New photography exhibition exploring “life, its transience, its fragility, and its persistence” opens at the ROM on March 31 In their first-ever collaboration, the ROM’s Life in Crisis: Schad Gallery

The Institute for Contemporary Culture (ICC) at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) presents the North American debut of Bollywood Cinema Showcards: Indian Film Art from the 1950s to the 1980s, a visual

Each fossil has an extraordinary story to tell, starting with the amazingly small chance that each one had to become frozen in time—normally, when organisms die, their remains quickly decompose and

Never-before-seen artifacts and exciting videos are showcased as the mysterious Maya world is unveiled at the ROM The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) premieres Maya: Secrets of their Ancient World on

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From the time we open our eyes each morning

Highly-anticipated new permanent gallery explores the 4-billion-year history of early life on Earth TORONTO, ON, November 25, 2021 – On December 4, 2021, Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) unveils the Willner

How many of us, upon seeing a bird, plant, or insect, stop to think … Who is that? How should it be classified? What species is that? Fundamental to humanity’s relationship with nature is our desire

In May 2014, a small ROM team travelled to Newfoundland to salvage a Blue Whale that had washed ashore. This unfortunate event presents an unprecedented opportunity to study one of the more endangered

The natural world is full of sound and the diversity of sound is rich across species. Among vertebrate organisms, sound is an important conduit for communication. It can signal danger, court a partner

After weeks of arduous travel by plane, truck, boat, and foot, I had reached the top of Salto de Oso, a remote, rainforest-shrouded waterfall near the Brazilian-Venezuelan border. But the discovery I

Cloth in Art, Cloth in Fashion. Folded kalamkari fabrics in dye artist Ajit Das’s workshop possessed an innate ambiguity: when folded, they are pieces of fabric; when unfolded, they reveal themselves

Since 2004 I had walked the Qalamoun mountains around the monastery of Deir Mar Musa looking for archaeological features to record. In all that time I found one lithic, a stone tool from humanity’s

We are absolutely LOVING all the memes you guys are sending in for #ROMmeme. It's a beautiful mixture of pop culture references, natural history and ancient world cultures. The perfect trifecta