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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 entry with visitors looking at language map

Exhibition Bunjilaka Daily

First Peoples

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 30 June

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

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

Special event Until 25 June

Dino Days

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

Blue Whales 3D

Tour Until 30 April 2026

Melbourne History Tour

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

Special event Opens 7 June

Star Wars Galactic Cafe

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

Special event 29 May to 4 December

Climate Cafe

garden

Exhibition Bunjilaka Daily

Milarri Garden Trail

Children carrying Tiny Tours bags.

Tour Until 4 July

Tiny Tours

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 20 May

Digital Art Class

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

Special event 27 to 28 June

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 17 to 20 July

Family Museum Sleepovers

A green and grey textured rock

Activity Tuesday 17 June

Digital Art Class: Rocks

An army of ants crowding around a Queen Ant.

Show Until 30 June

Bugs 3D: Micro Monsters

Exhibition Daily

Biik Milboo Dhumba | Country Is Always Talking

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

Tour Until 31 July

Tiny Tours: Ant to Apple

Light streams through the windows of the Dome Promenade of the Royal Exhibition Building to illuminate the intricate frescoes and painted walls of the building's interior.

Special event Sunday 11 May

Mother’s Day High Tea at Melbourne’s Royal Exhibition Building

Detail of zinc etching

Display Bunjilaka Daily

Wurreka

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 July

Tiny Tours: Whale to Tail

T.REX 3D

A child looking at Earth globe display

Exhibition Daily

Dynamic Earth

The wing of a bird with green and blue feathers tagged and sitting on a table.

Activity Tuesday 20 May

Digital Art Class: Feathered Features

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

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: Space Odyssey

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

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: Next Gen

Tour Until 30 April 2026

Home of Dinosaurs Tour

Woman talking to a crowd about the eels in the pond

Talk Bunjilaka Daily

Eel feeding

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

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: Decoded

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

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

Exhibition Daily

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

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

18+ event Thursday 11 December

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: All That Glitters

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