Join us for all-day family fun activities on Saturday, April 23.
Free with General Admission
Earth Day On-Site Activities
Saturday, April 23, unless stated otherwise
- City Nature Challenge: Explore the wildlife that calls Toronto home and learn how you can join iNature’s City Nature Challenge. Learn More
- Shadow Puppet Upcycling: Discuss how to reuse everyday household items to create something magical!
- Hide and Seek: Learn how to become a citizen scientist using iNature’s Seek App. Learn More
- Pollinating Toronto: Discover touch table activities that show how local plants and animals work together in the process of pollination, and how climate change is putting this in danger
- Upcycled Garden: Create and decorate your own flowers out of recycled materials
Climate Change Tours
Friday, April 22, Tours start at 1:00 pm and 1:15 pm
Visitors are invited to take part in 45-minute docent-guided tours to see objects which highlight climate change and how people can take actions that make a positive difference. Meet in Hyacinth Gloria Chen Court, Level 1, near the giant Futolongkasaurus dinosaur. No registration is required but space is limited.
Don't forget to check out these galleries to discover more about our amazing Earth:
- Life in Crisis: Schad Gallery of Biodiversity
- Gallery of Birds
- The Bat Cave
- Teck Suite of Galleries: Earth's Treasures
And dig deep into the story of life on Earth with:
- The James and Louise Temerty Galleries of the Age of Dinosaurs
- Reed Gallery of the Age of Mammals
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Willner Madge Gallery, Dawn of Life - our newest permanent paleontology gallery! Learn more.
ROM Connects
Watermark: A Conversation with Ed Burtynsky
Thursday, May 26 at 6:00 pm
Join ROM’s Soren Brothers and internationally acclaimed photographer Edward Burtynsky for a special screening of Jennifer Baichwal and Burtynsky’s visually dazzling documentary Watermark. The film brings together diverse stories from around the globe about our relationship with water: how we are drawn to it, what we learn from it, how we use it, and the consequences of that use. Following the screening, Brothers and Burtynsky will explore humanity’s relationship with water. Registration for this in-person event begins on April 22. Learn More
At-Home Activities
Curator Conversations: Reframing the Climate Crisis
Drawing on her interdisciplinary research and personal stories, join climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe in conversation with ROM’s Allan and Helaine Shiff Curator of Climate Change, Soren Brothers, as she makes the case for hope and healing as we face the greatest existential crisis in humanity’s history. Learn More
Curator Conversation: Parasitic Oscillations
Poet and scientist Madhur Anand joins ROM’s Santiago Claramunt for an engaging talk about her newest collection of poems, Parasitic Oscillations. Drawing on her own experiences and examining contemporary environments, her work resonates against the backdrop of unprecedented ecological change. Intersecting art, culture, and nature, it is an enlightening and profoundly beautiful collection that asks questions about our relationship with ourselves, birds and animals, and the living world around us. Learn More