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Qui-Gon Jinn the Jedi master and the Darth Maul the Sith Lord crossing lightsabers in a duel at LEGO for LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition at Melbourne Museum.
Exhibition Opens

LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition
Exhibition entry with visitors looking at language map
Exhibition Bunjilaka

First Peoples

Two girls in a tunnel in the garden at the Pauline Gandel Children's Gallery, Melbourne Museum.
Special event to

Autumn School Holidays

Aerial view of the dome of the Royal Exhibition Building
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Royal Exhibition Building Dome Promenade

A child uses coloured paints and penicils to make bugs for a diorama.
Activity to

Creative Lab: Bug Out

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

Baby triceratops hatch out of coloured easter eggs sitting ina basket on the grass. A blue t-rex wearing bunny ears carries an egg nearby.
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The Great Museum Easter Egg Hunt

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Nocturnal | Museum After Dark

A mother and daughters sleeping over at the Melbourne Museum under the dinosaurs.
Special event Opens

Museum Sleepovers

A blue whale and it’s calf in the ocean.
Show

Blue Whales 3D

A child wearing the micro bast mask they have made and coloured
Activity to

Bat Detectives

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Melbourne Icons Tour

Imperial Royal Guards made of LEGO standing to attention in LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition at Melbourne Museum.
Special event

LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition – Member Preview
The Sith Lord Darth Vader and Jedi Luke Skywalker crossing lightsabers in a duel LEGO for LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition at Melbourne Museum.
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LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition – C-3PO Package
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Melbourne International Comedy Festival

garden
Exhibition Bunjilaka

Milarri Garden Trail

Three children lie on sleeping bags and blankets on the floor of the museum beneath the massive skeleton of a dinosaur.
Special event Opens

Family Museum Sleepovers

Geodesic metal sphere with hexagonal panels in dark tones, split horizontally in two. The bottom half rests on a curved black-metal stand while the top half sits alongside.
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Top Designs 2025

Exhibition

Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs

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Member Appreciation Week

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

Light streams through the windows of the Dome Promenade of the Royal Exhibition Building to illuminate the intricate frescoes and painted walls of the building's interior.
Special event

Mother’s Day High Tea at Melbourne’s Royal Exhibition Building

Friends showing off their decorated cardboard car in front of Car Safety Posters.
Activity to

Create a Car, Be a Star!

Children carrying Tiny Tours bags.
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Tiny Tours

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

Pauline Gandel Children's Gallery
Activity

Digital Art Class

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

Dinosaur Walk

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

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

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

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: Cracked Up

Show

T.REX 3D

A child looking at Earth globe display
Exhibition

Dynamic Earth

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

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: Custom Made

The wing of a bird with green and blue feathers tagged and sitting on a table.
Activity

Digital Art Class: Feathered Features

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

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: Space Odyssey

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

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: NAIDOC Week

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

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: Force of Nature

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

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: Myths & Legends

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

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: Action-Reaction

Trees and mist
Exhibition

Forest Gallery

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

Bugs Alive!

18+ event

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: Unearthed

Crinoid fossils and models
Exhibition

600 Million Years

Exhibition

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

People dancing during a child-free evening during nocturnal, Melbourne Museum.
18+ event

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: All That Glitters

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