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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

LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition
Exhibition Bunjilaka

Stronger Families, Stronger Communities

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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

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Playbound! 2025

child looking up at a dinosaur skeleton.
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Winter School Holidays

A herd of desert elephants walking towards the camera
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Elephants 3D

Exhibition entry with visitors looking at language map
Exhibition Bunjilaka

First Peoples

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

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Melbourne History Tour

A blue whale and it’s calf in the ocean.
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Blue Whales 3D

A child colouring in an insect to be added to a diorama.
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Creative Lab: Bug Out

Exhibition

Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs

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

Little Landscapes

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

garden
Exhibition Bunjilaka

Milarri Garden Trail

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

Woman holds blue milk in a smokey room with two stormtroopers in the background.
Special event

Star Wars Galactic Cafe

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

Children carrying Tiny Tours bags.
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Tiny Tours

Young man performing Siva Afi with fire outside Melbourne Museum.
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Culture Makers: Season Three

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

Detail of zinc etching
Display Bunjilaka

Wurreka

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

A family walking hand in hand through an exhibition at Melbourne Museum
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Low Sensory Sessions

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

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

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T.REX 3D

A boy looking into the jaws of a dinosaur figure
Exhibition

Gandel Gondwana Garden

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

Eel feeding

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Home of Dinosaurs Tour

illustrative floor plan of Melbourne Museum not to scale
Activity

Museum Trail

AUSLAN interpreted Tour Until

Auslan Museum Tour

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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