Gut Feelings
Microbes in your gut talk to your brain and body. Your microbes are beautiful. Be immersed. Be curious. Love your guts.
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Manggan – gather, gathers, gathering
Manggan weaves together recent works from the unique and diverse communities of Far North Queensland.
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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).
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Romp and Stomp
A special event for children five years and under to celebrate Children's Week at Melbourne Museum.
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Play Box
To help your littlie make the most of every single day, we’re opening early with a new play-based learning experience proudly supported by Biostime.
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Members Behind the Scenes Tour: Halloween Edition
Enter through our locked doors and walk through our empty corridors to meet museum experts as they share the weird, the wonderful and the downright creepy.
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Melbourne Music Week: An Under 5's Adventure
Why should adults have all the fun? Melbourne is one of the world's premier Music Cities but it ain’t just for grown-ups.
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First Peoples
Celebrating the history, culture, achievements and survival of Victoria’s Aboriginal people.
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Stardust memories
Heard and seen by the people of Murchison in northern Victoria, this meteorite, became one of the world's most highly studied.
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Members VIP Shopping Night
We’re inviting you, our Museum Members, to visit and peruse Melbourne Museum shop
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Sunday Family Program: Tails and Scales
Be inspired by some of Museums Victoria’s rarest native geckos to make your own in our family friendly activity.
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Melbourne Cup Day Family Activity
Celebrate this special day of horse racing with us by dressing up and making race-day accessories.
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Children's Gallery
A wondrous place for babies to 5-year-olds to explore, play and learn.
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Milarri Garden trail
Explore Bunjilaka's beautiful Indigenous garden.
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Museum Playdates
Come and play in our newest program for 3 to 5 year olds.
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Museum Lectures
Come on a journey of discovery with a program of talks.
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Hello Possums Story Time
Join your friends for Hello Possums Story Time in the Pauline Gandel Children's Gallery at Melbourne Museum.
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Road to Zero experience
The world’s first immersive experience that explores a future free from deaths and serious injuries on our roads.
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IMAX Melbourne
The most immersive cinematic experience in the world.
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Wurreka
An etched zinc wall that spans the north wall of Birrarung Gallery and surrounds the entry to First Peoples.
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Before Hours Tour
Join an early morning, small group tour of Melbourne Museum before it opens
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Wild
Over 600 birds, reptiles, mammals and amphibians from around the world.
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Dinosaur Walk
Walk among skeletons of prehistoric animals.
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The Melbourne Story
An exhibition packed with icons of the city's past and present.
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Forest Secrets
Walk through a stand of Victoria's mountain forests in the middle of the city.
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Eel feeding
Watch a writhing mass of hungry eels gobble up their lunch!
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Bugs Alive!
The amazing world of insects and spiders!
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Melbourne Museum Tours
Enrich your visit to Melbourne Museum with a small group guided tour.
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Curious?
A place for visitors to meet staff and find answers relating to the research, collections and the work of Museums Victoria.
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600 Million Years
The origin and evolution of life in Victoria.
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Darwin to DNA
The processes and mechanisms of evolution.
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Highlights tour
Introduction to the museum's displays.
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The Mind
Think about the workings of your own mind and the minds of others.
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Phar Lap
Australia's greatest racehorse.
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Royal Exhibition Building Tours
Discover the history and beauty of this magnificently restored building.
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Te Vainui O Pasifika
Welcome to Te Vainui O Pasifika the great waters of the Pacific peoples.
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Dynamic Earth
A brilliant, immersive exhibition about our ever-changing Earth.
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Marine Life
Dramatic underwater footage, vivid photographs and rare specimens bring Victoria’s marine animals to life.
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Museum Market Pop-Up Restaurant
Enjoy a glass of wine, coffee and lunch at Melbourne Museum’s Pop-Up Restaurant in May, overlooking the stunning Royal Exhibition Building.
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