About ROM's Online Collection
The Royal Ontario Museum is home to a world-class collection of 18 million artworks, cultural objects, and natural history specimens, featured in 40 gallery and exhibition spaces.
The ROM is in the process of digitizing its collection, and images on the website are being updated regularly. We have chosen to post all available images until new photography becomes available. Some of the images are not suitable for publication and are not available as a high resolution image file.
For information on and permission to use ROM images, including licensing requests, and other ROM media such as film or video, please contact:
Rights & Reproductions
Tel.: 416.586.5590
Fax: 416.586.5642
E-mail: images@rom.on.ca
Requesting Images
Rights and Reproductions receives requests for image use. Our clients include museums and art galleries, book and magazine publishers, film and television production companies, non-profit organizations, academic institutions, students and researchers. If you would like to use a high-resolution ROM image for your research, in a publication, presentation, or video, please fill out our Image Request Form.
LH Stone Collections Mgmt
The project to implement the Louise Hawley Stone Collections Management System began in 2015, with a goal to integrate 44 disparate collections databases into a single, robust, flexible platform for the creation, collection, management, reporting, dissemination, and archiving of collection information. To date, more than 2 million object and specimen records from every curatorial discipline across art, culture, and nature have been successfully migrated. For the first time in its history, ROM’s collection is in a single system of record that all staff can access, thereby facilitating and simplifying a wide range of museum activities including research, registration, archival, location tracking, object conservation, exhibition planning, photography, rights & reproductions, and online publication.
The Collections Management System is named for one of the Museum’s greatest patrons, the late Louise Hawley Stone. Mrs. Stone was passionate about ROM and its outstanding collections, and had a particular interest in documenting and disseminating information about the collections – the context and stories – for the public, the research community and other institutions.
According to Dr. Mark Engstrom, Senior Curator Emeritus and former Deputy Director of Collections & Research, “Mrs. Stone knew that ROM’s world-class collections on their own are a disparate set of silent objects. The contextual information associated with those objects and collections is critical – as important in some ways as the objects themselves. It’s why we have curators to assemble, document and interpret the collections, and why she was so enthusiastic about not just new acquisitions and research, but also publishing.”
ROM is grateful to the Louise Hawley Stone Charitable Trust for generously supporting this important initiative.
About
ROM’s Louise Hawley Stone Collections Management System is a working database with a team of experts continuously adding new objects. With a collection as large and diverse as the ROM’s, some catalogue records may not reflect the current state of knowledge. Please send corrections or additional information to romcollections@rom.on.ca.
This project was made possible by the generous support of Nancy and Jon Love.
