BASF’s National Chemistry Week celebrations return to the Royal Ontario Museum for a third year

• BASF Kids' Lab open for visiting families and young students from ROM's School Visit Program from October 18-26

• 5 classrooms from the BASF Kids’ Lab School Nomination Program will attend the National Chemistry Week celebrations at ROM

MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO, October 9, 2025 – BASF is returning to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) for the third consecutive year to celebrate National Chemistry Week, continuing its partnership with ROM and reinforcing its commitment to STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) education for youth.

Through a series of interactive BASF Kids’ Lab experiments, young Museum visitors and families will discover the power of science while engaging in hands-on activities designed to make chemistry fun, while sparking curiosity and creativity. In this year’s featured BASF Kids’ Lab experiment, “The Chromatography Butterfly,” ROM visitors will blend art and science using coffee filters, felt‑tip markers, and water to create colourful butterfly designs while learning how pigments separate through chromatography.

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