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title: "Royal Ontario Museum"
url: "https://canadaservicemap.ca/bodies/royal-ontario-museum"
description: "Royal Ontario Museum is a museum of world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Official website: rom.on.ca. Operator on record for 1 museum."
site: "Canada Service Map"
author: "Mahmoud Halat"
publisher: "Space & Story"
updated: "2026-10-14"
licence: "Built entirely from public data: open data and official government pages. Each record keeps the licence of its source, listed at https://canadaservicemap.ca/data."
---
# Royal Ontario Museum

Ontario · Provincial government

Compiled by Mahmoud Halat, updated 14 October 2026. Not a government website. The official page always has the final word.

## About

Royal Ontario Museum is a museum of world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was established in 1912.

Source: [Wikidata (structured data only: description, instance of, inception, parent organization, population)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q649250). Licence: CC0 1.0.

## Facts

- Jurisdiction: Ontario
- Layer: Provincial government
- Class: Culture, heritage and recreation
- Name in French: Musée royal de l'Ontario
- Wikidata: [Q649250](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q649250)

## Official website

- [rom.on.ca](https://www.rom.on.ca)

## Places on record

Operator on record for 1 place, from open data, by type. Operators are matched from the source records and may be approximate.

- Museums: 1

## Related bodies

More bodies of the same class (Culture, heritage and recreation) in Ontario.

- [Art Gallery of Ontario](https://canadaservicemap.ca/bodies/art-gallery-of-ontario)
- [Centennial Centre of Science and Technology](https://canadaservicemap.ca/bodies/centennial-centre-of-science-and-technology)
- [McMichael Canadian Art Collection](https://canadaservicemap.ca/bodies/mcmichael-canadian-art-collection)
- [Science North](https://canadaservicemap.ca/bodies/science-north)
- [St. Lawrence Parks Commission](https://canadaservicemap.ca/bodies/st-lawrence-parks-commission)

## Sources

- Description source: [Wikidata (structured data only: description, instance of, inception, parent organization, population)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q649250). Licence: CC0 1.0.
- Record from: [Statistics Canada, Public Sector Universe](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/68-516-x/68-516-x2016001-eng.htm). Licence: Statistics Canada Open Licence.

## More

- [View it in the explorer](https://canadaservicemap.ca/explore?sel=psu:2146482294), with the sources of its record.
- [Public services in Ontario](https://canadaservicemap.ca/provinces/ontario)
- [Data and sources](https://canadaservicemap.ca/data): every record keeps the licence of its source.

## Cite this page

Canada Service Map, "Royal Ontario Museum", updated 14 October 2026, https://canadaservicemap.ca/bodies/royal-ontario-museum