TORONTO, March 13, 2020, 4:00 p.m. — The Royal Ontario Museum announced today that it will temporarily close its doors to the public starting Saturday, March 14, 2020. Josh Basseches, Director & CEO

Blue Whale Update Last spring, a team from the ROM, including deputy director, Mark Engstrom, and assistant curator, Burton Lim, helped salvage one of two blue whales that had died in the Gulf of St

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This weekend marks the opening of the ROM’s latest special exhibition, Empty Skies: the Passenger Pigeon Legacy . It’s a bittersweet exhibit for the ROM; On September 1st, 1914, almost exactly 100

An ancient radiodont predator with three eyes offers key insights into the evolution of the arthropod body plan TORONTO, ON, July 8, 2022 – ROM (Royal Ontario Museum) revealed new research based on a

Paleontologists at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and the University of Toronto (U of T) have uncovered a new fossil species that sheds light on the origin of mandibulates, the most abundant and

ROM Donations. ROM is an agency of the Government of Ontario and a charitable organization. However, ROM is committed to assisting the fundraising efforts of other charitable organizations and

Our current exhibition The Cloth That Changed the World: India’s Painted and Printed Cottons explores and celebrates handcrafted textiles made of cotton and natural dyes, known as “chintz.” Any

The monastery of Deir Mar Musa in its heyday included hermitages spread around the landscape, but as today, the focus of the complex would have been the buildings, especially the chapel, home to the

In September, 1971, the ROM opened the landmark exhibition Keep Me Warm One Night, a kaleidoscopic display of over 500 pieces of Canadian handweaving. It was the culmination of decades of pioneering