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Exhibition Bunjilaka

First Peoples

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Nocturnal | Museum After Dark

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

Aerial view of the dome of the Royal Exhibition Building
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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.
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Top Designs 2025

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

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

Blue Whales 3D

garden
Exhibition Bunjilaka

Milarri Garden Trail

Exhibition

Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs

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

Children carrying Tiny Tours bags.
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Tiny Tours

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

Pauline Gandel Children's Gallery
Protoceratops andrewsi (Cretaceous) from the Dinosaur Walk gallery at the Melbourne Museum.
Exhibition

Dinosaur Walk

An army of ants crowding around a Queen Ant.
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Bugs 3D: Micro Monsters

Exhibition

Biik Milboo Dhumba | Country Is Always Talking

A child looks at butterflies in the Bugs Alive Exhibition at Melbourne Museum
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Tiny Tours: Ant to Apple

Children walking past the Pygmy Whale skeleton in the foyer of Melbourne Museum.
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Tiny Tours: Whale to Tail

Detail of zinc etching
Display Bunjilaka

Wurreka

Show

T.REX 3D

A child looking at Earth globe display
Exhibition

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

Research Institute Gallery

Exhibition

Rainbow Threads

A boy looking into the jaws of a dinosaur figure
Exhibition

Gandel Gondwana Garden

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Home of Dinosaurs Tour

illustrative floor plan of Melbourne Museum not to scale
Activity

Museum Trail

Woman talking to a crowd about the eels in the pond
Talk Bunjilaka

Eel feeding

Horse Phar Lap on display in the Melbourne Story gallery
Exhibition

Phar Lap

Activity

The Listies totally serious 100% fact filled guide to the Melbourne Museum
Wall and floor projections in the Learning Lab showcase.
Display

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

Road to Zero Experience Space

Advertising posters
Show

IMAX Melbourne

Girls looking into case
Exhibition

The Melbourne Story

Trees and mist
Exhibition

Forest Gallery

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

Bugs Alive!

Crinoid fossils and models
Exhibition

600 Million Years

Exhibition

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

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