Programsat ROM

Minecraft: Education Edition is a game-based learning platform that promotes creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving in an immersive digital environment. For several years, the ROM has invited students onto its pilot Minecraft server to build meaningful, personalized learning across a wide variety of themes including science, resource use, community, cultural respect, and the cascading impacts of individual actions. We are very excited to introduce a new hybrid learning Minecraft program that can be run from your own classroom! Virtual visits are coordinated with a ROM Educator at key

From fascinating to thought-provoking, ROM Speaks presents compelling voices on hot topics. Explore engaging issues at the Museum and experience our world, discussed. #ROMSpeaks For program updates join our email list. These events are offered in English only. ROM Speaks is generously supported by The Schmidt Family.

Whether you’re an amateur or professional photographer, ROM invites you to share your captivating images of the natural world for a chance to win some amazing prizes and have your photograph on display at the Museum. Open to all residents of Ontario, read on to find out about this year’s incredible prizes and how to enter. Contest generously supported by Henry’s and Sony.

Have you discovered ROMBus? ROMBus is back on the road for another year! Join us for unique, interesting day trips to locations of historical, natural, and cultural interest within Toronto and its surrounding areas. With convenient departure and return locations, and travel by comfortable motorcoach, ROMBus welcomes day trippers with tours featuring fascinating itineraries with local specialist guides, all hosted by experienced ROM volunteers. This year, ROMBus offers four diverse, engaging day trips. Choose one or more and enjoy a trip with us. ROMBus is organized by ROM’s Department of

Bring your child on an eight-week sensory adventure as you tour galleries with our early learning instructors, and join them in creative play-based activities, and social interaction in a classroom setting. Meet other parents, caregivers, and children and engage your child in interactive learning for life.

Kids have special access to hands-on learning at the Museum. Register your kids ages 5 – 14 for a full day of ROM Camp. This one-day version of our popular Summer Club program provides a full day of supervised educational activities, art projects, science experiments, and more!

Art, culture and nature tours to thoroughly researched destinations throughout the world, accompanied by expert resource people.

Organized by ROM’s Department of Museum Volunteers, ROMWalks started in 1980 as an outreach program for the Museum when it was closed for renovations. The program has grown over the years, with dozens of walk itineraries, six months of regularly scheduled free walks, and a growing number of extremely satisfied ROMWalks walkers. Discover Toronto with ROMWalks, a collection of guided walking tours that take participants on a unique journey of urban discovery. Offered each year from May to October, rain or shine, each walk combines the excitement of exploring diverse and vibrant neighbourhoods

ROMWalks Plus are guided walking tours of Toronto organized by the Royal Ontario Museum’s Department of Museum Volunteers to provide support for the Museum. The tours started in 1980 as an outreach program for the ROM when it was closed for renovations. ROMWalks encompass the diverse aspects of Toronto's vibrant neighbourhoods including history, architecture, arts of all varieties, education , and more. ROMWalks Plus walks allow guests to experience new walks that have not yet been released to the general public, in small groups led by our most experienced guides. They are a ticketed

This Saturday version of our popular Summer Club program provides supervised, hands-on educational activities, art projects, science experiments, and more. ROM's fascinating galleries, authentic objects and outstanding professional staff guarantee that your camp experience will be hard to beat! Every fall, winter and spring children will enjoy eight Saturdays of fun-filled, educational adventures in ROM's inspiring galleries. ROMKids Saturday Club is generously supported by the Philip and Berthe Morton Foundation.

Set your kids up for a summer of fun times and creative learning. Summer Club is back – celebrating its 82nd year – with immersive, in-person camp programs unlike anything else in the city. Engaging, energetic, and full of activities, our summer programs feature classroom and in-gallery learning, bringing kids face to face with the stories held within the vast art, culture, and nature collections at ROM. Summer Club groups welcome kids ages 5-16 with a variety of themed sessions for different age groups. From ancient Egypt to prehistoric dinosaurs, there’s something for everyone, and new

Curious about art, culture, and nature? Learn why these topics matter within and beyond Museum walls. Talks at ROM offer engaging moments of thought-provoking learning with experts and objects from, and inspired by, collections in the Museum. Upcoming talks are identified as either at ROM or Online. All are Free with RSVP.

ROM offers specialized training programs, development and networking opportunities for Ontario educators and teaching professionals. Stay informed on new activities and resources as they become available. Sign up for our School Visits Enewsletter.

Fun and easy-to-plan, ROM's team building activities are as simple as choosing the date and what you want to do.

The Indigenous Advisory Circle (IAC) was established in 2014 and is comprised of 6-8 members who meet each season to provide recommendations to the ROM School Programs' Indigenous education objectives and advise on other Museum initiatives as requested. The IAC representation is a mix of urban, rural, and remote communities that come from distinct Indigenous cultures and abilities. Members include elders, knowledge carriers, educators, artists, French speakers, youth, and allies with cross-disciplinary knowledges and interests in the arts, sciences, and technology.