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Exhibition 28 June to 20 October

Victoria the T. rex

Exhibition entry with visitors looking at language map

Exhibition Bunjilaka Daily

First Peoples

18+ event Thursday 9 May

Nocturnal | Museum After Dark

Light streams through the windows beneath the dome of the Royal Exhibition Building ceiling, replete with frescoes and renaissance mural paintings

Special event Sunday 12 May

Mother’s Day at the Royal Exhibition Building

Five adults sitting on the floor watching an immersive projection.

18+ event Thursday 9 May

Nocturnal: Stars Align

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

18+ event Thursday 13 June

Nocturnal: By Accident or Design

Close-up of a jumpsuit with numerous pockets that hold pens and paintbrushes.

Exhibition Until 14 July

Top Designs 2024

Aerial view of the dome of the Royal Exhibition Building

Royal Exhibition Building Dome Promenade

Exhibition Daily

Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs

Show Opens 21 June

T. rex 3D

garden

Exhibition Bunjilaka Daily

Milarri Garden Trail

Exhibition Wednesday 26 June

Member Exhibition Preview: Victoria the T. rex

Jane Goodall – Reasons for Hope

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

Arctic 3D: Our Frozen Planet – IMAX

Threads

Exhibition Daily

Rainbow Threads

Exhibition Daily

Gandel Gondwana Garden

Tiny Tours

Detail of zinc etching

Display Bunjilaka Daily

Wurreka

Deep Sky: Webb Telescope

Dr Jane Goodall surrounded by a group of people outside. There trees in the background

Special event Monday 3 June

In Conversation with Dr. Jane Goodall

A group of people view a Triceratops skeleton

Tour Opens 1 June

Home of Dinosaurs Tour

Woman giving a presentation

Talk Until 29 November

Museums Victoria Lectures

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

Activity Until 19 November

Digital Art Class

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

Horse Phar Lap on display in the Melbourne Story gallery

Exhibition Daily

Phar Lap

Woman talking to a crowd about the eels in the pond

Talk Bunjilaka Daily

Eel feeding

Man doing a presentation in Auslan to a small group of people in front of a showcase displaying Aboriginal sheilds

Tour 1 to 9 July

Auslan Museum Tour

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 Secrets

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

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