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Anishinaabeg: Art & Power
Exhibition

Anishinaabeg

Explore the life, traditions, and sacred stories of the Anishinaabeg as told through their powerful art over the last two centuries. Anishinaabeg: Art & Power takes you on a journey through the
Exhibition

Collecting Asia

From 1908 to 1958 a group of influential individuals, scholars and art dealers were instrumental in building the ROM’s renowned Asian collections through offering financial support , their collecting
Iraq National Museum
Exhibition

Catastrophe! Ten Years Later

The premiere North American engagement of Mesopotamia: Inventing our World, presented by RSA Insurance is complemented by Catastrophe! Ten Years Later: The Looting and Destruction of Iraq’s Past
The Family camera portraits
Exhibition

The Family Camera

One Exhibition The Family Camera invites you to see family photographs differently. Tucked away in a box, framed on the wall, or saved to the cloud, personal photos are all around us in abundance. For
Opening Night for A Third Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Prints
Exhibition

A Third Gender

Four hundred years ago in Japan, male youths, called wakashu, were the objects of sexual desire for women and men. Creating a third gender, wakashu looked different from both women and adult men and
Royal Ontario Museum Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. Bloor Street Entrance.
Article

The ROM’s spellbinding horror exhibition from Metallica’s Kirk Hammett closing soon

TORONTO, December 2, 2019 — The Royal Ontario Museum’s (ROM) feature art exhibitions, It’s Alive! Classic Horror and Sci-Fi Art from the Kirk Hammett Collection , and Gods in My Home: Chinese New Year
Museum technician in a collections room with artifacts.
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Casas Grandes Ceramics

Outstanding collection comes out of the vaults for the second time in nearly 100 years. For only the second time in nearly 100 years, the ROM’s outstanding collection of Casas Grandes ceramics is out
Curator Fahmida Suleman
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Beliefs, Ambitions, Achievements, and Experiences

Curator Fahmida Suleman discusses the significance of the ROM’s Islamic Arts collection. After a 10-year stint at the British Museum, Fahmida Suleman is back home in Toronto as the ROM’s new Curator
Oxpeckers removing ticks from a bushbuck.
Article

Blood Ties

New ROM-original exhibition explores the science and legends around bloodfeeding. Did you know that there are more than 30,000 species of animals that feed on blood? Aside from the usual suspects that
Group of people looking at a fossil
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Blast From the Past

ROM palaeontologists discover Cambroraster, a voracious new Cambrian predator. With its rake-like claws, pineapple-slice-shaped mouth, and enormous head, Cambroraster falcatus is a small but mighty
A cloud of sulphuric gases surround a volcano
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Paradise Lost

Proximity to the Soufrière Hills volcano has had a dramatic impact on the bats of Montserrat. The Caribbean may conjure up images of sun, sand, and tropical getaways, but this seeming paradise exists
Painting of Cama Zotz
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Living Vampires

The vampire bat gets its name from shared traits with one of folklore’s most feared monsters. Vampire bats don’t eat solid food, nor do they drink water. They live solely on blood—a feat that has
In the ROM's Gallery of China, follow the unification of China's many independent states and the spread of Han culture with thematic displays including burial figures, status and luxury, farming, and household items
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The Warrior Emperor and China’s Terracotta Army

In 1974, farmers in northern China accidentally unearthed fragments of a terracotta figure - the first evidence of what would turn out to be one of the greatest archaeological finds in history. The
Graphic illustrating linking forms.
Article

Sequencing Vampire Bat DNA

Why are vampire bats the only mammals that are obligate blood feeders? Vampire bats have many unique adaptations that make them the only mammals that are obligate blood feeders. A key factor is the
Royal Ontario Museum Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. Bloor Street Entrance.
Exhibition

Margins

The Institute for Contemporary Culture (ICC) and the Koffler Centre of the Arts proudly present Margins at the Royal Ontario Museum, concurrently with Dead Sea Scrolls: Words that Changed the World