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Visitors experiencing the digital interactive exhibition Antopia at Melbourne Museum.

Exhibition Until 10 March

Antopia

Exhibition entry with visitors looking at language map

Exhibition Bunjilaka Daily

First Peoples

The Sith Lord Darth Vader and Jedi Luke Skywalker crossing lightsabers in a duel LEGO for LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition at Melbourne Museum.

Exhibition Opens 4 May

LEGO^® Star Wars: The Exhibition

Aerial view of the dome of the Royal Exhibition Building

Tour Until 30 April

Royal Exhibition Building Dome Promenade

two children playing in the Children's Gallery at Melbourne Museum.

Special event Last days, closes Monday

Summer School Holidays

Special event Saturday 1 February

Lunar New Year 2025

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

Special event Until 25 June

Dino Days

The Chinese Youth Society of Melbourne performing a dragon dance.

Show Saturday 1 February

Dragon Dance

18+ event 13 February to 11 December

Nocturnal | Museum After Dark

Tour Until 31 May

Melbourne Icons Tour

Exhibition Daily

Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs

Musician QiQi and dancer Madison Lu

Show Saturday 1 February

Guzheng and Fan Dance Performance

18+ event Thursday 13 February

February Nocturnal: Museum After Dark

Activity Last days, closes Saturday

Creative Lab: Antopia

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

Melbourne Museum Guided Highlights Tour

A snake from Live Exhibits

Show Saturday 1 February

Museum Snakes

garden

Exhibition Bunjilaka Daily

Milarri Garden Trail

A story being read to children.

Activity Saturday 1 February

Lunar Storytime

18+ event Thursday 6 March

March Nocturnal: Museum After Dark

Children carrying Tiny Tours bags.

Tour Until 7 March

Tiny Tours

A snake in a jar from the wet collection at Melbourne Museum

Tour Saturday 1 February

Serpent Treasures

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

Activity Last days, closes Saturday

Antennae Antics

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

Exhibition Daily

Pauline Gandel Children's Gallery

Activity 18 February to 17 July

Digital Art Class

Tour Last days, closes Thursday

Dome Promenade Evening Tour

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

Exhibition Daily

Dinosaur Walk

Two children have coloured in and cut out paper road signs that they’ve added to wooden sticks and placing on a vinyl road map.

Activity Last days, closes Saturday

Give Way to Road Sign Safety

Australian trumpet shell on a blue background.

Activity Tuesday 18 March

Digital Art Class: Sea Shells

An army of ants crowding around a Queen Ant.

Show Until 10 March

Bugs 3D: Micro Monsters

Exhibition Daily

Biik Milboo Dhumba | Country Is Always Talking

Detail of zinc etching

Display Bunjilaka Daily

Wurreka

3 taxidermided Australian parrots on branches

Activity Tuesday 18 February

Digital Art Class: Australian Bird Life

A child looks at butterflies in the Bugs Alive Exhibition at Melbourne Museum

Tour Until 7 March

Tiny Tours: Ant to Apple

Two children looking at gold display in Melbourne Story.

Activity 28 January to 2 February

Zodiac Quest Competition.

A woman doing pilates in front of Antopia exhibition at Melbourne Museum

Activity 1 to 8 February

Member exclusive: Pilates in Antopia

A family walking hand in hand through an exhibition at Melbourne Museum

Special event Until 6 December

Low Sensory Sessions

Tour Until 30 June

Tiny Tours: Whale to Tail

Happy people laughing and chatting as they gaze upon the massive skeleton of a whale at Nocturnal, Melbourne Museum.

18+ event Thursday 10 April

April Nocturnal: Museum After Dark

A child looking at Earth globe display

Exhibition Daily

Dynamic Earth

Man and woman making paper insects craft activity at a table.

18+ event Thursday 8 May

May Nocturnal: Museum After Dark

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 Daily

Research Institute Gallery

Adults visiting Dynamic Earth exhibition during child-free hours at Nocturnal, Melbourne Museum.

18+ event Thursday 12 June

June Nocturnal: Museum After Dark

Exhibition Daily

Rainbow Threads

A boy looking into the jaws of a dinosaur figure

Exhibition Daily

Gandel Gondwana Garden

Uncle Larry giving a First Peoples talk at Nocturnal, Melbourne Museum.

18+ event Thursday 10 July

July Nocturnal: Museum After Dark

Woman talking to a crowd about the eels in the pond

Talk Bunjilaka Daily

Eel feeding

Tour Until 31 May

Home of Dinosaurs Tour

illustrative floor plan of Melbourne Museum not to scale

Museum Trail

A Museums Victoria expert giving a talk in the Museums Victoria Research Institute Gallery during Nocturnal, Melbourne Museum.

18+ event Thursday 14 August

August Nocturnal: Museum After Dark

Horse Phar Lap on display in the Melbourne Story gallery

Exhibition Daily

Phar Lap

The Listies totally serious 100% fact filled guide to the Melbourne Museum

Wall and floor projections in the Learning Lab showcase.

River Connections – Learning Lab

Adults listening to a talk about Horridus the triceratops while standing around the imposing 85% complete fossil.

18+ event Thursday 11 September

September Nocturnal: Museum After Dark

Two students using virtual reality googles to experience a road trip from the past to the future of travel in Victoria.

Exhibition Daily

Road to Zero Experience Space

Advertising posters

IMAX Melbourne

Girls looking into case

Exhibition Daily

The Melbourne Story

18+ event Thursday 9 October

October Nocturnal: Museum After Dark

Trees and mist

Exhibition Daily

Forest Gallery

Visitor in front of butterfly display at the entrance to Bugs Alive exhibition

Exhibition Daily

Bugs Alive!

18+ event Thursday 13 November

November Nocturnal: Museum After Dark

Crinoid fossils and models

Exhibition Daily

600 Million Years

Exhibition Daily

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

A group of friends laughing and chatting at an after dark Melbourne Museum Event

18+ event Thursday 11 December

December Nocturnal: Museum After Dark

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