Royal Ontario Museum CEO Josh Basseches to depart at end of 2025, no successor named

Josh Basseches, shown here in 2019, is stepping down as CEO of the Royal Ontario Museum at the end of this year.

The Royal Ontario Museum’s chief executive officer Josh Basseches will leave his post later this year after nearly a decade.

Canada’s most-visited museum is in the midst of a $130-million transformation billed as OpenROM. Launched under Basseches’s watch, it’s intended to reimagine much of the ROM’s main floor, redesign its Bloor Street West entrance and add 6,000 square feet of new gallery space.

Basseches announced his departure from the culture, natural-history and art museum Thursday morning. He will remain in the role until the end of 2025. The museum did not announce a successor, but

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