What's on
School Holiday Program
We’ve got some big plans for you these school holidays!
Gung | create, make, do, love
A new exhibition by Wergaia and Wemba Wemba artist Kelly Koumalatsos.
Digital art class
Be inspired by our unique and wondrous collection to create your own digital masterpiece.
Five Pound Coin
This coin is one of just three in existence and is now on display at Melbourne Museum.
Queers in Science Lecture Series
As part of the Midsummer Festival, QueersInScience is presenting a lecture series displaying the amazing work of queer scientists in Australia.
Treasures of the Natural World
See the world’s biggest, rarest, oldest and most fascinating treasures direct from London’s Natural History Museum.
Moving Objects
First Peoples artists respond to the collections of Museums Victoria in a city-wide presentation of performance and visual art.
Australia's response to the COVID-19 pandemic
As part of the Midsummer Festival, QueersInScience is presenting a lecture series displaying the amazing work of queer scientists in Australia. This lecture will focus on Australia’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fire | Future: Healing Country
How could Indigenous bush-burning methods improve our response to climate change?
First Peoples
Celebrating the history, culture, achievements and survival of Victoria’s Aboriginal people.
Ecology now
As part of the Midsummer Festival, QueersInScience is presenting a lecture series displaying the amazing work of queer scientists in Australia. This lecture focuses on the effects of environmental pollution.
IMAX: Great Barrier Reef 3D
Grab your mask and snorkel and come on an unforgettable adventure to the Great Barrier Reef!
Anzac Day Medals
A curated selection of three medals are on display at Melbourne Museum for a limited time for Anzac Day.
Children’s Gallery
A wondrous place for babies to 5-year-olds to explore, play and learn.
Tok stori Vikitolia Pasifiki and Te Vainui O Pasifika
Welcome to Te Vainui O Pasifika | the great waters of the Pacific peoples.
WORLDS Immersive – Learning Lab
An experience where art and science collide to explore the patterns and evolution of nature and our relationship to it.
Treasures of the Natural World Member Preview
Enjoy early access to this extraordinary exhibition from the Natural History Museum in London
Milarri Garden trail
Explore Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre's beautiful Indigenous garden.
Top Designs 2021
Don’t miss your chance to see the next generation of artists, designers and media makers as they take the next step in their creative careers.
Mini Mega Model Museum
Welcome to the Mini Mega Model Museum, where the apples are wax, the Colosseum is small and the models really work!
The Listies totally serious 100% fact filled guide to the Melbourne Museum
Join Rich (the smart one) and Matt (the other one) as they venture forth to discover the secrets of the Learnadome (what Matt calls the Museum).
Expression Australia Family Day
Storytelling, dinosaurs and fossils, mini-tours, Deaf choir, Auslan classes, new software revolutionising access to Auslan and more.
River Connections – Learning Lab
Award winning River Connections is an immersive projection experience in Melbourne Museum's Learning Lab.
Museum Lectures
Come on a journey of discovery with a program of Zoom-hosted talks.
Road to Zero experience
The world’s first immersive experience that explores a future free from deaths and serious injuries on our roads.
Wurreka
An etched zinc wall that spans the north wall of Birrarung Gallery and surrounds the entry to First Peoples.
IMAX Melbourne
The most immersive cinematic experience in the world.
The Melbourne Story
An exhibition packed with icons of the city's past and present.
Forest Secrets
Walk through a stand of Victoria's mountain forests in the middle of the city.
Bugs Alive!
The amazing world of insects and spiders!
Dinosaur Walk
Walk among skeletons of prehistoric animals.
600 Million Years
The origin and evolution of life in Victoria.
The Mind
Think about the workings of your own mind and the minds of others.
Phar Lap
Australia's greatest racehorse.
Dynamic Earth
A brilliant, immersive exhibition about our ever-changing Earth.
Marine Life
Dramatic underwater footage, vivid photographs and rare specimens bring Victoria’s marine animals to life.
Co-creative teens
Art and Science collide in this digital drawing class for teens.