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The First Brush: Paul Kane & Infrared Reflectography
Exhibition

The First Brush

In the mid-19th century, Canadian artist Paul Kane (1810–1871) travelled from Toronto to the Pacific Ocean sketching Aboriginal inhabitants and landscapes. Upon his return, he settled in his studio
Dr. Nathan Lujan
Event

Curator Coffee and Chat

Join Dr. Nathan
Exhibition

Sharks

DIVE DEEPER Sharks have intrigued humans for as long as we have explored the oceans. The terrifying monster from the movie Jaws is what many might imagine when they think of these animals, but they
The ceiling of the ROM Rotunda the gold tiles shimmer in the light coming through the stain glass window.
Event

Museum Highlights in French

Join us for a 45
Royal Ontario Museum Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. Bloor Street Entrance.
Veronika Gervers Fellow

Rachel Silberstein

Chihuly ceiling
Exhibition

CHIHULY

Experience groundbreaking explorations in colour, light, and form by Dale Chihuly—a pioneer of the studio glass movement and considered to be one of the world’s foremost artists working in glass today
Kent Monkman: Constellation of Knowledge, 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 93” x 124”, Image courtesy of the artist
Resource

We Are Made of Stardust: How Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Western Science Intersect in Kent Monkman's Being Legendary

Panel with Kent Monkman, Dr. Leroy Little Bear, Elder Wilfred Buck, Dr. Kim Venn, moderated by Lisa Jackson
A volunteer cleans the remaining tissue from the Komodo Dragon skull
Article

Komodo Dragon Preparation, Step 3: Cleaning and Articulating the Bones

The bugs in our infamous Bug Room here at the ROM did an amazing job cleaning our Komodo Dragon bones. However, there was still some manual cleaning required. Luckily, there were dozens of volunteers
A small silver robot rolls along a dark track on a paper
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Robotics at the Museum

Students will utilize Ozobots and colour coding technology to experiment with introductory robotics concepts.
Portrait of the elderly Master Jing
Exhibition

Faces to Remember

Get an up-close look Chinese portraits created during the Ming and Qing dynasties, that come from the renowned collections of the Museum’s Far Eastern section. Showcasing a culturally important, but
bomb going off in desert.
Article

Erasing Mankind’s Heritage: the Monuments of Palmyra and their Devastation

Dr. Clemens Reichel speaks at the San Antonio Museum of Art about the impact that the current conflicts in Syria and Iraq have had on cultural heritage sites and museums zones and what their loss
Students interacting with a collection item at ROM
Resource

Relationships in Nature

Explore some important and fascinating relationships between organisms including humans and how human activity and history affect the natural world.
Illustration of a dragon fly
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Insects: the little things that run the world

Insects are the world’s most diverse group of animals, with about a million species already found and named. Because of their generally small size they often escape our notice as we go about our daily
Royal Ontario Museum Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. Bloor Street Entrance.
Article

Ladybug, ladybug and more ladybugs

Every fall, there is a period when people see lots of ladybird beetles flying about or congregating. Unlike our native species which are adapted to Canadian winters, the Asian Multicoloured Ladybird
Grasshopper
Article

Beautiful Bugs! A New Acquisition

The ROM Library has recently acquired an edition of E. A. Séguy’s Insects, published in the 1920s. The book contains highly coloured and detailed full-page illustrations of insects, executed in the