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Qui-Gon Jinn the Jedi master and the Darth Maul the Sith Lord crossing lightsabers in a duel at LEGO for LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition at Melbourne Museum.

Exhibition Opens 4 May

LEGO^® Star Wars: The Exhibition

Exhibition entry with visitors looking at language map

Exhibition Bunjilaka Daily

First Peoples

Two girls in a tunnel in the garden at the Pauline Gandel Children's Gallery, Melbourne Museum.

Special event 5 to 17 April

Autumn School Holidays

Aerial view of the dome of the Royal Exhibition Building

Tour Until 30 June

Royal Exhibition Building Dome Promenade

A child uses coloured paints and penicils to make bugs for a diorama.

Activity 5 to 17 April

Creative Lab: Bug Out

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

Special event Until 25 June

Dino Days

Baby triceratops hatch out of coloured easter eggs sitting ina basket on the grass. A blue t-rex wearing bunny ears carries an egg nearby.

Activity 19 to 20 April

The Great Museum Easter Egg Hunt

18+ event Until 11 December

Nocturnal | Museum After Dark

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

Special event Opens 11 April

Museum Sleepovers

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

Blue Whales 3D

A child wearing the micro bast mask they have made and coloured

Activity 5 to 17 April

Bat Detectives

Tour Until 30 April 2026

Melbourne Icons Tour

Imperial Royal Guards made of LEGO standing to attention in LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition at Melbourne Museum.

Special event Thursday 1 May

LEGO^® Star Wars: The Exhibition – Member Preview

The Sith Lord Darth Vader and Jedi Luke Skywalker crossing lightsabers in a duel LEGO for LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition at Melbourne Museum.

Special event 2 to 3 May

LEGO^® Star Wars: The Exhibition – C-3PO Package

Show 5 to 20 April

Melbourne International Comedy Festival

garden

Exhibition Bunjilaka Daily

Milarri Garden Trail

Three children lie on sleeping bags and blankets on the floor of the museum beneath the massive skeleton of a dinosaur.

Special event Opens 11 April

Family Museum Sleepovers

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.

Exhibition 29 March to 20 July

Top Designs 2025

Exhibition Daily

Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs

Special event Until 30 March

Member Appreciation Week

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

Tour Until 30 April 2026

Melbourne Museum Guided Highlights Tour

Light streams through the windows of the Dome Promenade of the Royal Exhibition Building to illuminate the intricate frescoes and painted walls of the building's interior.

Special event Sunday 11 May

Mother’s Day High Tea at Melbourne’s Royal Exhibition Building

Friends showing off their decorated cardboard car in front of Car Safety Posters.

Activity 7 to 19 April

Create a Car, Be a Star!

Children carrying Tiny Tours bags.

Tour Until 4 July

Tiny Tours

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

Exhibition Daily

Pauline Gandel Children's Gallery

Activity Tuesday 20 May

Digital Art Class

Protoceratops andrewsi (Cretaceous) from the Dinosaur Walk gallery at the Melbourne Museum.

Exhibition Daily

Dinosaur Walk

An army of ants crowding around a Queen Ant.

Show Until 30 June

Bugs 3D: Micro Monsters

Exhibition Daily

Biik Milboo Dhumba | Country Is Always Talking

Detail of zinc etching

Display Bunjilaka Daily

Wurreka

A child looks at butterflies in the Bugs Alive Exhibition at Melbourne Museum

Tour Until 4 July

Tiny Tours: Ant to Apple

A family walking hand in hand through an exhibition at Melbourne Museum

Special event Until 6 December

Low Sensory Sessions

Tour Until 30 June

Tiny Tours: Whale to Tail

Happy people laughing and chatting as they gaze upon the massive skeleton of a whale at Nocturnal, Melbourne Museum.

18+ event Thursday 10 April

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: Cracked Up

T.REX 3D

A child looking at Earth globe display

Exhibition Daily

Dynamic Earth

Man and woman making paper insects craft activity at a table.

18+ event Thursday 8 May

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: Custom Made

The wing of a bird with green and blue feathers tagged and sitting on a table.

Activity Tuesday 20 May

Digital Art Class: Feathered Features

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 Daily

Research Institute Gallery

Adults visiting Dynamic Earth exhibition during child-free hours at Nocturnal, Melbourne Museum.

18+ event Thursday 12 June

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: Space Odyssey

Exhibition Daily

Rainbow Threads

A boy looking into the jaws of a dinosaur figure

Exhibition Daily

Gandel Gondwana Garden

Uncle Larry giving a First Peoples talk at Nocturnal, Melbourne Museum.

18+ event Thursday 10 July

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: NAIDOC Week

Woman talking to a crowd about the eels in the pond

Talk Bunjilaka Daily

Eel feeding

Tour Until 30 April 2026

Home of Dinosaurs Tour

illustrative floor plan of Melbourne Museum not to scale

Museum Trail

A Museums Victoria expert giving a talk in the Museums Victoria Research Institute Gallery during Nocturnal, Melbourne Museum.

18+ event Thursday 14 August

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: Force of Nature

Horse Phar Lap on display in the Melbourne Story gallery

Exhibition Daily

Phar Lap

Tour Until 8 April

Auslan Museum Tour

The Listies totally serious 100% fact filled guide to the Melbourne Museum

Wall and floor projections in the Learning Lab showcase.

River Connections – Learning Lab

Adults listening to a talk about Horridus the triceratops while standing around the imposing 85% complete fossil.

18+ event Thursday 11 September

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: Myths & Legends

Two students using virtual reality googles to experience a road trip from the past to the future of travel in Victoria.

Exhibition Daily

Road to Zero Experience Space

Advertising posters

IMAX Melbourne

Girls looking into case

Exhibition Daily

The Melbourne Story

18+ event Thursday 9 October

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: Action-Reaction

Trees and mist

Exhibition Daily

Forest Gallery

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

Exhibition Daily

Bugs Alive!

18+ event Thursday 13 November

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: Unearthed

Crinoid fossils and models

Exhibition Daily

600 Million Years

Exhibition Daily

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

People dancing during a child-free evening during nocturnal, Melbourne Museum.

18+ event Thursday 11 December

Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: All That Glitters

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