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Halloween at the Museum: Early Entry for Families

Friday 31 October

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Overview Program Accessibility

Hoping to have a scare free start to the Halloween experience or looking for something for 0 – 6 year olds or those that don’t want to be too scared?

Couldn't make it last year? Unsure what a Halloween at the Museum is like? It's our goal to surpass your wildest imaginings by transforming the museum into a Halloween wonderland.

Enjoy a scare free start to Halloween at the Museum from 5:30pm to 7:00pm just for families. Then stay on for the main event, if you would like to, from 7pm.

Tickets are limited for this experience but allow access into the full Halloween in the Museum event from 7pm.

For a small taste of all we have planned, watch this compilation of last year's event and check out the first release of our Halloween program.

Optional add on

Please note: You can add LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition access (8pm to midnight) to your ticket during the add-on stage of your transaction.

Tickets

Adult $39

Child $24.90

Child U3 $10

Concession Benefit $36

Member Adult $33

Member Child U3 $8

Member Child $19

Member Concession $30

Date & Time

Friday 31 October

Family early access: 5:30 to 7pm

All-ages access: 7pm to midnight

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PROGRAM

Family early access: 5:30 to 7pm

With a special entry just for kids in the jungle tunnel, the Family Early Entry is a limited ticket experience that includes:

Kids Trick or Treat in the Bubble Garden
Wrapped Candies Goodie Bag
Skeleton Collector Cards
Spooky Science Show with Scienceworks
Kids Monster Halloween Disco
Snake Pit
Frog Fog Garden
Frog Skeleton Scavenger Hunt
Facepainting
Entry into Halloween at the Museum event (7pm to midnight)

Halloween at the Museum: 7pm to Midnight

Kids Monster Halloween Disco 

7 to 11pm | Children’s Gallery Big Box

Dance like a monster under the mirror ball in the Kids Halloween Disco, with spooky songs all night to shake your claws and tails too. 

Campfire Stories

7 to 11pm | Dynamic Earth Gallery

People enjoying a scary campfire story during Halloween at the Museum.

We asked google how to make a campfire indoors. It gave us 40 million matches.

Gather ‘round the campfire for spooky science stories of the supernatural world as we spin enchanting tales of creatures that are stranger than fiction and things that go bump in the night.

New stories start every 15 minutes.

Spooky Science

7 to 10:30pm | Children’s Gallery Garden

Mad science meets frightening physics at our Scienceworks side stage with tricks and treats aplenty from flowing slime to fountains of fog and hair-raising surprises galore.

Frog Fog Garden

7pm to Midnight | Children’s Gallery Garden

Boink Boink, Ribbet Ribbet, creep through the fog and see if you can find the hidden frog skeletons in the Frog Fog Garden!  

Face Painting

8 to 10pm | Galleria

A little girl smiles with enjoyment as she is shown the painted scorpion on her face during Halloween at the Museum.

Join in the Halloween face painting experience with our amazing Halloween witches.

Snake Pit

7 to 11pm | Children’s Gallery

Beware Snakes!! Wrestle with the fluffy snakes in the snake pit. Will you survive the cuddle attack by our silly serpents? 

Adult Only Zone

8pm to midnight | Treetops | Adults Only

A woman wearing a witch costume holding a cocktail with candy teeth impaled on straws.

Sink your teeth into our amazing cocktails!

This is an adults only zone where you can grab a drink at the tavern, watch the kraken, dig into a handful of gold coins, try a slime shot, be horrified by terrifying science, sit in the mist and watch a horror movie marathon, or have your tarot read! More details coming soon.

Horror Science for Grown Ups

8 to 11pm | Treetops | Adults Only

A supernatural science show during Halloween at the Museum.

Horror Science and frightening physics at our Scienceworks adults only science show goosebumps, screams and adult only silly jokes!

Haunted Cinema

7pm to Midnight | Melbourne Story

People dressed in Halloween costumes outside the Melbourne story cinema during Halloween at the Museum.

Step into a haunted 1920’s cinema for a spooky sampling of curated clips and trailers presented by The Melbourne Horror Film Society. From 6:30 to 8:30pm, enjoy family-friendly horror clips from around the world. As night falls, dive into a darker side with back-to-back horror trailers from B grade gorefests to cult classics. 

The Ghost Story Stage

7pm to Midnight | Melbourne Story

A museum tour guide dressed as a bloody butcher talks to audiences about horrible histories during Halloween at the Museum.

The Ghost story stage is running all night with horrible history mysteries, ghostly and gory tales from paranormal Melbourne, terrifying collection objects and even a little Viking mythology!  

Tales as old as time in the haunted halls of Melbourne Museum on a paranormal stage, join us for adventures through space and time. The Ghost Story stage will have new stories every 15 mins all night! Meet you ghostly host for stories with the most!

Shadows of Little Lon
Creepy Collecting
The Black Cat Nine Lives
The Stagecoach Murders
The Trouble at the Asylum
The Ghost in the Theatre
The Tavern Travesty
The Ghoul in the Goal
Spooky Spiritualism
The Wild Hunt - Nordic Ghost Tale
The Zombie Vikings – Nordic Ghost Tale
The Vikings Lonely Ghost – Nordic Ghost Tale