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The Royal Ontario Museum offers diverse exhibitions spanning ancient civilizations, natural history, and contemporary art.

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Featured exhibition

Auschwitz.

Not long ago. Not far away.

Until September 2025

Black and white archival image showing train tracks in the foreground leading into the distance towards the entrance to the Auschwitz camp.

Featured exhibition

Nature in Brilliant Colour

Until August 2025

Projection of a planet with a silhouette of a man with his hands in the air looking at a large projection of a planet

Featured exhibition

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2024

Until May 04, 2025

A manatee and a calf adrift underwater among eelgrass.

ROM Immortal:

Nature's Symphony

Until August 2025

Chimp holding and looking at blue butterfly on finger

Chinese Zodiac Case

Year of the Snake

Until February 2026

Set of Zodiac Animals

Picnics and Pastimes

Until November 2025

Tile arch with picnic scene, around 1685-95. Probably Talar-e-Tavileh Palace, Isfahan, Iran.

Cloudscape

Until June 2025

Paper clouds floating above Chinese statues

ROM guest enjoying RAD event

Lunar Love

People move around a gallery of dinosaur skeletons.

An artist's illustration of an ancient sea scape teeming with life.

WonderWorks Hands-on Gallery, interactive experience, children

A gallery full of various pottery, ceramics, and statues.

This white rhino is a rare specimen and the centerpiece of the Life in Crisis: Schad Gallery of Biodiversity.

The Age of Dinosaurs Dawn of Life WonderWorks China Life in Crisis

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3 children with crowns enjoying birthday party celebrated at ROM

This Saturday version of our popular Summer Club program provides supervised, hands-on educational activities, art projects, science experiments, and more. ROM's fascinating galleries, authentic objects and outstanding professional staff guarantee that your camp experience will be hard to beat! Every fall, winter and spring children will enjoy eight Saturdays of fun-filled, educational adventures in ROM's inspiring galleries. ROMKids Saturday Club is generously supported by the Philip and Berthe Morton Foundation.

Child enjoying ROM Kids Junior program with parent watching

Bring your child on an eight-week sensory adventure as you tour galleries with our early learning instructors, and join them in creative play-based activities, and social interaction in a classroom setting. Meet other parents, caregivers, and children and engage your child in interactive learning for life.

3 children enjoying an activity at ROM Kids PA Day Camp

ROMKids PA Day Camp

Kids have special access to hands-on learning at the Museum. Register your kids ages 5 – 14 for a full day of ROM Camp. This one-day version of our popular Summer Club program provides a full day of supervised educational activities, art projects, science experiments, and more!

Tour of the Samuel European Galleries

Free with Museum admission, daily tours are offered to the public by trained volunteer Docents. Tours include general Museum tours, and specific gallery tours. Tours of special exhibitions are surcharged.

ROM After Dark (RAD) is an exciting 19+ after-hours event series that transforms the Museum like never before. This unique nighttime celebration features live music, pop-up performances, groundbreaking visual arts, and distinctive food and drink. Each themed event offers a fresh, exciting way to explore ROM, with experiences ranging from live DJ sets to interactive workshops, ensuring no two nights are ever the same.

four people sitting at a table, having a fun conversation at the Royal Ontario Museum

Have you ever been so moved, fascinated, or impressed by an object, specimen, or work of art, that you wish you could talk about it with others? Conversations is a new program series of informal gatherings at ROM that invite you to engage with other individuals on topics of interest. Relax as you discuss specific collections, objects or themes of exhibitions, or take a tour followed by refreshments and conversation. You can also practice your language skills every month in sessions designed for newcomers, immigrants, and English language learners. In past programs we have gathered to talk

3 children with crowns enjoying birthday party celebrated at ROM

This Saturday version of our popular Summer Club program provides supervised, hands-on educational activities, art projects, science experiments, and more. ROM's fascinating galleries, authentic objects and outstanding professional staff guarantee that your camp experience will be hard to beat! Every fall, winter and spring children will enjoy eight Saturdays of fun-filled, educational adventures in ROM's inspiring galleries. ROMKids Saturday Club is generously supported by the Philip and Berthe Morton Foundation.

Child enjoying ROM Kids Junior program with parent watching

Bring your child on an eight-week sensory adventure as you tour galleries with our early learning instructors, and join them in creative play-based activities, and social interaction in a classroom setting. Meet other parents, caregivers, and children and engage your child in interactive learning for life.

3 children enjoying an activity at ROM Kids PA Day Camp

ROMKids PA Day Camp

Kids have special access to hands-on learning at the Museum. Register your kids ages 5 – 14 for a full day of ROM Camp. This one-day version of our popular Summer Club program provides a full day of supervised educational activities, art projects, science experiments, and more!

Tour of the Samuel European Galleries

Free with Museum admission, daily tours are offered to the public by trained volunteer Docents. Tours include general Museum tours, and specific gallery tours. Tours of special exhibitions are surcharged.

ROM After Dark (RAD) is an exciting 19+ after-hours event series that transforms the Museum like never before. This unique nighttime celebration features live music, pop-up performances, groundbreaking visual arts, and distinctive food and drink. Each themed event offers a fresh, exciting way to explore ROM, with experiences ranging from live DJ sets to interactive workshops, ensuring no two nights are ever the same.

four people sitting at a table, having a fun conversation at the Royal Ontario Museum

Have you ever been so moved, fascinated, or impressed by an object, specimen, or work of art, that you wish you could talk about it with others? Conversations is a new program series of informal gatherings at ROM that invite you to engage with other individuals on topics of interest. Relax as you discuss specific collections, objects or themes of exhibitions, or take a tour followed by refreshments and conversation. You can also practice your language skills every month in sessions designed for newcomers, immigrants, and English language learners. In past programs we have gathered to talk