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Visitors experiencing the digital interactive exhibition Antopia at Melbourne Museum.
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Antopia

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Piinpi

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 Opens

LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition
Aerial view of the dome of the Royal Exhibition Building
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Royal Exhibition Building Dome Promenade

two children playing in the Children's Gallery at Melbourne Museum.
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Summer School Holidays

Special event

Lunar New Year 2025

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

Dragons and costumed performers in the Melbourne Museum.
Show

Dragon Dance

18+ event

Nocturnal | Museum After Dark

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Melbourne Icons Tour

Exhibition

Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs

Exhibition entry with visitors looking at language map
Exhibition Bunjilaka

First Peoples

18+ event

February Nocturnal: Museum After Dark

Three children lie on sleeping bags and blankets on the floor of the museum beneath the massive skeleton of a dinosaur.
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Museum Sleepovers

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

Melbourne Museum Guided Highlights Tour

A snake from Live Exhibits
Show

Museum Snakes

Three worker ants in costume outside in the Carlton Gardens.
AUSLAN interpreted Show to

Ants by Polyglot Theatre

A story being read to children.
Activity

Lunar Storytime

18+ event

March Nocturnal: Museum After Dark

Children carrying Tiny Tours bags.
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Tiny Tours

A snake in a jar from the wet collection at Melbourne Museum
Tour

Serpent Treasures

garden
Exhibition Bunjilaka

Milarri Garden Trail

A child wearing an ant antennae headband in the main foyer at the Melbourne Museum.
Activity to

Antennae Antics

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

Pauline Gandel Children's Gallery
Two children have coloured in and cut out paper road signs that they’ve added to wooden sticks and placing on a vinyl road map.
Activity to

Give Way to Road Sign Safety

Activity to

Creative Lab: Antopia

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

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Tiny Tours: Ant to Apple

Two children looking at gold display in Melbourne Story.
Activity to

Zodiac Quest Competition.

A woman doing pilates in front of Antopia exhibition at Melbourne Museum
Activity to

Member exclusive: Pilates in Antopia

Detail of zinc etching
Display Bunjilaka

Wurreka

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

A woman using an iPad and drawing the details of a shell
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Digital Art Class

Show

T.REX 3D

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

Rainbow Threads

A boy looking into the jaws of a dinosaur figure
Exhibition

Gandel Gondwana Garden

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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

Horse Phar Lap on display in the Melbourne Story gallery
Exhibition

Phar Lap

AUSLAN interpreted Tour to

Auslan Museum Tour

Woman with a tattoo on her chin. The background is a green woven plant fibre with digital flowers
Exhibition

Tok stori Vikitolia Pasifiki and Te Vainui O Pasifika

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

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

Advertising posters
Show

IMAX Melbourne

Girls looking into case
Exhibition

The Melbourne Story

Trees and mist
Exhibition

Forest Gallery

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

Bugs Alive!

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

Dinosaur Walk

Crinoid fossils and models
Exhibition

600 Million Years

A child looking at Earth globe display
Exhibition

Dynamic Earth

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