Royal Ontario Museum

Share the night with the fishing cat, Pallas’s cat, Eurasian lynx, wildcat and other feline friends when ROM opens special exhibition Wild Cats for FREE during on Saturday, October 5!

The all-night cat party starts at 7 p.m. and goes 'til 7 a.m. 🐈

*Please note that the full Museum is not open for Nuit Blanche.

Join us for Third Tuesday Nights Free tomorrow (4:30 pm - 8:30 pm) and enjoy free access to our galleries, special exhibition Quilts: Made in Canada, and live performances from our community partners!

Upgrade your free visit and experience the new exhibitions Earth: An Immersive Journey for $9 and Wild Cats for $13, or see both for $17.50.

For more info, please visit: https://www.rom.on.ca/en/third-tuesday-nights-free

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This quilt, by Elizabeth McLean Harrison, contains scraps of cotton and homespun wool, a fabric produced by families at home rather than made in factories. At the outer edge, you will see Harrison constructed some of the squares from multiple tiny pieces - in one instance, twenty-four. Every scrap was critical.

The homespun wool dress, from the 1860s, is rare: most examples we have of this kind of fabric are in quilt patches rather than full outfits. Often, quilts offer a unique way to see the fabrics people used in their daily lives more than 150 years ago.

From the permanent collections at ROM comes a new exhibition highlighting some of the most visually intoxicating examples of artistry, community, and sustainability. Quilts: Made in Canada is on now until Nov. 17!

Did you know ROM offers guided walks through many of Toronto's historic neighbourhoods?

There's a walk every Sunday until October 20th. Check out the upcoming schedule of ROMWalks, and join us in getting to know a little more about your city!

ROMWalks ROMWalks 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 with the expertise of k...

We are open for Labour Day! Come by to see this Eight-Pointed Star pieced quilt from our exhibition, Quilts: Made in Canada.

Mary “Esther” Hall likely made this quilt for her marriage to Michael Downey in 1848. It contains a variety of fabrics from the early 1800s, when advancements in textile printing allowed for tinier designs. The age of the textiles shows that quilters could keep fabric for decades before using them in a quilt.

The oldest textiles in the quilt are the dark blue squares with white vines or dots, dating between the 1810s and 1820s. The brown fabrics and florals are from between the 1830s and 1840s. The child’s dress is from the same period and similar to some of the fabrics in the quilt.

Slow down and embrace the wonders of nature in Earth: An Immersive Journey—a multisensory tour through several of our planet’s vibrant ecosystems.

Exhibition content created by and co-produced with MHNH .

On now until January 12, 2025.

We don’t mean to alarm you, but there is only one week left to take advantage of our Free Main Floor and 7-days-a-week operating hours! 🌞

In honour of , Scully the dog is here to help soften (and cute-n) the delivery of this message, decked out in this super stylish hat that can be found at ROM Boutique. Save 20% (30% for members) on your shop purchases until September 2 in our Summer Sale!

"Best quilts" like this one were the finest bedcovers women brought into a marriage.

They were an opportunity to show off sewing and design skills. The quilt contains a mix of fashion textiles from the mid-1830's. Its print is similar to some of the quilt's textiles, which indicates the bedcover was probably made around 1840 or later. The wide variety of colours and styles may indicate the materials were brought especially for this quilt, rather than salvaged from existing clothing.

From the permanent collections at ROM comes a new exhibition highlighting some of the most visually intoxicating examples of artistry, community, and sustainability. Quilts: Made in Canada is on now until Nov. 17!

Join us for Third Tuesday Nights Free tomorrow (4:30 pm - 8:30 pm) and enjoy free access to our galleries, special exhibition Quilts: Made in Canada, and live performances from our community partners!

Upgrade your free visit and experience the new exhibitions Earth: An Immersive Journey for $9 and Wild Cats for $13, or see both for $17.50.

For more info, please visit: https://www.rom.on.ca/en/third-tuesday-nights-free

Look closely at this quilt: it's made of over 8000 light and dark triangles, each less than 2 cm long and hand-stitched together to create an intricate pattern from the smallest scraps.

The patient maker who sewed it worked outwards from the centre, creating a series of rectangular frames that slowly increase to build a quilt.

From the permanent collections at ROM comes a new exhibition highlighting some of the most visually intoxicating examples of artistry, community, and sustainability. Quilts: Made in Canada is on now until Nov. 17!

Slow down and embrace the wonders of nature in Earth: An Immersive Journey—a multisensory tour through several of our planet’s vibrant ecosystems.

This exhibition brings habitats to life through high-definition projections, scent diffusions, spatial audio, and atmospheric low lighting. Visitors are encouraged to immerse themselves in each ecosystem for at least 10 minutes to fully appreciate the experience.

Earth: An Immersive Journey is on now through January 12, 2025.

Looking for something fun to do for the long weekend? ROM is open all weekend, including Monday, Aug. 05, from 10:00 am - 5:30 pm ☀️

Pop in and enjoy our 3 special exhibitions - Wild Cats and Earth: An Immersive Journey on Level 01, and Quilts: Made in Canada on Level 04!

At first glance, the pink and green textiles in this quilt look the same. Look closer - there are eight different pink fabrics and seven unique green prints. This quilt was made in the mid-1800s, when advances in the textile industry created cheaper and more varied cotton prints.

The fabric of the infant dress is a close match to some of the pinks in the quilt. Records date the dress to 1837, so the similar fabrics help us understand when the quilt was likely made. Shown together, these items underscore the value of textiles: families saved usable fabrics because they might eventually be of use in a quilt.

"[Aubrey] Beardsley’s short but illustrious career established his name as one of the most important graphic artists of the late 19th century." - Jennifer Kinnaird

Learn more about his illustrations here:

The Art of Aubrey Beardsley The illustrator-author’s short but illustrious career established his name as one of the most important graphic artists of the late 19th century

"A blocky Minecraft-like person tears through a spooky moonlit forest. Behind them, a giant, yellow-eyed monster gives chase. All seems hopeless until the person comes across… a pair of moccasins." - Colin J. Fleming

Through a joint ROM-Ubisoft Toronto partnership, students participate in fully playable video games—all rooted in Indigenous knowledge.

Kids “Hack the ROM” Through a joint ROM-Ubisoft partnership, students participate in fully playable video games—all rooted in Indigenous knowledge.

We're adding even more free access to the Museum in partnership with Toronto Public Library's tpl:map program. Passes available through your library now include ROM special exhibitions! Plus, more passes are available every month to make it even easier to connect with art, culture and nature here at ROM.

Learn more about the tpl:map program and participating culture institutions. All you need is a library card!

tpl:map tpl:map offers free admission to Toronto's museums, art galleries and attractions with your Toronto Public Library card.