Activities at the ROM

A comprehensive series of gallery trails, videos, crafts, virtual tours, and other activities and resources are found below. Find what you need to engage with ROM’s collections before, during, and after your Museum visit. Whether you’re visiting with a school group, researching a project, or looking for fun games and activities to enjoy, there’s something here for everyone.

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Download and print Gallery Trails to explore galleries on your own at your own pace. Gallery Trails help school groups structure your self-guided time and focus your students’ attention. Share follow-up projects and activities with us #ROMLearning! You can also download app-based gallery quests on the apps page.

The text "at ROM" over the picture of a hand holding a phone showing a photo of a bison

Gallery Trail: Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2023

Discover the world's most striking wildlife photos!

  • Grades 4 - 12
  • Ages 8-10, 11-14, 14+
Computer on a desktop shows A print showing a man dreaming of a farting god and a person on horesback beneath the smiling face of a giant catfish. Words on image read "virtual ROM"

Virtual Exhibition Experience: Aftershocks: Japanese Earthquake Prints

Discover how humour and satire can be used to address the impacts of disaster

  • Grades 3 - 12
  • Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
A computer screen displays a Greek statue of a woman with red hair. Text reads Virtual ROM.

Virtual Exhibition Experience: Colours of Kore

See how this amazing sculpture makes us re-think our ideas about the past

  • Grades 3 - 8
  • Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14
Sleeping sperm whales

Virtual Exhibition Experience: Great Whales: Up Close and Personal

Journey into the deep with three great whales

  • Grades 4 - 12
  • Ages 8-10, 11-14, 14+
fish swim in a coral reef aquarium

Gallery Trail: Ocean Adventure

Dive into the Schad Gallery of Biodiversity and explore life beneath the waves

  • Grades 2 - 12
  • Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
a man and a cartoon turtle stand in front of a statue of Aphrodite

App: Pokémon GO - #PokeROM PokéStop Tour

Learn more about the museum's PokéStops!

  • Grades 1 - 12
  • Ages 0-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
Photo of students and a teacher examining a case of objects from Africa

Gallery Trail: Art of Africa

Discover the stories that art and objects tell about the people connected to them

  • Grades 6 - 12
  • Ages 11-14, 14+
Photo of a statue of a monk

Gallery Trail: Chinese Connections

Examine the objects used by common people, nobility, and royalty to discover more about China's vast history

  • Grades 2 - 12
  • Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
A class sits beneath a long-necked dinosaur

Gallery Trail: Dinosaur Discoveries

Discover fossil clues from that help us understand how dinosaurs lived millions of years ago

  • Grades 2 - 12
  • Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
A visitor examines a mineral specimen

Gallery Trail: Rocks Rock

Discover the treasures from the Earth we use every day, from the ordinary to the extraordinary!

  • Grades 2 - 12
  • Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
Photo of the entrance to the Schad gallery

Gallery Trail: Amazing Adaptations

Discover the amazing and diverse adaptations that help living things survive and thrive

  • Grades 2 - 12
  • Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
View of Egypt gallery from the entrance

Gallery Trail: Everyday Egyptians

Investigate the lives of the Ancient Egyptians

  • Grades 2 - 12
  • Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+