New ROM exhibit will display the enormous six-point star sapphire for the first time in nearly three decades Discover the science and fascinating story surrounding the stunning Black Star of

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

New exhibition explores the transformative evolution of Flemish artwork from the 15th to 17th centuries

I have twenty vessels and one small tile in my office right now that are a little bit mysterious. Most of them are made of clay from Ontario, so I'm choosing to highlight them in my ongoing tour of

Guest Blog written by Environmental Visual Communication student Fatima Ali In a recent CBC interview Mark Peck, the Royal Ontario Museum’s (ROM) very own ornithologist and devoted baseball fan, said

The pumpkin is an iconic symbol of Halloween, and carved jack-o'-lanterns are a familiar face of the season. Irish legend places the jack-o’-lantern in an in-between space of life and death, where the

Tiny Ontario fossil fish takes a big evolutionary bite Fossil donated to ROM for Research and Display 425-million-year-old discovery-- most complete early ‘spiny shark’ known in the World A new

Specimen on display at the ROM demonstrates that bats flew before they could echolocate The discovery of a remarkably well-preserved fossil of the most primitive bat species known to date demonstrates

Grab your snorkelling gear because we are going underwater with ROM’s Ichthyology (Fishes) team! ROM and university scientists, along with other groups such as the Department of Fisheries and Oceans

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Mark Farmer recently returned from an expedition to the badlands of southern Alberta with Dr. David Evans, Associate Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the ROM, in search of dinosaurs. Join us as

February 1, 2022, marks the beginning of the year of the tiger, the third animal in the Chinese zodiac. People born in a specific year are thought to have attributes of that year’s animal. Like all

Janet Carding, Director and CEO of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), announces the appointment of Wende Cartwright and Susan Crocker as the new Co-Chairs of the Board of Directors of the Institute for

Sebastian Kvist on how new study offers insights into the powerful anticoagulants present in leech saliva. Sebastian Kvist, Curator of Invertebrates at the ROM, and an international team of

ICC Celebrates Beethoven’s Beloved Piano Sonatas with Luminato “This rising German star conceives her drawings like musical scores or algorithms with spiraling lines and arrows that ebb and flow