Pop-Up Museum

Become a palaeontologist for the day! Go back in time to explore a range of different interpretative fossils with Dinosaurs from Australia and around the world.

The program features:

• Casts of a Triceratops horn, teeth and section of a frill from the from Melbourne Museum.
• Casts of a Tarbosaurus skull and leg, a carnivore with huge teeth and smaller cousin of the T-rex!
• Koolasuchus cleelandi, an ancient car-sized amphibian and Victoria’s State Fossil Emblem
• Casts of Archaeopteryx, Gallimimus and dinosaur eggs!

Find out about the wonderful things that live on our beaches and swim in our oceans. Imagine yourself as a marine biologist and learn about shells, sharks and ancient marine animals that lived millions of years ago.

The program features:

• Some of our favourite taxidermied animals from the Museums Victoria collection, including a green sea turtle and a seagull!
• Collection objects such as a tiger shark jaw and whale vertebra
• A wide range of shells, including a giant triton shell!
• Real fossil specimens, such as a Megalodon tooth

Explore a range of different interpretative objects across a timeline from Australian dinosaurs, to megafauna, to today’s animals.

The program features:

• A life-sized Muttaburrasaurus skull and leg
• A Diprotodon skull cast, and footprints artwork
• Koolasuchus cleelandi, an ancient car-sized amphibian and Victoria’s State Fossil Emblem
• Artwork of Thylacoleo to scale, as well as a cast of a Thylacoleo skull
• Australian animal taxidermy from the Museums Victoria collection (koala, platypus, echidna, a range of birds, and more!)