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Child between a man and a woman using an exhibition interactive

Ground Up: Building Big Ideas, Together

Get ready to build your curiosity! A brand new exhibition for babies to 5-year-olds.

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Earthlight: Spacewalk

Be immersed in an authentic experience of space with the virtual reality game Earthlight: Spacewalk.

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Susan Bamford-Caleo watching two girls play music with the Federation Handbells at Little Kids Day In at Scienceworks.

Little Kids' Day In – Let's Get Musical!

We're celebrating Children's Week with a day full of live music and performances, a cacophony of instruments and getting groovy with an exploration of beats, rhythm and melody!

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special event
Museum members participating in the Robots workshop.

Weekend Workshops

In pairs of one adult and one child, participants will work together to build skills in STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths).

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A close up view of the moon sculpture, showing craters and other geological features present on the moon surface.

Museum of the Moon

Bathe in moonlight and deepen your connection to Earth's natural satellite.

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Child playing with blocks

Little Kids' Day In

Enjoy a day of fun and play-based learning activities without the school groups!

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A laptop computer screen shows a game being programmed. An adult’s and a child’s hands are pointing at the screen.

Coding with Scratch

Curious about coding? Come along to this introductory workshop!

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An iPad tablet displaying the ScratchJr app

Storytelling With ScratchJr

ScratchJr is a programming app for tablets, based on Scratch, which allows young children to ease into coding by telling stories with animated characters.

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workshop
A child holds a Sphero® robot in her hand. The robot is the size and shape of a tennis ball. There is a light shining from inside.

Sphero Rollbot Workshop

Get rolling with Sphero robots in this introductory workshop.

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Woman and girl working on a lego robot

Open Play – Robotics Workshop

Have you previously attended a Sphero® or LEGO® robotics workshop? This unguided session allows more time to tinker!

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workshop
A person’s finger is about to touch a piece of dry alphabet soup. The alphabet soup pieces are connected by wires to a Makey Makey electronic board. The letters spell out “I luv makey makey

Makey Makey workshop

Make and create with Makey Makey® in this introductory workshop.

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workshop
Lego Robotics and Coding Workshop

Lego robotics and coding workshop

Discover the power of LEGO® Mindstorms® EV3 robots and coding in this introductory workshop.

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workshop
Two girls using the Cathy Freeman interactive In Sportworks

Sportsworks

Stretch your mind and your muscles.

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exhibition
four men in front of a pumping engine

Pumping Station tours

A tour filled with stories of old Melbourne and Victorian engineering feats.

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tour
Entrance to Think Ahead

Think Ahead

What will the future be like?

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exhibition
A lightning strike illuminates the sky near the Thevenard silos at Ceduna, South Australia.

Bolt from the Blue

Explore the remarkable properties and mysteries of lightning.

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screenshot from Solar System Odyssey

Solar System Odyssey

Join Jack Larson on a wild ride through our Solar System as he searches for a new world to call home.

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Planetarium
cartoon of a dog in a kennel

Tycho to the Moon

Meet Tycho, a dog who doesn’t just howl at the Moon, but wants to go there.

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Planetarium
Planet in space

Ticket to the Universe

Take a trip to the far reaches of space, with our Scienceworks presenters as your tour guide.

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Planetarium
girl, robot and boy

Tilt

When the seasons go crazy Annie and Max must set things right and discover a new angle on the world.

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Planetarium
Stars in the night sky

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!

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Planetarium Session times unavailable
hand overlaid on a night sky illustration

Stories in the Stars

A new way – the oldest way – of looking at the night sky.

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Disk with jet

Black Holes

Imagine a place where time stands still and the known laws of physics don’t apply.

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Four avatars

The Problem with Pluto

When is a planet not a planet?

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Our Living Climate

A dramatic and different way of looking at our climate.

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