WHO WE ARE Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is Canada’s premier museum, featuring a comprehensive collection of Art, Culture and Nature.
Among the top 10 cultural institutions in North America, ROM has a world-class collection of 18 million artworks, cultural objects, and natural history specimens, featured in 40 gallery and exhibition spaces. ROM's mission is to transform lives by helping people to understand the past, make sense of the present, and come together to shape a shared future.
The museum is known globally for expanding the boundaries of knowledge and presenting it in new and innovative ways across the intersecting worlds of art, culture, and nature.
ROM is an agency of the Government of Ontario | .
Evolving for the 21st Century ROM’s vision is to become a distinctly twenty-first century museum, one that is globally recognized for expanding the boundaries of knowledge, fostering innovation in presenting that knowledge, and increasing public relevance within the intersecting worlds of art, culture, and nature.
To realize this vision, ROM has adopted a strategic direction that builds on its strengths and capabilities while evolving in step with a rapidly changing world.
The Museum is becoming an ever more outward-facing institution, focused on playing a central role in community and cultural life, while increasing artistic, cultural, and scientific impact both nationally and internationally.
ROM's extensive exhibition schedule and public programs attract approximately 190,000 students and a total average attendance of more than one million visitors annually.
As the country’s preeminent field research institution and an international leader in collections-based discoveries, ROM builds and shares global collections, creates knowledge, inspires learning, encourages gathering, and sparks exchange on topics that matter to people and communities.
Situated in the most diverse major city in the world, Toronto, within a province and country known for pluralism, openness, and global perspectives, ROM is well positioned for the future and for an even larger role on the world stage, encouraging greater engagement through inclusion and transdisciplinary thinking.
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Home to more than 10 million insect and arachnid specimens, ROM's collection is internationally recognized for its breadth, scientific value, and contribution to research in taxonomy, systematics, ecology, evolution, conservation, and biodiversity.
As Curator, you will build upon this extraordinary resource through original research, strategic collection development, exhibitions, public programming, and partnerships that connect people to the natural world.
This is a unique opportunity for an accomplished scientist with a passion for collections-based research and science communication to shape the future of one of Canada's premier natural history collections.
Working within ROM's highly collaborative Department of Natural History, you will partner across disciplines, including art, culture, and nature, to develop exhibitions, inspire learning, mentor emerging researchers, and engage diverse audiences, all while contributing to internationally recognized scholarship.
The successful candidate will bring an established or emerging research program, a collaborative mindset, and a strong commitment to sharing knowledge through research, exhibitions, education, and community engagement.
Opportunities may also exist for a university cross-appointment and eligibility to pursue external research funding, including through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
Exceptional early-career and mid-career scientists are encouraged to apply.
HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT Lead the stewardship, strategic growth, and long-term vision of ROM's internationally significant…
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