Children's Week

Melbourne Museum celebrates Children’s Week with a jam-packed program created especially for little learners!

Visit our exhibitions and galleries and take part many fun activities onsite for early years children and families.

Children and carers in Dinosaur Walk exhibition with a museum staff member

Tour Melbourne Museum Until 28 February 2025

Tiny Tours OLD

Young visitors visit the museum like real grown-ups with their very own guide showing them around the most curious and amazing specimens and objects in our galleries.

Connect through digital content

Explore the Museums Victoria collection through songs, stories, activities and games that are meaningful to young people

Make and Take

Make sticky slime and geckos climb plus more with these creative step-by-step activities!

Look and Listen

Dig deeper and continue your learning with entomologists, palaeontologists and other museum experts.

Sing and Dance

Warm up your vocal chords and put on those dancing shoes- it’s time to move your body!

Fun and Games

A playful introduction to the museum and its collection for 0-7 year-olds.

A girl posing amongst illustrations of spaceships and stars.

Join Museum Members to see more, first

As a Museum Member, you'll enjoy free general entry to Melbourne Museum, Scienceworks and the Immigration Museum, discounts on special exhibitions, parking, shops and cafes, exclusive events, tours and viewings!

Plus, members enjoy free museum entry to see Horridus the Triceratops all year-round.

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Nurturing curious minds with Museums Victoria Store

Keep little hands busy at home with museum puzzles, toys and activities.

Build a solar system, excavate for dinosaurs, learn about the human body, or discover the secrets of the natural world in your own backyard. And for the big kids, we’ve got everything from mineralogy puzzles to conversation menus to keep brains busy.

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Museums Victoria acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land where we work and play; the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin nations.

We pay respects to their Ancestors and Elders both past, present and future.

First Peoples of Australia have a deep connection to their lands and water ways.

The Traditional Owners of this land have maintained their deep knowledge through traditions practiced for thousands of generations.

They are the first and ongoing teachers, scientists, artists and storytellers of this land.