Museums Victoria School Holidays

Saturday 20 December to Sunday 25 January

Museums Victoria / Museums Victoria School Holidays

This summer, spark your family’s curiosity with hands-on adventures, exciting exhibitions, and unforgettable experiences at Museums Victoria!

Melbourne Museum

Close-up of colourful origami animals—including a crane, butterfly, elephant, and leopard—perched on a geometric cardboard tree branch

Folded Forest

Activity Friday 2 January to Sunday 25 January 2026
Children and their guardian in sleeping bags beneath giant dinosaur skeletons.

Museum Sleepovers

Special event Various dates
Brickman sitting between two Imperial Royal Guards made of LEGO standing to attention in LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition at Melbourne Museum.

LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition – Millennium Falcon Package

Special event Friday 16 January & Saturday 17 January 2026
Child decorating their Our Wondrous Country drawing at Melbourne Museum.

Our Wondrous Country

Activity Opens Monday 5 January 2026
Children carrying Tiny Tours bags.

Tiny Tours: Big Adventures for Little Explorers

Tour Mondays & Tuesdays
Children being read to during a Dino Day at Melbourne Museum.

Dino Days

Special event Wednesdays 10am to 2pm
Happy child being correctly fastened into their child car seat by an adult.

Buckle up: Your Guide to Child Car Seat Safety

Activity Monday 5 January to Saturday 24 January (Excluding Sundays)
A museum exhibit featuring a life-sized Asian elephant mounted inside a green-framed glass display. The background is illuminated with vertical green stripes, creating a forest-like effect. Several visitors stand around the enclosure observing the elephant, with a blue patterned flooring beneath.

Our Wondrous Planet

Exhibition Daily
Assorted treasures discovered in the Galloway Hoard.

Treasures of the Viking Age: The Galloway Hoard

Exhibition Until 26 January 2026
Lego figures of the Sith Lord Darth Vader and Jedi Luke Skywalker crossing lightsabers in a duel in LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition at Melbourne Museum.

LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition

Exhibition Must close 26 January

Scienceworks

A child showing thier guardian how to use an iPad to control a sphero robot.

Mars Rollbots

Workshop Saturday 20 December to Tuesday 27 December

Ready to Launch Show

Show Opens Saturday 20 December

Tycho Goes to Mars

Planetarium Daily

What’s in the Sky Tonight: Journey Through the Planets

Planetarium Saturday 20 December to Monday 26 January 2026
light with movement

Starlight

Planetarium Various dates
Person holds three illuminated glow sticks in a variety of colours near their face.

The Glow Show

Show Daily
A hand holds an iPad showing an Augmented reality character in front of two large black boilers

FlushBack iPad Activity

Activity Daily
A child developing STEM skills by engineering a structure out of loose parts in Tinkertown exhibition at Scienceworks.

Tinkertown

Exhibition Daily
Child between a man and a woman using an exhibition interactive

Ground Up: Building Big Ideas, Together

Exhibition Daily
Two girls using the Cathy Freeman interactive In Sportworks

Sportsworks

Exhibition Daily
Entrance to Think Ahead

Think Ahead

Exhibition Opens Thursday 18 December

Museum of the Moon

Display Opens Thursday 18 December

Immigration Museum

Joy: See it. Share it.

Exhibition Until Saturday 7 February
Drag queen with a purple and white wig and purple outfit dancing on the stage surrounded by young people.

Night at the Museum: Midsumma Youth Party

Special event Saturday 24 January
A hand reaches for an order from an order board on the restaurant's kitchen wall.

Order Up: A City Fed by Many Cultures

Exhibition Thursday 16 October to Sunday 5 April

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