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

Why should ROM curators care about a proposal to create an organization that would make rules for how species of living things are named? Naming the things around us is a fundamental part of being

“Wonderfully subversive exhibition resists the idea that viewers must walk away with an easy grasp of Black Canadian identity” Chris Rattan, NOW Magazine “…a vital update on what it means to be a

TORONTO, March 8, 2018 — Josh Basseches, Director & CEO of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), announced today the appointment of Shyam Oberoi as Chief Digital Officer (CDO), responsible for overseeing

Guest blog written by Environmental Visual Communication student Viridiana Jimenez. Right whales were featured heavily in the news throughout the latter half of 2017, unfortunately for dire reasons

TORONTO, March 6, 2018— VIKINGS: The Exhibition sets sail from the ROM on Monday, April 2, 2018. This is the last chance to experience this fascinating exhibition of rarely seen objects, offering a

Inspired by the stunning Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, the Ontario-wide ROM Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest returned for its 3rd year –with incredible prizes for both adult

Guest blog written by Environmental Visual Communication student Ursula McClintock. In some Indigenous communities around the world, whaling is as much a part of their tradition as my family’s turkey

TORONTO, February 22, 2018 — The world-renowned Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, on now at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), will close March 18, 2018. Featuring 100 original, awe-inspiring

TORONTO, February 20, 2018 — Spiders inhabit nearly every corner of the globe, and this summer they will take over the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in an astonishing exhibition that explores how these