child looking up at a dinosaur skeleton.

Museums Victoria School Holidays

Saturday 5 July to Sunday 20 July

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

Melbourne Museum

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

LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition

LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition is now open for its galaxy-first debut at Melbourne Museum!
Festival

Playbound! 2025

A city-wide array of fun-filled family-friendly performances, workshops, exhibitions, crafts and activities designed to inspire and educate children aged 0 to 12.
A mother and daughters sleeping over at the Melbourne Museum under the dinosaurs.
Special event Melbourne Museum

Museum Sleepovers

Sleep among the dinosaurs for a once-in-a-lifetime prehistoric adventure!
Ryan ‘Brickman’ McNaught in the Millenium Falcon cockpit in LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition at Melbourne Museum.
Talk Melbourne Museum

The Making of LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition

How do you recreate a galaxy far, far away — one brick at a time?
A herd of desert elephants walking towards the camera
Show Melbourne Museum Until

Elephants 3D

Narrated by Naomi Watts, embark on an epic journey across Africa’s Namib Desert with an adorable elephant calf and her resilient family in a tale of survival and adaptation in immersive IMAX 3D!
Woman holds blue milk in a smokey room with two stormtroopers in the background.
Special event Melbourne Museum

Star Wars Galactic Cafe

Experience the Star Wars™ universe like never before with Australia’s first Star Wars Galactic Café at Melbourne Museum.
A child colouring in an insect to be added to a diorama.
Activity Melbourne Museum

Creative Lab: Bug Out

Discover the science behind bugs and bring them to life with hands-on design and creativity.
A blue whale and it’s calf in the ocean.
Show Melbourne Museum Until

Blue Whales 3D

Get ready to swim alongside blue whales, whale calves, dolphins and orcas in this heartwarming film that transforms our understanding of these majestic mammals, all in immersive IMAX 3D!
Children carrying Tiny Tours bags.
Tour Melbourne Museum Until

Tiny Tours

Young adventurers take on the museum like grown-ups, guided through curious and amazing specimens in our galleries, one discovery at a time.
Children being read to during a Dino Day at Melbourne Museum.
Special event Melbourne Museum Until

Dino Days

Every Wednesday is Dino Day for the little ones at Melbourne Museum!
A museum staff member helps a young boy who is trying on a bike helmet.
Activity Melbourne Museum

Helmet Heroes

Learn how to correctly choose and fit a helmet at Road to Zero and add a fun photo to our holiday hero wall.
Show Melbourne Museum Until

T.REX 3D

Experience the iconic T. rex come to life on the world's biggest best screen in this thrilling IMAX 3D documentary!

Scienceworks

Learn through play and build your very own cubby-house in Tinkertown.
Exhibition Scienceworks Until

Tinkertown

A hands-on exhibition to build your imagination! Solve challenges, send secret messages and invent wacky contraptions.
Families watching an outdoor Amphitheatre show during the school holidays at Scienceworks.
Show Scienceworks

Build 'Em Up!

Join our presenters in the amphitheatre for this 20-minute live science show all about engineering.
Young boy wearing an eyepatch flies through space with an alien
Activity Scienceworks

Disney and Pixar’s Elio

To celebrate the release of Disney and Pixar’s Elio in cinemas, Scienceworks is partnering with Disney and Pixar to bring the cosmos to life!
Person holds three illuminated glow sticks in a variety of colours near their face.
Show Scienceworks

The Glow Show

Take a seat in our Lightning Theatre and be mesmerised by all that glows.
Planetarium Scienceworks

Tycho Goes to Mars

Tycho, our favourite cheeky dog with a knack for getting into trouble, is finally blasting off to discover the red planet, Mars!
girl, robot and boy
Planetarium Scienceworks

Tilt

When the seasons go crazy Annie and Max must set things right and discover a new angle on the world.
A spacecraft flys past an icy moon.
Planetarium Scienceworks

Solar System Adventures

A presenter lead Planetarium show highlighting the search for water in our solar system.
Stars in the night sky
Planetarium Scienceworks

Capturing the Cosmos

All-sky astronomy is a new way of looking at the sky to better understand our Universe – and it's happening in Australia!
Planetarium Scienceworks

Afternoon Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s iconic album ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ in a specially designed Planetarium show combining breath-taking views of the solar system and beyond, played out to 42 minutes of this iconic album in surround sound.
A hand holds an iPad showing an Augmented reality character in front of two large black boilers
Activity Scienceworks

FlushBack iPad Activity

In this self-guided augmented-reality experience, step back in time and save Melbourne from becoming “Smellbourne”. Recommended for all ages 8+.
Child between a man and a woman using an exhibition interactive
Exhibition Scienceworks

Ground Up: Building Big Ideas, Together

Get ready to build your curiosity! An exhibition for babies to 5-year-olds.

Immigration Museum

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