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The Royal Ontario Museum offers diverse exhibitions spanning ancient civilizations, natural history, and contemporary art.

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Featured Exhibitions

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Featured exhibition

Auschwitz.

Not long ago. Not far away.
Until
Black and white archival image showing train tracks in the foreground leading into the distance towards the entrance to the Auschwitz camp.
Featured exhibition

Nature in Brilliant Colour

Until
Projection of a planet with a silhouette of a man with his hands in the air looking at a large projection of a planet
Featured exhibition

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2024

Until
A manatee and a calf adrift underwater among eelgrass.

Featured Events

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Canyon Diablo, North America, USA, Arizona, Cocona.
Jan 26
13:00
Workshops

On the Origins of Life - An Introduction to Meteorites and Meteor-wrongs at ROM

Adults
Age 18+
Jan 28
19:00 - 22:00
ROM Speaks

Saul Rubinek (Sold Out)

Adults
Age 18+
Jan 31
20:30 - 23:30
ROM After Dark

On the Wildside

Adults (19+)
Age 19+
Medusaceratops. Image courtesy Andrey Atuchin.
Feb 01
12:30 - 17:00
Workshops

Palaeontologist for a Day - Exploring an 80-million- year-old fossil

Adults
Age 18+

Online collection

The Royal Ontario Museum is home to a world-class collection of 13 million artworks, cultural objects, and natural history specimens, featured in 40 gallery and exhibition spaces.

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Tour guide at ROM giving a tour to a group

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School Visits

Connect your students to objects from cultures throughout human history and specimens.

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An artist's illustration of an ancient sea scape teeming with life.
WonderWorks Hands-on Gallery, interactive experience, children
A gallery full of various pottery, ceramics, and statues.
This white rhino is a rare specimen and the centerpiece of the Life in Crisis: Schad Gallery of Biodiversity.
People look around a gallery with a fall scene, including trees with red leaves.

Featured Galleries

Dawn of Life WonderWorks China Life in Crisis Hands-on Biodiversity
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Our Programs

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Saturday Club
Program
Saturday Club
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.
ROMKids Junior
Program
ROMKids Junior
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.
ROMKids Day Camp
Program
ROMKids PA Day Camp
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!
Tour of the Samuel European Galleries
Program
Museum Tours
Free with Museum admission, daily tours are offered to the public by trained volunteer Docents. Tours include general Museum tours, and specific gallery tours. Tours of special exhibitions are surcharged.
4 ROM guests posing with arms extended
Program
Urban Capers Scavenger Hunts
Members receive a $15 discount* on Urban Capers Scavenger Hunts at ROM. Solve a murder mystery in the classic caper, Intrigue at the Museum. Track down a missing explorer in a brand-new hunt, The Adventures of Indie Santiago. Gather your team and don your detective caps because tickets for public weekend hunts are on sale now.
Jameel Jaffer and Charles Stenkievich ©Lisa Milosavijevic
Program
Talks
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.
Saturday Club
Program
Saturday Club
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.
ROMKids Junior
Program
ROMKids Junior
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.
ROMKids Day Camp
Program
ROMKids PA Day Camp
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!
Tour of the Samuel European Galleries
Program
Museum Tours
Free with Museum admission, daily tours are offered to the public by trained volunteer Docents. Tours include general Museum tours, and specific gallery tours. Tours of special exhibitions are surcharged.
4 ROM guests posing with arms extended
Program
Urban Capers Scavenger Hunts
Members receive a $15 discount* on Urban Capers Scavenger Hunts at ROM. Solve a murder mystery in the classic caper, Intrigue at the Museum. Track down a missing explorer in a brand-new hunt, The Adventures of Indie Santiago. Gather your team and don your detective caps because tickets for public weekend hunts are on sale now.
Jameel Jaffer and Charles Stenkievich ©Lisa Milosavijevic
Program
Talks
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.