The Pumping Station at Scienceworks will be closed from Monday 19 to Thursday 29 May for maintenance works. We apologise for any inconvenience.

The Pumping Station at Scienceworks will be closed from Monday 19 to Thursday 29 May for maintenance works. We apologise for any inconvenience.

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

Exhibition Until 26 January 2026

Tinkertown

The entry to Scienceworks Museum at night.

Special event Saturday 21 June

Scienceworks After Dark

Planetarium Next session 4:30pm

Fulldome Flicks

Children wearing construction vests engaging with the Tiny Tinkers - Roll Zone activity, within the Planetarium Foyer, during the Little Kids Day In program at Scienceworks, on 8th December 2023.

Special event Friday 30 May

Little Kids Day In | Tiny Tradies

A man looks up at the planetarium ceiling during a Planetarium Night's show.

Planetarium Friday nights

Planetarium Nights

Boy colouring rocket playhouse at Little Kids Day In event in Scienceworks.

Activity Friday 30 May

Budding Builders

Four young people smile while playing with a robot and colourful building blocks

Workshop Until 22 November

STEM Weekend Workshops

Children participating in Bugs in Mud activities during Little Kids Day In event in Scienceworks

Activity Friday 30 May

Pocket-sized Plumbers

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

The Glow Show

This false-color image from three of NASA Great Observatories provides one example of a star that died in a fiery supernova blast. Called Cassiopeia A, this supernova remnant is located 10,000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia

Pride Month Stargayzing Show

Planetarium Next session Sunday 11am

Tycho Goes to Mars

Family reading a book at Book Nook display in the Beyond Perception exhibition, during the Little Kids Day In program at Scienceworks, on 8th December 2023.

Activity Friday 30 May

Book Nook

light with movement

Planetarium Next session Saturday 26 July, 3pm

Starlight

Four young people smile while conducting an experiment with different coloured liquids in plastic cups

Workshop Until 13 December

Science Studio

Two new small Van de Graff Generators making music in the Lightning Room at Scienceworks

Show Friday 30 May

The Mini Weather Show

A young person poses holding a blue mBot robot

Workshop Until 22 November

Robots and Coding

Activity Friday 30 May

Tiny Tinkerers

Child creating their own story of Caring for Country by colouring a native animal in the Energy LAB, during the Little Kids Day In - Caring for Country program at Scienceworks, August 2022.

Activity Friday 30 May

Petite Painters

Museum of the Moon

A family walking hand in hand through an exhibition at Scienceworks

Special event Until 6 December

Low Sensory Sessions

girl, robot and boy

Planetarium Next session Saturday 5 July, 12 noon

Tilt

Tour Until 30 April 2026

Scienceworks Guided Highlights Tour

Children driving replica trucks and earthmovers.

Activity Friday 30 May

Tradie Town

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

FlushBack iPad Activity

Assembly of the Great Melbourne Telescope, Melbourne Observatory, 1869

Exhibition Daily

Great Melbourne Telescope Restoration

A spacecraft flys past an icy moon.

Planetarium Next session 3pm

Solar System Adventures

Planet in space

Planetarium Next session Sunday 1pm

Ticket to the Universe

1950s powerboat in the museum's collection store

Collection Store Guided Walk

four men in front of a pumping engine

Pumping Station Guided Walk

Disk with jet

Planetarium Next session Sunday 2pm

Black Holes

Beyond Perception

Exhibition Daily

Beyond Perception: Seeing the Unseen

Exhibition Daily

Sportsworks

Entrance to Think Ahead

Exhibition Daily

Think Ahead

Child between a man and a woman using an exhibition interactive

Exhibition Daily

Ground Up: Building Big Ideas, Together

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