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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.
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LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition
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Stronger Families, Stronger Communities

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Treasures of the Viking Age: The Galloway Hoard

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Nocturnal | Museum After Dark

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

Museum Sleepovers

Aerial view of the dome of the Royal Exhibition Building
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Royal Exhibition Building Dome Promenade

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

Top Designs 2025

Festival

Playbound! 2025

child looking up at a dinosaur skeleton.
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Winter School Holidays

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The Future of Space

A herd of desert elephants walking towards the camera
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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

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

Exhibition entry with visitors looking at language map
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First Peoples

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Treasures of the Viking Age Curator Pop-up Talks

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

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Melbourne History Tour

A blue whale and it’s calf in the ocean.
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Blue Whales 3D

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

Creative Lab: Bug Out

Exhibition

Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs

A child wearing an ant antennae headband in the main foyer at the Melbourne Museum.
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Antennae Antics

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

Helmet Heroes

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

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

Star Wars Galactic Cafe

garden
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Milarri Garden Trail

Young adults sitting in a group having a discussion. The lighting is green.
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Climate Cafe

Children carrying Tiny Tours bags.
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Tiny Tours

Young man performing Siva Afi with fire outside Melbourne Museum.
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Culture Makers: Season Three

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

Pauline Gandel Children's Gallery
Four people using iPads to sketch an assortment of sea shells in the Learning Lab at Melbourne Museum during a Digital Art Class.
Activity

Digital Art Class

A dark figure walks through MATRIA, a monumental new installation by Barcelona-based collective Penique Productions, transforming the Royal Exhibition Building into an immersive, pink-hued sanctuary.
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MATRIA

A woman with red hair and glasses lying on a camping mat under the Tarbosaurus skeleton in Dinosaur Walk
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Adult Museum Sleepovers

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

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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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.
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Family Museum Sleepovers (Ages 10 to 16)

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Biik Milboo Dhumba | Country Is Always Talking

Detail of zinc etching
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Wurreka

Brickman sitting between two Imperial Royal Guards made of LEGO standing to attention in LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition at Melbourne Museum.
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LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition – Millennium Falcon Package
Old microscope made in 1910.
Activity

Digital Art Class: Instruments of Discovery

Children rolling an exercise ball down the ramp of Gandel Gondwana Garden during a Tiny Tour at Melbourne Museum.
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Tiny Tours: Ant to Apple

A family walking hand in hand through an exhibition at Melbourne Museum
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Low Sensory Sessions

A Programs Officer shows children displays in the 600 Million Years exhibition.
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Tiny Tours: Whale to Tail

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

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T.REX 3D

A boy looking into the jaws of a dinosaur figure
Exhibition

Gandel Gondwana Garden

Talk

Treasures of the Viking Age Curator Lecture

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Home of Dinosaurs Tour

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

Eel feeding

illustrative floor plan of Melbourne Museum not to scale
Activity

Museum Trail

Horse Phar Lap on display in the Melbourne Story gallery
Exhibition

Phar Lap

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 | Nocturnal: 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

Butterflies pinned to a board behind a display case set upon a table.
Activity

Digital Art Class: The Art of Arthropods

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

People dancing during a child-free evening during nocturnal, Melbourne Museum.
18+ event

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: All That Glitters

Exhibition

Tok stori Vikitolia Pasifiki and Te Vainui O Pasifika (Temporarily Closed)

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Deep Sky: Webb Telescope

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