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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

LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition
First Peoples banners hang in the Main Foyer area of Melbourne Museum.
Special event Bunjilaka

NAIDOC Week Family Day

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

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: Space Odyssey

18+ event Until

Nocturnal | Museum After Dark

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

Museum Sleepovers

Looking down on the Earth from space with green glowing lights of the aurora.
Talk

Indigenous Space Futures

Aerial view of the dome of the Royal Exhibition Building
Tour Until

Royal Exhibition Building Dome Promenade

Workshop

LEGO® Star Wars Brickman Masterclasses
Festival to

Playbound! 2025

child looking up at a dinosaur skeleton.
Special event to

Winter School Holidays

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.
Exhibition Until

Top Designs 2025

A herd of desert elephants walking towards the camera
Show to

Elephants 3D

A woman holding a microphone asks a question from the audience of the Melbourne Museum Theatre.
Talk

Women in Natural History: Art, Science and Rare Books

Exhibition entry with visitors looking at language map
Exhibition Bunjilaka

First Peoples

Children being read to during a Dino Day at Melbourne Museum.
Special event Until

Dino Days

A museum librarian showing a rare book in the Library's Reading Room at Melbourne Museum
Display

Rare Book Viewing: Women in Natural History

Tour Until

Melbourne History Tour

Ryan ‘Brickman’ McNaught in the Millenium Falcon cockpit in LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition at Melbourne Museum.
Talk

The Making of LEGO® Star Wars
A blue whale and it’s calf in the ocean.
Show Until

Blue Whales 3D

A child colouring in an insect to be added to a diorama.
Activity to

Creative Lab: Bug Out

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

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: Next Gen

A museum staff member helps a young boy who is trying on a bike helmet.
Activity to

Helmet Heroes

Exhibition

Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs

A front view of a paper coral reef diorama showcasing various underwater animals.
Activity to

Little Landscapes

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

Melbourne Museum Guided Highlights Tour

garden
Exhibition Bunjilaka

Milarri Garden Trail

Woman holds blue milk in a smokey room with two stormtroopers in the background.
Special event

Star Wars Galactic Cafe

Young adults sitting in a group having a discussion. The lighting is green.
Special event Until

Climate Cafe

Children carrying Tiny Tours bags.
Tour Until

Tiny Tours

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

Pauline Gandel Children's Gallery
People sit surrounded by a projected rainforest in the Learning Lab during a Digital Art Class at Melbourne Museum.
Activity

Digital Art Class

A woman with red hair and glasses lying on a camping mat under the Tarbosaurus skeleton in Dinosaur Walk
Special event to

Adult Museum Sleepovers

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

Dinosaur Walk

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

Family Museum Sleepovers (Ages 6 to 12)

A child lies on sleeping bags and blankets on the floor of the museum beneath the massive skeleton of a dinosaur.
Special event to

Family Museum Sleepovers (Ages 10 to 16)

A green and grey textured rock
Activity

Digital Art Class: Rocks

Exhibition

Biik Milboo Dhumba | Country Is Always Talking

Detail of zinc etching
Display Bunjilaka

Wurreka

Old microscope made in 1910.
Activity

Digital Art Class: Instruments of Discovery

A child looks at butterflies in the Bugs Alive Exhibition at Melbourne Museum
Tour Until

Tiny Tours: Ant to Apple

A family walking hand in hand through an exhibition at Melbourne Museum
Special event Until

Low Sensory Sessions

Children walking past the Pygmy Whale skeleton in the foyer of Melbourne Museum.
Tour Until

Tiny Tours: Whale to Tail

Show

T.REX 3D

A child looking at Earth globe display
Exhibition

Dynamic Earth

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

Exhibition Until

Rainbow Threads

A boy looking into the jaws of a dinosaur figure
Exhibition

Gandel Gondwana Garden

Tour Until

Home of Dinosaurs Tour

illustrative floor plan of Melbourne Museum not to scale
Activity

Museum Trail

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

Eel feeding

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

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: Decoded

Horse Phar Lap on display in the Melbourne Story gallery
Exhibition

Phar Lap

AUSLAN interpreted Tour to

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 | Force of Nature

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: Myths & Legends

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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