What's on
Spring school holiday program
Bringing the best of our museums to you and your family with online events and activities that you can enjoy from home these Spring school holidays.
First Peoples
Celebrating the history, culture, achievements and survival of Victoria’s Aboriginal people.
Drawing on nature: Wattle we draw?
Join us for our 45-minute online workshop to create and connect with nature through illustration.
Dinosaurs and fossils for early learners
Don't miss the ultimate online show for kids!
Families for a Thriving Future
Museums Victoria invites families to build their understanding of climate science as they work together to create a climate pledge for their family.
Exploring Extraordinary Treasures
Join our museum experts as they share their favourite objects from Treasures of the Natural World.
A Night at the Museum
A series of three unique micro-concerts in the museum galleries plus Australian Art Orchestra’s cross-cultural masterpiece Hand to Earth.
Dinosaurs of Antarctica IMAX 3D
Explore a prehistoric world now lost to ice!
Treasures of the Natural World
See the world’s biggest, rarest, oldest and most fascinating treasures direct from London’s Natural History Museum.
Let’s Create a Dinosaur
Learn how to draw, paint, sculpt and more, using different dinosaurs from the Melbourne Museum’s Dinosaur Walk Gallery as inspiration.
Museum Alive IMAX 3D
Complement your Treasures visit and see the Natural History Museum’s exhibits come to life in Museum Alive 3D.
Milarri Garden trail
Explore Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre's beautiful Indigenous garden.
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.
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).
Auslan tours
Join one of our free Auslan tours for an overview of some of the museum's displays.
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 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.