ROM Learning

Founded in 1914, the Royal Ontario Museum showcases art, culture and nature from around the world and across the ages. Among the top 10 cultural institutions in North America, Canada’s largest and most comprehensive 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. As the country’s preeminent field research institute and an international leader in new discoveries, the ROM plays a vital role in advancing our understanding of the artistic, cultural and natural world. 

Throughout our 106-year history, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) has embraced education as its most transformative means to shape our future. While the ROM’s extraordinary learning environment has always had the distinct advantage of the real thing, students in today’s information age are increasingly discovering new ways to interact with their interests online and through other digital media. This includes such initiatives adding art, culture, and nature context and content to games produced at ROM Game Jams from 2013-2016, and presenting them to students as learning tools in and of themselves, and as inspiration for their own educational games.