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A Passion for Music and the Arts Inspires a $3M Leadership Gift

A Passion for Music and the Arts Inspires a $3M Leadership Gift

Helga Schmidt is a lover of operetta and live performance, and a benefactor of many cultural organizations in Europe. As lead donors, she and her late husband Mike Schmidt have made a transformational gift to the Love the ROM Centennial Campaign.   Arriving in Canada from Germany in 1956 with

Snakes, Dragons and Spiders, Oh My! Its ROM alive weekend!

Submitted Schmog, resident bearded dragon in the ROM’s live animal room This weekend the ROM will be hopping with live animals and those who study them!! The Animals are out for you to see and touch and there will be some of my buddies from ROM’s very own Live Room. Come to the ROM for Awesome

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Regular Hours of Operation Open Tuesday – Sunday: 10:00 am to 5:30 pm Closed Mondays Open on Statutory Holidays   RECOMMENDED ON Royal Ontario Museum Tickets Take advantage of Plan Ahead Pricing! We encourage visitors to purchase tickets in advance for the best savings. When you book your

Beneath the Surface: Photographing at the Edge of Imagination

Beneath the Surface: Photographing at the Edge of Imagination

Guest Blog written by Environmental Visual Communication student Sam Rose Phillips Walking through the ROM’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year (WPY) exhibition is a powerful experience. Backlit photograph after backlit photograph, we are immersed within and invited into the most stunning moments,

Community Access Partners

  The ROM works with 100 community partners to deliver inclusive museum experiences to a diverse range of communities across Ontario. While the ROM has listed each partner under a specific category on this page, please note that most of our partners work with communities with intersectional

Life in Crisis: Schad Gallery of Biodiversity

Life in Crisis: Schad Gallery of Biodiversity

Life is Diverse. Life is Interconnected. Life is at Risk.  The Schad Gallery is our space to explore and display life on planet earth: life in the recent past, now and in the future.  Our extensive natural history collections – from “Bull” the Southern White Rhino to our live coral reef –

Historic South Rosedale Artist Studio

Submitted by Regina Virgo, Department of Museum Volunteers On our ROMwalk tour of the western section of South Rosedale, we’ll descend into the Rosedale Ravine via Park Road, originally a corduroy road constructed by Sheriff William Botsford Jarvis to make the trip to Rosedale more convenient and

Joanne Smith

Joanne Smith is a graduate of the Institute of Holistic Nutrition in Toronto, holds a degree in psychology from York University, as well as a diploma in radio & television broadcasting from Seneca College.  Joanne has dedicated her career to raising awareness of the issues concerning people

Invertebrate Life in the Ocean: Curator’s Corner

Hello, I’m Claire Healy, Associate Curator of Invertebrate Zoology here at the ROM. It’s almost that time again – Curator’s Corner is gearing up to bring you another opportunity to meet a curator (me!) and learn a bit more about the animals here at the museum, and the delightful organisms

Hippos and Whales: Unlikely Cousins

Hippos and Whales: Unlikely Cousins

Guest blog written by Environmental Visual Communication student Natasha Hirt Looking at whales, you might have a hard time figuring out where they fit into the mammalian family tree. In fact, hippopotamus are actually whales’ closest “cousins”, and they're much more closely related