Royal Ontario Museum

Take an inside look at the inaugural ROM Immortal Gala, celebrating the Museum’s world-class collections, the art of fashion, and the launch of the ROM Immortal Award honouring leadership and innovation.

✨ Introducing the ROM Immortal Gala ✨   On November 4, 2025, the Museum will proudly present the ROM Immortal Gala: The Art of Fashion. This sold-out event will raise vital funds in support of the Museum and its world-class exhibitions and programs, with a theme and décor inspired by ROM’s extraordinary department of Global Fashion and Textiles—housing the second largest collection of its kind in North America.   Hosted by esteemed journalist Lisa LaFlamme, the Gala will also mark the launch of the ROM Immortal Award, honouring a trailblazer whose creativity and tenacity has forever changed their field. This year, we will celebrate inaugural recipient Suzanne Rogers for her immeasurable contributions to the art of fashion.   We are grateful to partner with Rogers Communications as the Gala's Presenting Sponsor, helping make this extraordinary evening possible.   #ROMImmortalGala ROM Governors

The countdown is on! ⏳ BASF's National Chemistry Week celebrations kick off this weekend at the Royal Ontario Museum! Bring your family, roll up your sleeves, and watch colours separate while creating beautiful butterflies with our Chromatography Butterfly BASF Kids’ Lab experiment. 🦋🎨 🗓️Saturday and Sunday, October 18–19 ⏰From 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 📍At ROM’s Makerspace Hub, located on level 1 #BASFnationalchemistryweek #NationalChemistryWeek #STEAMeducation #scienceeducation #BASFkidslab #STEMEd #EarlyChildhoodEducation #learningbydoing

AT THE ROM!!! "Working at the intersections of sculpture, performance, and sound, Royal Ontario Museum welcomes Zimbabwe-born international artist MASIMBA HWATI to Toronto. Known for his unconventional three-dimensional mixed media sculptures, Hwati’s work examines significant objects – historically and culturally – and archives and repositions them in the present day. Join newly appointed Curator of Global Africa Tandazani Dhlakama in conversation with Masimba Hwati as they talk about his practice, and the intersection of sound and resistance in his work." Date: Wednesday, Oct 15, 2025 Time: 19:00 Location: Level B1, Eaton Theatre https://lnkd.in/g4G7t9Nc

Nearly 50 years since the discovery of a mystery “Toronto Subway Deer” antler, modern DNA analysis on the specimen is revealing new insights about a long-lost species. 🧬   The research by Dr. Aaron Shafer, professor of Forensic Science at Trent, and Dr. Camille Kessler, a grad student in Environmental & Life Sciences, was done in collaboration with the Royal Ontario Museum at its ancient DNA lab and will be published in Biology Letters. Learn more about the findings in The New York Times: https://lnkd.in/g7XSxh6s

I am thrilled to share that I am the Veronika Gervers Fellow at the Royal Ontario Museum for my fustanella recreation project. Veronika Gervers laid the foundation for the study of clothing and textiles in Ottoman Eastern Europe that does not abide by recent borders or nationalism, tracing shared influences in textile, technique, and silhouette across ethnicities. I am honoured to be conducting my research at the ROM, building on the legacy of her work.

If you're just jumping on the Toronto Blue Jays bandwagon, don't worry - making sense of our complicated world is what we do here at the Museum! We've put together a one-page guide of everything you need to know to avoid sounding like a fairweather fan over the next month. #LetsGoBlueJays Looking to dive deeper? You'll find everything you ever wanted to know about the jays, cardinals, and orioles in our brand new ROM Field Guide to the Birds of Ontario, available through the ROM Boutique, and fine book stores across the province: https://lnkd.in/gKs2FhzS

A remarkable little lake in Ontario that has intrigued archaeologists, biologists, and geologists for decades holds an extraordinary record of our impact on the planet – and a potential global marker for the start of the Anthropocene. Our newest ROM-original exhibition Crawford Lake: Layers in Time, opens September 27, 2025. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gRvxFvNF

Tune-in to see Antonia Guidotti, ROM Collection Technician – Entomology, make an appearance in TVO's The Extraordinary Caterpillar, which takes viewers on a playful and extraordinary visual journey into the little-known world of this tiny superhero of biodiversity. Stunning macro images in this film shine a microscopic spotlight to reveal their unique beauty. Scientists and citizens share how these incredible creatures play an essential role in our planet’s food web. https://lnkd.in/gCFbhDdt