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

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 25 September
Melbourne Museum
A young girl looks off camera while kneeling in front of an Australian Spider Crab specimen.

Tiny Tours: Rainforest to Reef

Tour Tuesday 10 November
Melbourne Museum
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
Melbourne Museum
d. A red panda in the humid montane mixed forest, Sichuan, China

Wild Asia 3D

IMAX Various dates
Melbourne Museum
Great white shark swimming with other small fish

Shark Kingdom 3D

IMAX Various dates
Melbourne Museum
Close up of king penguins

Penguin Island 3D

IMAX Various dates
Melbourne Museum

Scienceworks

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
Scienceworks

Tycho Goes to Mars

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

FlushBack iPad Activity

Activity Daily
Scienceworks
Child between a man and a woman using an exhibition interactive

Ground Up: Building Big Ideas, Together

Exhibition Daily
Scienceworks
Two girls using the Cathy Freeman interactive In Sportworks

Sportsworks

Exhibition Opens Saturday 7 November
Scienceworks
Entrance to Think Ahead

Think Ahead

Exhibition Opens Saturday 7 November
Scienceworks

Museum of the Moon

Display Opens Saturday 7 November
Scienceworks
Planet in space

Ticket to the Universe

Planetarium Various sessions
Scienceworks
four men in front of a pumping engine

Pumping Station Guided Walk

Tour Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays
Scienceworks

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
Immigration Museum
External view of Immigration Museum from Flinders Street in early evening.

Immigration Museum Guided Highlights Tour

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

Culture Makers

Display Until Thursday 6 May 2027
Immigration Museum
Visitor family in the Tribute Garden in Immigration Museum.

Tribute Garden

Display Opens Saturday 7 November
Immigration Museum
A woman looks at displays in Voices Across Time exhibition in the Immigration Museum.

Voices Across Time

Exhibition Opens Saturday 7 November
Immigration Museum
Illuminated images of early Melbourne standing on the floor of the Long Room in the Immigration Museum.

The Long Room

Exhibition Opens Saturday 7 November
Immigration Museum

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