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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 20 July

Museum Sleepovers

Aerial view of the dome of the Royal Exhibition Building

Tour Until 31 August

Royal Exhibition Building Dome Promenade

Geodesic metal sphere with hexagonal panels in dark tones, split horizontally in two. The bottom half rests on a curved black-metal stand while the top half sits alongside.

Exhibition Until 20 July

Top Designs 2025

Ryan ‘Brickman’ McNaught in the Millenium Falcon cockpit in LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition at Melbourne Museum.

Talk Thursday 17 July

The Making of LEGO^® Star Wars

Festival Until 20 July

Playbound! 2025

child looking up at a dinosaur skeleton.

Special event Until 20 July

Winter School Holidays

Special event Saturday 23 August

The Future of Space

A herd of desert elephants walking towards the camera

Show Until 31 December

Elephants 3D

A woman holding a microphone asks a question from the audience of the Melbourne Museum Theatre.

Talk Saturday 26 July

Women in Natural History: Art, Science and Rare Books

Exhibition entry with visitors looking at language map

Exhibition Bunjilaka Daily

First Peoples

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

Talk 30 to 31 August

Treasures of the Viking Age Curator Pop-up Talks

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

Special event Until 31 July

Dino Days

A museum librarian showing a rare book in the Library's Reading Room at Melbourne Museum

Display Saturday 26 July

Rare Book Viewing: Women in Natural History

Tour Until 30 April 2026

Melbourne History Tour

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

Show Until 31 December

Blue Whales 3D

A child colouring in an insect to be added to a diorama.

Activity Until 20 July

Creative Lab: Bug Out

Exhibition Daily

Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs

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

Activity 13 to 20 July

Antennae Antics

A front view of a paper coral reef diorama showcasing various underwater animals.

Activity Last days, closes Sunday

Little Landscapes

A museum staff member helps a young boy who is trying on a bike helmet.

Activity Until 19 July

Helmet Heroes

garden

Exhibition Bunjilaka Daily

Milarri Garden Trail

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 30 July

Tiny Tours

Young man performing Siva Afi with fire outside Melbourne Museum.

Display Until 1 October

Culture Makers: Season Three

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

Exhibition Daily

Pauline Gandel Children's Gallery

People sit surrounded by a projected rainforest in the Learning Lab during a Digital Art Class at Melbourne Museum.

Activity Tuesday 12 August

Digital Art Class

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.

21 to 24 August

MATRIA

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

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

Exhibition Daily

Dinosaur Walk

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

Special event 18 July to 25 September

Family Museum Sleepovers (Ages 6 to 12)

Detail of zinc etching

Display Bunjilaka Daily

Wurreka

A child lies on sleeping bags and blankets on the floor of the museum beneath the massive skeleton of a dinosaur.

Special event 17 to 18 July

Family Museum Sleepovers (Ages 10 to 16)

Exhibition Daily

Biik Milboo Dhumba | Country Is Always Talking

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

Special event 22 to 23 August

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

Old microscope made in 1910.

Activity Tuesday 12 August

Digital Art Class: Instruments of Discovery

A child looks at butterflies in the Bugs Alive Exhibition 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

Children walking past the Pygmy Whale skeleton in the foyer of Melbourne Museum.

Tour Until 31 August

Tiny Tours: Whale to Tail

A child looking at Earth globe display

Exhibition Daily

Dynamic Earth

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

A boy looking into the jaws of a dinosaur figure

Exhibition Daily

Gandel Gondwana Garden

Woman talking to a crowd about the eels in the pond

Talk Bunjilaka Daily

Eel feeding

Talk Friday 29 August

Treasures of the Viking Age Curator Lecture

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

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 | Force of Nature

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

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: Action-Reaction

Trees and mist

Exhibition Daily

Forest Gallery

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

Activity Tuesday 16 September

Digital Art Class: The Art of Arthropods

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

Exhibition Daily

Bugs Alive!

18+ event Thursday 13 November

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: Myths & Legends

Crinoid fossils and models

Exhibition Daily

600 Million Years

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

18+ event Thursday 11 December

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: All That Glitters

Exhibition Daily

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

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