Strong, passionate, and principled. These are some of the words Jessica Peatling uses to describe her late grandmother, Vera Kircheis.

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

Two large Chinese scroll paintings recently returned to the ROM after a two-year treatment at a private conservation studio in the United States. The painting Ladies in the Garden is filled with

It has only been a year since the ROM unveiled the Reid Family Plaza and the Helga & Mike Schmidt Performance Terrace. In that time these appealing spaces adjacent to the Bloor Street entrance have

The Provincial Government of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), in association with Research Casting International, are pleased to announce the completion of the first phase

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

An up-close look at ROM's new Connection Stations, which were designed to encourage self-reflection, understanding, and exchange via Museum objects.

MEDIA ADVISORY Biologists from the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry will descend on a newly acquired 2500-acre piece of land on the North Shore of Lake

Written by Lisa Golombek, Curator Emeritus (Islamic Art) In 17th century Iran, unlike earlier times, painters often signed their works. These were individual pages, collected by the connoisseur and

Dr. John Creese, Isabel and Gino Vettoretto Curator of North American Archaeology

In September, 1971, the ROM opened the landmark exhibition Keep Me Warm One Night, a kaleidoscopic display of over 500 pieces of Canadian handweaving. It was the culmination of decades of pioneering

The ROM and UWO appeal to public to help find fragments The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and The University of Western Ontario (UWO) are looking for help from local residents who witnessed, or who may

I’m starting my Canada 150 blogging project in Newfoundland and Labrador. Why? To start, it is the province that lies geographically furthest east, and moving east to west is an easy organizational

Researchers from the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and University of Toronto, and the University of Cambridge have confirmed that a 505 million-year-old creature, found only in the Burgess Shale fossil

From the time we open our eyes each morning