Museums Victoria School Holidays

Saturday 19 September to Sunday 4 October

Museums Victoria / Museums Victoria School Holidays

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

Melbourne Museum

A young child standing among lush green ferns looks upwards with curiosity in a forest setting.

Spring School Holidays

Special event Saturday 19 September to Sunday 4 October

ROME: Empire, Power, People

Exhibition Until Sunday 25 October
Three children lie on sleeping bags and blankets on the floor of the museum beneath the massive skeleton of a dinosaur.

Family Museum Sleepovers

Special event Friday 18, Saturday 19, Friday 25 & Saturday 26 September
A presenter dressed as a Roman Centurion talks to kids wearing their own Centurion outfits they have made themselves from cardboard. A fake fire and swords on racks are in the background of a room made to look like the interior of a Roman building.

Creative Lab: Rise of the Gladiators

Workshop Saturday 19 September to Sunday 4 October
A young girl looks off camera while kneeling in front of an Australian Spider Crab specimen.

Tiny Tours: Rainforest to Reef

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

Dino Days

Special event Wednesdays 10am to 2pm
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
A girl colours in a mosaic tile then places it on a column.

Mosaic Monuments

Activity Saturday 19 September to Sunday 4 October
d. A red panda in the humid montane mixed forest, Sichuan, China

Wild Asia 3D

IMAX Various dates
Great white shark swimming with other small fish

Shark Kingdom 3D

IMAX Various dates
King penguins and a giant seal

Penguin Island 3D

IMAX Various dates

Stop, Look, Listen, Think & Stick: Your Path to Safety

Activity Monday 21 September to Saturday 3 October

Scienceworks

Two children moving transparent coloured shapes over each other to create different colours in Colour exhibition at Scienceworks.

Spring School Holidays

Special event Saturday 19 September to Sunday 4 October
A child wearing large red glasses seeing light in an all new way at Colour exhibition, Scienceworks.

Colour: See the World in a New Light

Exhibition Until Tuesday 26 January 2027

Tycho Goes to Mars

Planetarium Daily
light with movement

Starlight

Planetarium Until Friday 18 September
Child with a lightning-touch plasma ball at the 'Glow Show' in the Lightning Theatre at Scienceworks during a Glow Show.

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
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 Opens Monday 17 August
Entrance to Think Ahead

Think Ahead

Exhibition Opens Monday 17 August

Museum of the Moon

Display Opens Monday 17 August
girl, robot and boy

Tilt

Planetarium Until Friday 18 September
Planet in space

Ticket to the Universe

Planetarium Various sessions
four men in front of a pumping engine

Pumping Station Guided Walk

Tour Thursdays & Saturdays

Immigration Museum

Football player Nazia Ali from the Afghan Women’s Team skilfully bouncing a football up and down using her head.

Home is Football: Belonging in Australian Soccer

Exhibition Until Tuesday 26 January 2027
External view of Immigration Museum from Flinders Street in early evening.

Immigration Museum Guided Highlights Tour

Tour Daily
Still from stop-motion animation ‘Threads’ created by Maria Birch-Morunga and Kate Robinson. Produced by Stephen Dixon.

Culture Makers

Display Until Sunday 31 January 2027
Visitor family in the Tribute Garden in Immigration Museum.

Tribute Garden

Display Daily
A woman looks at displays in Voices Across Time exhibition in the Immigration Museum.

Voices Across Time

Exhibition Daily
Illuminated images of early Melbourne standing on the floor of the Long Room in the Immigration Museum.

The Long Room

Exhibition Daily

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