At ROM a world of wonder awaits visitors this holiday season from December 26 to January 7. TORONTO, December 5, 2023 – Experience the best of the season with friends and family during ROM for the

More than a decade after the Afghan war began in 2001, Shamsia Hassani was promulgated to international fame as one of Afghanistan’s first female graffiti artists. Where the violence of war had

In lieu of a baby, Leslie McCue cradled a plush toy shark. This was in 2018, back when Leslie, a member of the Mississaugas of Curve Lake First Nation, was working as an Indigenous Museum Educator

What does it mean to designate a new epoch defined by human activity? According to Soren Brothers, the Allan and Helaine Shiff Curator of Climate Change, it is a chance to define our fundamental

As a PhD student in Berlin, I studied two shallow lakes in the heart of Brandenburg forests. Although these lakes were similar in many ways, one of them had “flipped” at some point in the previous

Being and Belonging: Contemporary Women Artists from the Islamic World and Beyond is an exhibition about claiming space and place for women as equal commentators on the world we live in today. As in

The global fashion industry is worth more than $1.5 trillion dollars—about as much as the annual gross domestic product of Australia. Any industry that big has a substantial impact on planetary

As ROM Curator Emeritus K. Corey Keeble notes in Judaica: The Dr. Fred Weinberg and Joy Cherry Weinberg Collection at the Royal Ontario Museum, “It is plain, with no inscriptions.” Put simply, it’s

TORONTO, October 30, 2023 – Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is pleased to announce the appointment of Leela Outcalt to Chief of Collections Care. In this newly created role, Outcalt is responsible for the