Initiative supports commitment to build community and ensure Indigenous perspectives at the ROM TORONTO, May 22, 2018 — The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) Youth Cabinet and Wattpad, the global

TORONTO, May 16, 2018 — The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) invites visitors to explore the hunting, burrowing, and weaving world of spiders at the North American debut of Spiders: Fear & Fascination

TORONTO, May 10, 2018 – The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is proud to announce the establishment of the Richard M. Ivey Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology—the first endowed position of its kind in

Dome Dress to be featured in upcoming exhibition TORONTO, May 10, 2018 — The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is pleased to announce the acquisition of Iris van Herpen’s Dome Dress, from the Dutch fashion

At an Iris van Herpen show, impassive models walk the runway in garments like a 3-D printed polyamide suit that more resembles a bony exoskeleton, a dress sculpted from billows of metal gauze and cow

ROM-original exhibitions and programs drive record-breaking year TORONTO, May 2, 2018 — The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) today announced a record- breaking 1.44 million visitors for the fiscal year

What makes an object real or fake in a museum? Our newest digital publication explores that question as it studies the history of an ancient urn in the ROM’s collection. In Real Fake: The Story of a

TORONTO, April 19, 2018 – Coming this June, a new and original installation from Canadian artist and visionary architect Philip Beesley will be on display at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). Philip

TORONTO, April 18, 2018 – The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is pleased to announce that, starting today, the Daphne Cockwell Gallery dedicated to First Peoples art & culture will be open free-of-charge

TORONTO, April 11, 2018— Friday Night Live (#FNLROM) returns to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) on Friday, May 4, 2018, transforming Canada’s largest museum of art, culture, and nature into Toronto’s

For over a year, the Learning Department has been hard at work on the development of a new approach to museum virtual visits: building an online experience using an adventure map in Minecraft to teach

TORONTO, April 16, 2018 – The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) today announced plans to begin work on the Helga and Mike Schmidt Performance Terrace and the Reed Family Plaza. This initiative is part of the

­­TORONTO, April 5, 2018 – The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is pleased to announce a major retrospective of the visionary work of Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen. Featuring an impressive

Written by Piali Roy. A notorious murder case is one of the subjects of the ROM’s collection of mid-nineteenth century Kalighat paintings, an urban folk art style that developed around a popular Kali

TORONTO, March 28, 2018 — Josh Basseches, Director & CEO and Dr. Mark Engstrom, Deputy Director of Collections & Research of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), are pleased to announce the appointment of