Programsat ROM

Featured Programs

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Family Day Weekend

Ready for a prehistoric adventure? This Family Day weekend, ROM is the place to get up close to real-life specimens, make your very own fossils, meet an animatronic Utahraptor, and so much more. Plus, learn how dinosaurs and other prehistorical animals shaped our world—and what they can teach us about the future. Family Day Hours Saturday, February 15 to Monday, February 17 10:00 am - 5:30 pm Celebrate Family Day Weekend with exclusive savings and fun for the whole family. From February 14 – 17, enjoy 20% off general admission and special exhibition tickets–plus, kids are FREE!* Important Note
Children at March Break camp looking through magnifying glass
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March Break Camp

Our huge variety of offerings ensures that you'll find a program to match your interest and abilities. ROM's fascinating galleries, authentic objects and outstanding professional staff guarantee that your camp experience will be hard to beat.
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ROM After Dark

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.
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ROM Speaks

Discover the power of ideas with ROM Speaks—a series that brings fascinating and thought-provoking voices to the forefront. Dive into compelling discussions on today’s most intriguing topics, hosted at the Museum. From culture and history to science and innovation, these events promise to challenge your perspective and spark meaningful conversations. Stay informed about upcoming programs by subscribing to our email communications and be the first to explore new insights and engaging dialogue. Please note that these events are offered exclusively in English. ROM Speaks is generously supported
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Third Tuesday Nights Free

The Museum will be free—for everyone—on the third Tuesday Night of each month. Includes access to most galleries* Ticket Policy Change: To ensure a smooth and organized experience, please pre-book tickets online and select your preferred time slot. Walk-in admissions are no longer available. To expedite entry, both the Queen's Park and School entrances will be open. Presenting Sponsor
Workshop in gallery
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Workshops

Do you dream of being a scientist, artist, or historian? Be one for a day, with unique experiences and hands-on activities at ROM. All workshops are for adults (18+) unless otherwise specified.

