Melbourne Museum tends to be quieter between 3pm and 5pm on weekdays during term time.
To minimise the time your family spends in a queue, we suggest that you buy tickets online before you visit. Present your printed or digital tickets at the prepurchase queue entry point for quick entry.
See here for more information on accessibility at Melbourne Museum.
Sensory Map
Download the Melbourne Museum Sensory Map to plan around high and low sensory areas of the museum.
- Melbourne Museum Sensory Map| 640.05 KB .pdf file
Melbourne Museum Visitors
Use this visual story, a step-by-step visual and written access guide, when planning a visit on how to get to the museum, and sensory experiences when visiting the exhibitions at Melbourne Museum.
- Melbourne Museum Visual Story| 2.61 MB .docx file
School Excursions
Melbourne Museum
Teachers, parents and Education Support Staff can use this visual story, a step-by-step visual and written access guide, to prepare students when coming on a school excursion to Melbourne Museum.
- Melbourne Museum Excursion Visual Story| 2.5 MB .docx file
Royal Exhibition Building
Teachers, parents and Education Support Staff can use this visual story to support students going on an excursion to the Royal Exhibition Building.
- Royal Exhibition Building Excursion Visual Story| 7.65 MB .pdf file
Road to Zero
Road to Zero is a road safety education complex, within Melbourne Museum. Teachers, parents and Education Support Staff can use this visual story to support students going on an excursion to Road to Zero.
- Road to Zero Visual Story| 13.5 MB .docx file
Outreach
Road to Zero
The Road to Zero Regional In-school Program brings road safety education programs to schools across rural and regional Victoria. Teachers, parents and Education aides can use this visual story to support students when Road to Zero team visits your school.
- Road to Zero Visual Story| 4.07 MB .docx file
Kindergartens
Museum Victoria's travelling ‘museum in a van’ program brings museum learning to 4-year-old kindergarten groups across Victoria.
These visual stories are story-based resources that educators can use with their pre-school groups prior to the Museum incursion. They are a valuable tool that can be used to prepare all pre-school children to understand the social learning environment and behavioural expectations for when the Museum comes to visit.
The resource may be used in a variety of ways to best suit your group’s needs.
- Dinosaurs And Fossils Visual Story| 2.05 MB .pdf file
- Rockets And Robots Visual Story| 3.04 MB .pdf file
- Ocean Wonders Visual Story| 2.83 MB .pdf file
- Australian Animals Visual Story| 2.53 MB .pdf file
Feedback
We'd love to hear what you think about these visual stories and whether they are helpful to you. Drop us a line on [email protected]
