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Exhibition Until 20 October

Victoria the T. rex

Exhibition Bunjilaka Until 17 November

Piinpi

18+ event Thursday 8 August

Nocturnal | Museum After Dark

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

Special event Until 19 September

Climate Cafe Series at Melbourne Museum

18+ event Thursday 8 August

Nocturnal: Slim to None

Show Until 20 December

T.REX 3D

Fossilised skeleton of T. rex with blue and green neon staging.

Talk Wednesday 14 August

The Rise and Fall of T. rex and Triceratops

Activity 10 to 18 August

Science on Show

A child excitedly finds a tiny brontosaurus.

Special event Until 6 October

100 Tiny Dinos

Exhibition entry with visitors looking at language map

Exhibition Bunjilaka Daily

First Peoples

Aerial view of the dome of the Royal Exhibition Building

Tour Until 30 September

Royal Exhibition Building Dome Promenade

Exhibition Daily

Biik Milboo Dhumba | Country Is Always Talking

Special event Until 20 October

Dino Days

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

Special event Until 2 November

Low Sensory Sessions

Exhibition Daily

Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs

A family group explore the display in the Melbourne Gallery at the Melbourne Museum. A boy points to the Australian Coat of Arms that features a taxidermied kangaroo and emu.

Melbourne Museum Guided Highlights Tour

garden

Exhibition Bunjilaka Daily

Milarri Garden Trail

A child and guardian point up at Phar Lap at Melbourne Museum

Tour Until 1 December

Melbourne Icons Tour

A woman using an iPad and drawing the details of a shell

Activity Until 19 November

Digital Art Class

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

A plume of vape smoke labelled with its contents including: Arsenic, found in rat poison; Formaldehyde, found in preservation morgues; Acetonitrile, found in car exhaust fumes; Benzene, found in gasoline; Xylene, found in paint stripper; Chlorine, found in bleach; Cadmium, found in batteries; Acrolein, found in week killer; Toluene, found in aviation fuel; Glyoxal, found in hospital-grade disinfectant.

Display Until 30 August

What’s Hiding in a Vape?

Show Until 20 December

Arctic 3D: Our Frozen Planet – IMAX

Display Last days, closes Wednesday

Threads

Exhibition Daily

Rainbow Threads

Detail of zinc etching

Display Bunjilaka Daily

Wurreka

A boy looking into the jaws of a dinosaur figure

Exhibition Daily

Gandel Gondwana Garden

Children and carers in Dinosaur Walk exhibition with a museum staff member

Tour Until 27 September

Tiny Tours

Show Until 20 December

Deep Sky: Webb Telescope

A group of people view a Triceratops skeleton

Tour Until 31 May 2026

Home of Dinosaurs Tour

illustrative floor plan of Melbourne Museum not to scale

Museum Trail

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

Exhibition Daily

Children’s Gallery

The Carnivore and Herbivore Burger

Special event Until 20 October

Dino Bites

Woman talking to a crowd about the eels in the pond

Talk Bunjilaka Daily

Eel feeding

Horse Phar Lap on display in the Melbourne Story gallery

Exhibition Daily

Phar Lap

Woman with a tattoo on her chin. The background is a green woven plant fibre with digital flowers

Exhibition Daily

Tok stori Vikitolia Pasifiki and Te Vainui O Pasifika

Doll's House - F.A. Clemons, 'Pendle Hall', 1940s.

Exhibition Daily

Mini Mega Model Museum

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

Advertising posters

IMAX Melbourne

Girls looking into case

Exhibition Daily

The Melbourne Story

Trees and mist

Exhibition Daily

Forest Gallery

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

Exhibition Daily

Bugs Alive!

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

Exhibition Daily

Dinosaur Walk

Crinoid fossils and models

Exhibition Daily

600 Million Years

A child looking at Earth globe display

Exhibition Daily

Dynamic Earth

Woman giving a presentation

Talk Until 29 November

Museums Victoria Lectures

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