties of the Woman, c. 1888, woodblock print. Photo © Paul Eekhoff/ROM.
New exhibition exploring the sense of touch opens at ROM
Art & Culture
Two children playing with wooden blocks at a table inside a colorful room.
Creativity goes wild during March Break at ROM
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Specimen of a green orchid bee with metallic green head and thorax, transparent wings, and striped black and yellow abdomen.
ROM abuzz with the fascinating lives of bees this summer
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Natural History
Nicholas Bell
Royal Ontario Museum appoints Nicholas R. Bell as Director & CEO
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Two adults and two children stand indoors near a large tree-like display; one adult holds a bundled-up toddler while the others smile, with people walking in the background.
ROM rings in the Lunar New Year during Family Day weekend
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Image of a textured, glazed tea bowl by Japanese potter Ōmine Jissei
New ROM exhibition explores how the sense of touch is inherent in Japanese art
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Two women in traditional Japanese clothing seated indoors on tatami mats, one playing a koto instrument, with a black cat nearby and a painted screen of a landscape behind.
Art, science, history & beyond: ROM announces 2026 exhibition schedule
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