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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 Daily

LEGO^® Star Wars: The Exhibition

Exhibition Bunjilaka Daily

Stronger Families, Stronger Communities

Exhibition 29 August to 26 January 2026

Treasures of the Viking Age: The Galloway Hoard

18+ event Until 11 December

Nocturnal | Museum After Dark

A mother and daughters sleeping over at the Melbourne Museum under the dinosaurs.

Special event Until 25 September

Museum Sleepovers

Aerial view of the dome of the Royal Exhibition Building

Tour Until 31 August

Royal Exhibition Building Dome Promenade

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

18+ event Thursday 14 August

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: Decoded

Special event 16 to 17 August

Science On Show

Special event Saturday 16 August

Science On Show: Saturday

Oskar Lindenmayer

Special event 16 to 17 August

Science On Show: Sunday

Bats flying in stormy skies and a full moon above Melbourne Museum.

Special event Friday 31 October

Halloween at the Museum

Katherine Bennel Pegg portrait show in Australian space suit besides Tanya Hill portrait shot in front of the planetariums screen displaying the cosmos.

Special event Saturday 23 August

The Future of Space

Exhibition entry with visitors looking at language map

Exhibition Bunjilaka Daily

First Peoples

A herd of desert elephants walking towards the camera

Show Until 31 December

Elephants 3D

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

18+ event Thursday 18 September

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: Force of Nature

Talk Friday 29 August

Treasures of the Viking Age Curator Lecture

Talk 30 to 31 August

Treasures of the Viking Age Curator Pop-up Talks

18+ event Thursday 9 October

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: Action-Reaction

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

Special event Until 31 December

Dino Days

Tour Until 30 April 2026

Melbourne History Tour

A woman with red hair and glasses lying on a camping mat under the Tarbosaurus skeleton in Dinosaur Walk

Special event 5 to 7 September

Adult Museum Sleepovers

A dark figure walks through MATRIA, a monumental new installation by Barcelona-based collective Penique Productions, transforming the Royal Exhibition Building into an immersive, pink-hued sanctuary.

Special event 21 to 24 August

MATRIA

A blue whale and it’s calf in the ocean.

Show Until 31 December

Blue Whales 3D

garden

Exhibition Bunjilaka Daily

Milarri Garden Trail

Illustration of a girl and a dog, looking up into the night sky. The night sky is full of stars. The girl is holding a meteorite.

Activity Monday 11 August

National Science Week Storytime

Young man performing Siva Afi with fire outside Melbourne Museum.

Display Until 1 October

Culture Makers: Season Three

Brickman sitting between two Imperial Royal Guards made of LEGO standing to attention in LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition at Melbourne Museum.

Special event Saturday 23 August

LEGO^® Star Wars: The Exhibition – Millennium Falcon Package

Three children lie on sleeping bags and blankets on the floor of the museum beneath the massive skeleton of a dinosaur.

Special event 23 to 25 September

Family Museum Sleepovers (Ages 6 to 12)

Exhibition Daily

Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs

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

Tour Until 30 April 2026

Melbourne Museum Guided Highlights Tour

Woman holds blue milk in a smokey room with two stormtroopers in the background.

Special event Daily

Star Wars Galactic Cafe

Young adults sitting in a group having a discussion. The lighting is green.

Special event Until 4 December

Climate Cafe

Children carrying Tiny Tours bags.

Tour Until 31 August

Tiny Tours

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

Exhibition Daily

Pauline Gandel Children's Gallery

Detail of zinc etching

Display Bunjilaka Daily

Wurreka

Four people using iPads to sketch an assortment of sea shells in the Learning Lab at Melbourne Museum during a Digital Art Class.

Activity 12 August to 16 September

Digital Art Class

Display Until 20 September

Afi: Rise Through Flame

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

Exhibition Daily

Dinosaur Walk

Exhibition Daily

Biik Milboo Dhumba | Country Is Always Talking

Old microscope made in 1910.

Activity Tuesday 12 August

Digital Art Class: Instruments of Discovery

Children rolling an exercise ball down the ramp of Gandel Gondwana Garden during a Tiny Tour at Melbourne Museum.

Tour Until 31 August

Tiny Tours: Ant to Apple

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

Special event Until 6 December

Low Sensory Sessions

A Programs Officer shows children displays in the 600 Million Years exhibition.

Tour Until 31 August

Tiny Tours: Whale to Tail

Show 5 to 10 August

Deep Sky: Webb Telescope

A child looking at Earth globe display

Exhibition Daily

Dynamic Earth

Woman talking to a crowd about the eels in the pond

Talk Bunjilaka Daily

Eel feeding

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

Show Until 31 December

T.REX 3D

Butterflies pinned to a board behind a display case set upon a table.

Activity Tuesday 16 September

Digital Art Class: The Art of Arthropods

A boy looking into the jaws of a dinosaur figure

Exhibition Daily

Gandel Gondwana Garden

18+ event Thursday 13 November

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: Myths & Legends

Tour Until 30 April 2026

Home of Dinosaurs Tour

illustrative floor plan of Melbourne Museum not to scale

Museum Trail

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

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

People dancing during a child-free evening during nocturnal, Melbourne Museum.

18+ event Thursday 11 December

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: All That Glitters

Trees and mist

Exhibition Daily

Forest Gallery

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

Exhibition Daily

Bugs Alive!

Crinoid fossils and models

Exhibition Daily

600 Million Years

Exhibition Daily

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

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