Free virtual learning series brings the Museum into the homes and classrooms of K-12 students across Ontario   TORONTO, February 5, 2021 – As part of the Museum’s newly redesigned school programs, the

On January 26, 2018, the exhibition Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art opened at the ROM. Curated by Julie Crooks, Dominique Fontaine, and ROM’s curator Silvia Forni the exhibition

Bird migration is one of the most remarkable phenomena in the animal kingdom. Migration is found in most animal groups with examples like monarchs, lobsters, eels, and blue whales to name a handful

Doug Gibson has loved the ROM since childhood. Some of his earliest memories are of going to the Museum with his mother in the early 1950s, which sparked a lifelong fascination with natural history.

When Maryann Weston first moved to Toronto from London, England, no one warned her about the extreme weather—the hot, humid summers and the icy, cold winters.

As a biographer, Marian Fowler wrote volumes about people whose impact lasted well beyond their lifetimes. Now, through an estate gift to the ROM, she has established her own powerful legacy that will

Exclusive Canadian debut of Elias Sime: Tightrope features 24 stunning visual compositions TORONTO, January 28, 2021 – This spring, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) invites visitors to be immersed in

Like many of today’s millennials, adolescent Sabre-Toothed Cats stayed with family longer than expected TORONTO, January 7, 2021 – New research indicates adolescent offspring of the menacing sabre

In 1935, Franz Nagy and Prof. Kal Diebitsch set up a porcelain factory in the town of Allach, not far from Munich. In 1936, the factory was taken over by Heinrich Himmler and the SS. In 1940, it was

The ROM recently acquired a painting by Japanese-Canadian artist Norman Kiyomitsu Takeuchi. Interior Revisited (2012–2017) was part of the ROM-original exhibition Being Japanese Canadian: reflections

In the late 1980s, Treaty Beer was introduced to incite anti-treaty sentiment against the usufructuary rights of Wisconsin Ojibwe to spearfish on ceded lands. Dubbed “hate in a can,” Treaty Beer was

Walter Toshiyuki Sunahara (1935–2002) was a Japanese Canadian painter born in Vancouver, British Columbia. Considered a Nisei, a second generation Japanese Canadian, he was part of a financially

The first woman to lead a university journalism program in Canada, Rita Shelton Deverell is a producer and a theatre professional who co-founded Vision TV to increase multicultural programming and

Since its extinction some 11,000 years ago, the social life of the menacing sabre-toothed cat has remained a mystery to scientists and enthusiasts alike. But a new study of fossils at the ROM has