Museum Sleepovers
- What
- SPECIAL EVENT
- When
- General information
- Please note: Members may bring a guest child and their guardian at member's prices.
- Tickets
Sleep among the dinosaurs for a once in a lifetime prehistoric adventure and explore the Museum after dark in this unique overnight experience at Melbourne Museum – home of the dinosaurs!
Enjoy the Minecraft Movie 3D up-close on the giant screen at IMAX with all the snacks. Experience an exclusive campfire stories experience about the creatures from the natural world in the Dynamic Earth Exhibition before taking your very own Dinosaur Walk tour and Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs torchlight tour before settling in for some sleep (if you dare) among the dinosaurs.
Wake to delicious breakfast and an early morning Baby Triceratops meet and greet before heading off to spend the day exploring the Museum.
See our Itinerary for a full list of all the excitement and goodies included in this once-in-a-lifetime experience!
Melbourne Museum provides
- Camping mattresses
- Fresh hot breakfast
- Premium IMAX entry & snack attack
- Admission to the Museum the following day
- Exclusive tours
- A unique dinosaur souvenir and special gift
- Carparking overnight
You need to bring
- Sleeping bag and pillow (single fitted sheet is optional to bring along)
- Personal toiletries, medication and a hand towel
- Warm clothes and pyjamas
- Comfortable walking shoes
- Camera, torch if you wish
- A water bottle
- A love of dinosaurs
Itinerary
Day One
6:15pm | Arrive and meet your hosts
6:20pm | IMAX Snack attack on arrival
6:30pm | MINECRAFT MOVIE 3D
Welcome to the world of Minecraft, where creativity doesn’t just help you craft, it’s essential to one’s survival! Four misfits—Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison (Momoa), Henry (Hansen), Natalie (Myers) and Dawn (Brooks)—find themselves struggling with ordinary problems when they are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into the Overworld: a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination.
To get back home, they’ll have to master this world (and protect it from evil things like Piglins and Zombies, too) while embarking on a magical quest with an unexpected, expert crafter, Steve (Black). Together, their adventure will challenge all five to be bold and to reconnect with the qualities that make each of them uniquely creative…the very skills they need to thrive back in the real world.
8:45pm to 9:45pm | Campfire Stories, Dynmaic Earth Exhibition
Journey into the Dynamic Earth Gallery past rare and beautiful minerals, giant crystals, uncut diamonds and gold nuggets, some of them even glow in the dark! Marvel at the little pieces of space that come to us, including meteorites from Mars and the Moon, and map the 177 craters and impact sites across the globe and then gather around the campfire for stories of the natural world as we spin enchanting tales of creatures that are stranger than fiction and learn something about the incredible animals that live around us.
9:45pm to 10:15pm | Triceratops Torchlight Tour
10:15pm | Dinosaur Story Time
10:30pm | Supper and Bedtime
Day Two
6:30 to 7:30am | Fresh hot breakfast
8:15am | Meet Baby Triceratops
9:00am | Check out and say goodbye to your hosts
9:00am to 5pm | Enjoy the rest of the day at Melbourne Museum
(Purchase a ticket and then fill out the participants consent form here or in your confirmation email)
FAQ
-
Sleepovers are designed for kids 6 to 12 and their accompanying parent/ carer.
Where possible, children will be grouped according to age. Please ensure a consent form is completed for each child attending so they are grouped correctly.
Siblings will be grouped together unless otherwise requested by their parents/guardians.
-
When available, you'll need to purchase a ticket online from this page. Tickets are subject to terms and conditions.
Tickets are currently available for Museum Members.
Learn more about becoming a Museum Member here: Become a member - Museums Victoria
-
Each adult can be accompanied by up to three children.
If you have two or more adults accompanying a larger group, each set of tickets must be purchased separately, but you can let us know that you wish to be in the same group by indicating this on your consent form.
Please note, children can't attend without an adult present.
-
Please note, cancellations of tickets must occur fourteen (14) days prior to the event. Please contact us at 13 11 02 if you have any queries about your tickets.
-
We'll need the child's legal guardian to fill in a consent form which will need to be sent with the booking confirmation.
The child's legal guardian must complete this before the event.
-
You and the attendees within your party will be placed in an assigned sleeping area in the Dinosaur Walk on the ground floor.
Staff will be stationed at entrances/exits to provide assistance.
-
No. We do not allow guests to bring alcohol into the Museum.
-
No alcohol or outside food is to be brought on site by visitors, but we do ask that you bring a bottle of water for the night. We will be catering for a snack and breakfast so there should be no need to bring food/drink.
-
To make everyone’s evening enjoyable, we ask that guests follow these rules:
- Running and yelling are not permitted in the Museum.
- Accompanying adults must stay with their children throughout the entire event. They are responsible for the behavior of their group.
- Guests are not permitted to play on stairways or lifts and are expected to be courteous.
- Guests may not visit areas of the Museum that are off-limits.
- Inappropriate behavior will not be tolerated.
- Alcohol is not allowed during sleepovers. Violators will be asked to leave.
- Mobile phones should be put on vibrate or silent mode.
- Respect your fellow attendees.
-
The Museum closes to the public from 5pm and re-opens for the sleepover event at 6pm. Registration will begin at 6:15pm. Before that time, you will be asked to wait outside the Museum entrance.
You can enter the Museum using the main entrance between Nicholson St and Rathdowne St.
Please bring your booking confirmation with you on the night.
During registration, you will be placed into a group where you'll meet your group leader and see where you'll be sleeping.
Attendees will remain in these groups throughout the evening.
-
Everything you need to know about getting tot the Melbourne Museum can be found in our Getting here and parking page.
-
Terms and conditions can be found here.
More information
Accessibility
Please view our accessibility page for general information. Contact our team on 13 11 02 or email us at [email protected] to discuss how we can support your visit.
