The Royal Ontario Museum’s (ROM) former Discovery Gallery is being reimagined to activate new and innovative approaches to family learning and for meaningful and memorable experiences in museums. A re-imagined play-based learning space (PBLS) will continue to offer hands-on, facilitated activities that provide accessible entry points into the museum’s vast art, cultural and natural history collections, while incorporating inno- vative approaches and learning philosophies. This report is a review of existing and past ROM activities and programs, synthesized with new and relevant research in topic areas deemed important to consider in reimagining the space.