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Royal Ontario Museum Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. Bloor Street Entrance.
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Adventure ROM
Book a guided ROM tour for your troop or unit! For each new themed tour completed, Scouts and Girl Guides earn a ROM-exclusive badge to add to their collection.
Mosaic Ceiling – Rotunda
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Before Hours Tours
Experience the serenity of an exclusive tour of ROM before the Museum opens to the public. This early access opportunity allows you to appreciate art, culture, and nature in an intimate, uninterrupted setting, making it a truly unforgettable experience. Museum admission included in the cost of the tour.
3 children with crowns enjoying birthday party celebrated at ROM
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Birthday Parties
ROM Birthday Party packages are fully customizable. Design a day filled with adventure that perfectly fits your child’s dreams and budget.
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Bishop White Committee: Friends of East Asia
The Bishop White Committee, founded in 1960, is a group of people who have a special interest in learning about and supporting the activities of the East Asia Section – China, Japan and Korea.
Toucan in a tree
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Climate Change
An Active Voice for Climate Hope At ROM, we know that climate change is happening. We’ve seen the effects of it revealed in field and lab research, scientific study data, changing field expedition parameters, and much more. In a bold move, the Museum committed to share knowledge and insights from research, studies, data, and other fact-based evidence to help raise awareness of the effects of climate change, and in 2021, welcomed Dr. Soren Brothers, the first Allan and Helaine Shiff Curator of Climate Change. Through programming, exhibitions, gallery updates, education and kids programming, and
A group of Syrian children smile and wave Canadian flags in front of the ROM’s Schad Gallery of Biodiversity
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Community Access (ROMCAN)
Established in 2008, the ROM Community Access Network (ROMCAN) is ROM’s commitment to removing financial, social and cultural barriers for diverse communities to access the museum. Through the three pillars of social inclusion-we commit to being an institution that is reflective of, and in service to, diverse communities. Thanks to ROMCAN, ROM makes available 100,000 free visits every year. However, the defining feature of ROMCAN goes beyond just free admission, but rather, ROMCAN is about creating, strengthening and maintaining close collaboration with community groups across Ontario to
four people sitting at a table, having a fun conversation at the Royal Ontario Museum
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Conversations
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
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Earth Day
Earth Day is an internationally observed celebration promoting the protection and conservation of our planet and its myriad denizens, celebrated every April 22 across the globe. It is more than a celebration of our planet and its ecosystems – it’s a time to act and make the world a better place. The Royal Ontario Museum is committed to being part of the solution.
Timothy Snyder speaking at the Holtby lecture on November 21, 2017. Photo credit: L Milosjevic
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Eva Holtby Lecture on Contemporary Culture
The Annual Eva Holtby Lecture on Contemporary Culture brings powerful voices to the Royal Ontario Museum to discuss provocative and engaging contemporary ideas. Since its launch in 2006 with Adam Gopnik as the inaugural lecturer, the Holtby Lecture has been presented by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Glenn D. Lowry, Lewis H. Lapham, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Carlos Fuentes, Ingrid Betancourt, Anthony Gormley, Bob Colacello, Sheika Hoor al-Qasimi, Jameel Jaffer, Timothy Snyder, Jesse Wente and Laurie Anderson. The Eva Holtby Lecture is generously supported by the Holtby and Schury Families.
Kid with jawbone
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Family Day Weekend
Ready for a prehistoric adventure? This Family Day weekend, ROM is the place to get up close to real-life specimens, make your very own fossils, meet an animatronic Utahraptor, and so much more. Plus, learn how dinosaurs and other prehistorical animals shaped our world—and what they can teach us about the future. Family Day Hours Saturday, February 15 to Monday, February 17 10:00 am - 5:30 pm Celebrate Family Day Weekend with exclusive savings and fun for the whole family. From February 14 – 17, enjoy 20% off general admission and special exhibition tickets–plus, kids are FREE!* Important Note
Sandstone concretion "Gogotte"
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Friends of Earth and Space
The newly launched Friends of Earth Space is comprised of like-minded people who have a special interest in learning about rocks, minerals and gems from our planet as well as meteorites, which are samples from our solar system.
Fossilized bat skeleton
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Friends of Palaeontology
The Friends of Palaeontology is a group within the Department of Museum Volunteers. We are engaged in the story of life on earth as revealed in the fossil record. We promote ROM research by offering an exceptional opportunity to experience the ROM at a unique level.
Painting of people in a garden.
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Friends of South Asia
The Friends of South Asia supports the appreciation for and cultivates awareness of ROM’s Global South Asian gallery and collection. We strive to forge and maintain links with all those who are curious about and interested in Global South Asian art, culture and history. Global South Asia at ROM encompasses Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tibet, and their diasporas.
Left: 955.80.1.Coverlet Samuel Fry (Canadian weaver in Vineland ON, 1812 - 1881). Clinton Township, Lincoln County, Ontario, Canada. Twill diaper weave in coloured wool c. 1860. 211 x 199 cm. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. Burnham. ROM2017_15641_1. Right: 973.399.A-C. Robe à la française Spitalfields (London), England. Silk extended tabby (gros de Tours) with liseré self-patterning and brocading in silver lamella and filé Georgian Rococo. 1750s. Gift of the Fashion Group Inc. of Toronto in memory of Gwen Co
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Friends of Textiles & Costume
The Friends of Textiles & Costume support the ROM’s spectacular collection of textile and fashion objects that tell stories, interweave cultures and societies, and record intimate histories, politics and ingenious innovation. We strive to deepen one’s understanding of the rich, world-wide collection.
Quilled box with lid
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Friends of the Canadian Collections
If you like bats and beavers, birds and black flies, flowers and fungi, kayaks and canoes, moccasins and mukluks, armoires and armchairs, whales and watercolours.....you will feel right at home being a Friend of the Canadian Collections. Our mandate is to increase awareness of the richness of Canadian Culture and Natural History. We support curatorial purchases, research projects, gallery displays, visitor activities and ROM programs.