ICC collaborates with TIFF® to present FREE installation paying homage to David Lynch’s Blue Velvet The Institute for Contemporary Culture (ICC) at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) continues its annual

Janet Waddington was a cherished ROM staff member for over 40 years. Even after her passing in 2020 following a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer, her legacy continues to flourish, leaving a

Museum’s annual fundraiser - the best game-show not on television! Fact? or Fiction?, the highly successful annual fundraising game organized by the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) Governors, returns for a

October 9, 2014, Toronto, ON -The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) Board of Governors announced today the appointment of Susan Horvath as its new President & CEO, beginning on Monday, December 1, 2014

Museum offers rare, real-time glimpse of nature in action For those who might wonder just how the skeletal remains of birds, squirrels and other vertebrate skeletons on display at the Royal Ontario

Genizot presents new work from internationally acclaimed author and artist Bernice Eisenstein Presentation is in conjunction with Holocaust Education Week 2014 Installation is on display at ROM from

On August 30, 2012 I posted a blog on the rediscovery of a very striking and important ancient Roman amethyst gem engraved with the image of Victory writing on a shield, dating to about 50 BC to AD 25

Two Longstanding Conflicting Views May Both Be Accurate New DNA studies by Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) researchers indicate that two opposing views on the origin of ratites, large flightless birds

Marvel at the striking colours of the natural world in this rainbow of an exhibition. TORONTO, September 24, 2024 – Nature in Brilliant Colour, an exhibition revealing the dynamic ways nature

Exhibition the only Canadian finalist in the international competition This month, the Society of Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) awarded the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) a 2010 Jury Award for the

One of the few minerals that form in bio-microsystems, such large and transparent crystals are few and far between. The ROM Mineralogy section recently acquired a suite of 26 apatite gems totalling

In the modern sense, a flag has a number of meanings that ultimately culminate into being a symbol, representative of some form of pride - pride in one's country or province, or in a particular

Submitted by: Susan Stock and Franziska Schlicht, ROM Conservation 948.34.41, Seated Isis, was brought to conservation in 1994 for examination and cleaning. It was clear that the head had been over

“The greatest crime ever committed by architects” - Robert Jan van Pelt, exhibition principal and University Professor, University of Waterloo School of Architecture “… a fresh perspective on a