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Victoria the T. rex
People wander through the Melbourne Museum foyer during Naidoc week.
Special event Bunjilaka

NAIDOC Week Family Day
18+ event

Nocturnal | Museum After Dark
Young adults sitting in a group having a discussion. The lighting is green.
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Climate Cafe Series at Melbourne Museum
A Museums Victoria expert discusses First People artefacts outside Bunjilaka exhibition.
18+ event

Nocturnal: Fired Up
child looking up at a dinosaur skeleton.
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Winter School Holidays
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T.REX 3D
A child excitedly finds a tiny brontosaurus.
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100 Tiny Dinos
Aerial view of the dome of the Royal Exhibition Building
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Royal Exhibition Building Dome Promenade
Exhibition Bunjilaka Until

Piinpi
Two children pose as fearsome tyrannosaurus wearing T.rex masks.
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T. rex Masks
Exhibition

Biik Milboo Dhumba | Country Is Always Talking
A close up of small purple capped mushrooms growing from moss on a branch
AUSLAN interpreted Talk

Fungi Futures
Children participating in Road to Zero scavenger hunt.
Activity to

Road to Zero Scavenger Hunt
Three children lie on sleeping bags and blankets on the floor of the museum beneath the massive skeleton of a dinosaur.
Special event to

Museum Sleepovers
18+ event

Nocturnal: Slim to None
A bird with vibrant purple and turquoise feathers
Talk

Bird's Eye View: Perspectives on the Art and Science of Ornithology
Exhibition entry with visitors looking at language map
Exhibition Bunjilaka

First Peoples
Special event

Rare Bird Books: A Viewing
A family walking hand in hand through an exhibition at Melbourne Museum
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Low Sensory Sessions
A view from behind of a man holding a child looking at T.rex skull in a showcase.
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Victoria the T. rex Opening Weekend Dinosaur Party
Close-up of a jumpsuit with numerous pockets that hold pens and paintbrushes.
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Top Designs 2024
Exhibition

Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs
A family group explore the display in the Melbourne Gallery at the Melbourne Museum. A boy points to the Australian Coat of Arms that features a taxidermied kangaroo and emu.
Tour

Melbourne Museum Guided Highlights Tour
A child and guardian point up at Phar Lap at Melbourne Museum
Tour Until

Melbourne Icons Tour
garden
Exhibition Bunjilaka

Milarri Garden Trail
A woman using an iPad and drawing the details of a shell
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Digital Art Class
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
A plume of vape smoke labelled with its contents including: Arsenic, found in rat poison; Formaldehyde, found in preservation morgues; Acetonitrile, found in car exhaust fumes; Benzene, found in gasoline; Xylene, found in paint stripper; Chlorine, found in bleach; Cadmium, found in batteries; Acrolein, found in week killer; Toluene, found in aviation fuel; Glyoxal, found in hospital-grade disinfectant.
Display to

What’s Hiding in a Vape?
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Arctic 3D: Our Frozen Planet – IMAX
Display

Threads
Exhibition

Rainbow Threads
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Dino Days
Detail of zinc etching
Display Bunjilaka

Wurreka
A boy looking into the jaws of a dinosaur figure
Exhibition

Gandel Gondwana Garden
Children and carers in Dinosaur Walk exhibition with a museum staff member
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Tiny Tours
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Deep Sky: Webb Telescope
A group of people view a Triceratops skeleton
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Home of Dinosaurs Tour
illustrative floor plan of Melbourne Museum not to scale
Activity

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

Children’s Gallery
The Carnivore and Herbivore Burger
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Dino Bites
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
Man doing a presentation in Auslan to a small group of people in front of a showcase displaying Aboriginal sheilds
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
Doll's House - F.A. Clemons, 'Pendle Hall', 1940s.
Exhibition

Mini Mega Model Museum
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
Woman giving a presentation
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Museums Victoria Lectures

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