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Visitors experiencing the digital interactive exhibition Antopia at Melbourne Museum.
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Antopia

Exhibition entry with visitors looking at language map
Exhibition Bunjilaka

First Peoples

The Sith Lord Darth Vader and Jedi Luke Skywalker crossing lightsabers in a duel LEGO for LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition at Melbourne Museum.
Exhibition Opens

LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition
Aerial view of the dome of the Royal Exhibition Building
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Royal Exhibition Building Dome Promenade

two children playing in the Children's Gallery at Melbourne Museum.
Special event

Summer School Holidays

Special event

Lunar New Year 2025

Children being read to during a Dino Day at Melbourne Museum.
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Dino Days

The Chinese Youth Society of Melbourne performing a dragon dance.
Show

Dragon Dance

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Nocturnal | Museum After Dark

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Melbourne Icons Tour

Exhibition

Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs

Musician QiQi and dancer Madison Lu
Show

Guzheng and Fan Dance Performance

18+ event

February Nocturnal: Museum After Dark

Activity

Creative Lab: Antopia

The Premium Guided Tour group in the Melbourne Story Gallery, at Melbourne Museum.
Tour

Melbourne Museum Guided Highlights Tour

A snake from Live Exhibits
Show

Museum Snakes

garden
Exhibition Bunjilaka

Milarri Garden Trail

Three worker ants in costume outside in the Carlton Gardens.
AUSLAN interpreted Show

Ants by Polyglot Theatre

A story being read to children.
Activity

Lunar Storytime

18+ event

March Nocturnal: Museum After Dark

Children carrying Tiny Tours bags.
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Tiny Tours

A snake in a jar from the wet collection at Melbourne Museum
Tour

Serpent Treasures

A child wearing an ant antennae headband in the main foyer at the Melbourne Museum.
Activity

Antennae Antics

Girl and her mother looking out the windows of a pretend train
Exhibition

Pauline Gandel Children's Gallery
Activity to

Digital Art Class

Tour

Dome Promenade Evening Tour

Protoceratops andrewsi (Cretaceous) from the Dinosaur Walk gallery at the Melbourne Museum.
Exhibition

Dinosaur Walk

Two children have coloured in and cut out paper road signs that they’ve added to wooden sticks and placing on a vinyl road map.
Activity

Give Way to Road Sign Safety

Australian trumpet shell on a blue background.
Activity

Digital Art Class: Sea Shells

An army of ants crowding around a Queen Ant.
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Bugs 3D: Micro Monsters

Exhibition

Biik Milboo Dhumba | Country Is Always Talking

Detail of zinc etching
Display Bunjilaka

Wurreka

3 taxidermided Australian parrots on branches
Activity

Digital Art Class: Australian Bird Life

A child looks at butterflies in the Bugs Alive Exhibition at Melbourne Museum
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Tiny Tours: Ant to Apple

Two children looking at gold display in Melbourne Story.
Activity to

Zodiac Quest Competition.

A woman doing pilates in front of Antopia exhibition at Melbourne Museum
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Member exclusive: Pilates in Antopia

A family walking hand in hand through an exhibition at Melbourne Museum
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Low Sensory Sessions

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Tiny Tours: Whale to Tail

Happy people laughing and chatting as they gaze upon the massive skeleton of a whale at Nocturnal, Melbourne Museum.
18+ event

April Nocturnal: Museum After Dark

A child looking at Earth globe display
Exhibition

Dynamic Earth

Man and woman making paper insects craft activity at a table.
18+ event

May Nocturnal: Museum After Dark

Two people look at animal and fossil displays in the Research Institute Gallery. Prominent signs read: 'Are birds ok?', 'What kind of lizards live in our landscape?' and 'Are these clues to a lost world?'.
Exhibition

Research Institute Gallery

Adults visiting Dynamic Earth exhibition during child-free hours at Nocturnal, Melbourne Museum.
18+ event

June Nocturnal: Museum After Dark

Exhibition

Rainbow Threads

A boy looking into the jaws of a dinosaur figure
Exhibition

Gandel Gondwana Garden

Uncle Larry giving a First Peoples talk at Nocturnal, Melbourne Museum.
18+ event

July Nocturnal: Museum After Dark

Woman talking to a crowd about the eels in the pond
Talk Bunjilaka

Eel feeding

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Home of Dinosaurs Tour

illustrative floor plan of Melbourne Museum not to scale
Activity

Museum Trail

A Museums Victoria expert giving a talk in the Museums Victoria Research Institute Gallery during Nocturnal, Melbourne Museum.
18+ event

August Nocturnal: Museum After Dark

Horse Phar Lap on display in the Melbourne Story gallery
Exhibition

Phar Lap

AUSLAN interpreted Tour Until

Auslan Museum Tour

Activity

The Listies totally serious 100% fact filled guide to the Melbourne Museum
Wall and floor projections in the Learning Lab showcase.
Display

River Connections – Learning Lab

Adults listening to a talk about Horridus the triceratops while standing around the imposing 85% complete fossil.
18+ event

September Nocturnal: Museum After Dark

Two students using virtual reality googles to experience a road trip from the past to the future of travel in Victoria.
Exhibition

Road to Zero Experience Space

Advertising posters
Show

IMAX Melbourne

Girls looking into case
Exhibition

The Melbourne Story

18+ event

October Nocturnal: Museum After Dark

Trees and mist
Exhibition

Forest Gallery

Visitor in front of butterfly display at the entrance to Bugs Alive exhibition
Exhibition

Bugs Alive!

18+ event

November Nocturnal: Museum After Dark

Crinoid fossils and models
Exhibition

600 Million Years

Exhibition

Tok stori Vikitolia Pasifiki and Te Vainui O Pasifika (Temporarily Closed)

A group of friends laughing and chatting at an after dark Melbourne Museum Event
18+ event

December Nocturnal: Museum After Dark

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