TORONTO, May 11, 2020 – While the doors of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) remain temporarily closed, audiences can explore and experience the Museum online with the launch of ROM at Home. Accessible

TORONTO, CANADA (May 11, 2020) -- New research published today in the journal Nature Astronomy reveals a type of destructive event most often associated with disaster movies and dinosaur extinction

May 8, 2020 ̶ Toronto ̶ Uncover/Recover, an award-winning multimedia project from the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), OCAD University, and the Province of Ontario, is now live online. Celebrating

TORONTO, May 04, 2020 — An international team of scientists have revealed new insights into the inner workings of ancient dinosaur communities. Seventy-five million years ago, North America was

TORONTO, April 28, 2020 –The Royal Ontario Museum is pleased to announce that Dr. Alexandra Palmer, the ROM’s Nora E. Vaughan Senior Curator has won the Costume Society of America’s (CSA) prestigious

Every spring birds travel north to their breeding areas. In celebration of Earth Day 2020 the ROM is sharing what you can do to help birds as they migrate to their breeding areas in Ontario and

Learn more about what it’s like to be a wildlife photographer.

The Canadian loons are back in season. When the long cold spring finally ends, my mind turns to the summer season of camping and rustic cabins. It’s at this point that thoughts of loons start to fill

Rethinking the spread of early civilization in the Andes. Sometime in the mid-ninth century AD, a llama caravan descended a narrow trail into the Sihuas Valley of southern Peru. Some of the people

How an ancient Greek statue found its way to our conservation lab. One of my colleagues in the Greek and Roman Art department was touring the galleries with her daughter when her daughter looked up

A young girl’s garment from the eighteenth century. For the past 400 years Western women have worn some kind of corset—called stays in the eighteenth century—to shape and support malleable flesh

Museum staff donate PPE in response to appeal made by local hospitals. The ROM may be closed to visitors, but that didn’t stop museum staff from doing their part to help frontline and medical workers

ROM Entomologist Brad Hubley shares insights into what makes these eight-legged creatures special. Spiders are not insects. Spiders have eight legs, two main body parts (abdomen and cephalothorax), no

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

How the ROM’s extensive Ornithology collection is crucial to understanding bird diversity and evolution. Birds are the most diverse group of terrestrial vertebrates. They are not only an integral part