The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) has launched a joint program with a Toronto private school that allows students to take high school accredited courses at the museum.

Blyth Academy students work under the guidance of their teachers and alongside educational and curatorial staff at the ROM. ROM teachers lead lessons with artefacts and specimens from the museum's teaching collections. The courses, accredited at grades 9 through 12, include access to both the public galleries and the vaults in the museum, giving students exclusive, hands-on access to such holdings as the current Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit.

"These classes are more integrated and offer more access than a regular school visit," says Julian Kingston, head of education and programs at the ROM.

Blyth courses offered at the ROM include Canadian Geography, Ancient History, Introduction to Anthropology/Sociology/Psychology, World Religions, Biology, Visual Arts, Earth & Space Sciences, Aboriginal Governance, World History, Classical Civilization, and Canada History: Identity & Culture.

Learn more at www.rom.on.ca/news.