We all have passions that fill our lives. Be it the arts, health care, education, poverty or the environment. We all have that internal need to give back to institutions that drive our passions. Many

Blanche and Wes Mitchell shared many passions in their life together: the arts, learning, and travelling—but chief among them all was the Royal Ontario Museum.

Canada’s most-visited museum is calling for submissions of works of art that reflect life in the pandemic through the eyes of Ontario's youth TORONTO, ON, April 12, 2021 – To mark a defining moment in

This painting is from a widely dispersed manuscript called the Mewar Gita Govinda, completed in 1714 in honour of Mewar kind Sangram Singh II, under the supervision of Rupaji Bhatt. It recounts the

Hamilton-based visual artist and curator Bryce Kanbara was recently named one of eight recipients of the 2021 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts. Handed out by the Canada Council for

Nowruz, meaning “new day,” is the Persian New Year which celebrates the arrival of spring on March 20th or 21st each year. The holiday has roots in the ancient Zoroastrian or Parsi religion and has

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

Major exhibition dives deep into the lives of three whale species, revealing their amazing biology, ecological role, and the dire risks they face TORONTO, ON, March 16, 2021 – This summer, the Royal

In December 2020, as we were finalizing the design and interpretation of the exhibition Elias Sime: Tightrope, I had a virtual meeting with artist Elias Sime and his curator and long-time collaborator

North Atlantic right whales are large baleen whales, measuring 14 to 18 metres in length and weighing 30 to 70 metric tons or more. Being large, slow swimmers who could be pursued by small boats

As the novel coronavirus swept across the globe last year, facemasks offered the first line of defense. With supplies for disposable PPE running low, corporations and individuals both turned to

Contemporary art presents a window into the world in which we live. Artists such as Elias Sime are often careful observers and critics of the society of their time. Sime’s work is the oeuvre of a

Archaeological evidence shows that in the early eleventh century CE, the Vikings arrived in Newfoundland and established a small encampment, known today as the UNESCO World Heritage Site L’Anse aux

For Canadians, photographs in family collections are often linked to stories of movement, whether recent or in the distant past, over short or long distances, international or within Canada

On February 18, 2021, at approximately 3:55pm EST, the Mars Perseverance Rover will touch down on the surface of Mars. When it reaches Mars, Perseverance will have traveled 470.8 million kilometres on