TORONTO, December 11, 2019 – Josh Basseches, Director & CEO of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) announced today the appointment of Susan Fruchter as Deputy Director for Museum Operations & Chief

TORONTO, December 2, 2019 — The Royal Ontario Museum’s (ROM) feature art exhibitions, It’s Alive! Classic Horror and Sci-Fi Art from the Kirk Hammett Collection , and Gods in My Home: Chinese New Year

Outstanding collection comes out of the vaults for the second time in nearly 100 years. For only the second time in nearly 100 years, the ROM’s outstanding collection of Casas Grandes ceramics is out

New ROM-original exhibition explores the science and legends around bloodfeeding. Did you know that there are more than 30,000 species of animals that feed on blood? Aside from the usual suspects that

ROM palaeontologists discover Cambroraster, a voracious new Cambrian predator. With its rake-like claws, pineapple-slice-shaped mouth, and enormous head, Cambroraster falcatus is a small but mighty

Proximity to the Soufrière Hills volcano has had a dramatic impact on the bats of Montserrat. The Caribbean may conjure up images of sun, sand, and tropical getaways, but this seeming paradise exists

The vampire bat gets its name from shared traits with one of folklore’s most feared monsters. Vampire bats don’t eat solid food, nor do they drink water. They live solely on blood—a feat that has

Why are vampire bats the only mammals that are obligate blood feeders? Vampire bats have many unique adaptations that make them the only mammals that are obligate blood feeders. A key factor is the

Figure 1: Woman’s jacket. Textile made in coastal southeast India, for the Dutch market, eighteenth century. Cotton, hand-drawn, mordant dyed, resist-dyed. Tailored and woven TORONTO, November 20

The biology of mosquitoes and the diseases they transmit. Mosquitoes are a type of flying insect that people love to hate. They are annoying pests, buzzing in our ears as we try to fall asleep on warm

TORONTO, October 24, 2019 — Josh Basseches, Director & CEO of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), announced today the appointment of Dan Wright as Chief Financial Officer, effective November 4, 2019

TORONTO, October 24, 2019 — The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is pleased to announce the publication of Cloth that Changed the World: The Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz on December 2, 2019. The

TORONTO, October 11, 2019 — Five hundred million years ago the first animals on our planet lived in the oceans. Fast forward to today and watch ROM scientists uncover those evolutionary wonders from

TORONTO, October 16, 2019 — The world-renowned Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition returns to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) on November 23 and runs until March 29, 2020. Featuring 100 vivid

A small, feathered theropod dinosaur, Saurornitholestes langstoni, was long thought to be so closely related to Velociraptor mongoliensis that some researchers called it Velociraptor langstoni—until