child looking up at a dinosaur skeleton.

Winter School Holidays

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SPECIAL EVENT
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Tickets
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Warm up your winter with creativity and curiosity at Melbourne Museum – where your adventure begins!

This winter, Melbourne Museum is the place to be for young adventurers ready to spark their creativity! Create your own coral reef in Little Landscapes, discover the world of insects in Creative Lab: Bug Out, explore the wonders of dinosaurs in Dino Days and go on a journey through natural and prehistoric worlds in a Tiny Tour. There’s no shortage of hands-on fun, exploration, learning and endless imagination!

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Events

Workshop

LEGO® Star Wars Brickman Masterclasses

LEGO® master Ryan McNaught leads an exclusive hands-on masterclass in LEGO® Star Wars: The Exhibition.
First Peoples banners hang in the Main Foyer area of Melbourne Museum.
Special event Bunjilaka

NAIDOC Week Family Day

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of NAIDOC Week at Melbourne Museum’s Family Day.
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 Until

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

The Making of LEGO® Star Wars

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

Star Wars Galactic Cafe

Experience the Star Wars™ universe like never before with Australia’s first Star Wars Galactic Café at Melbourne Museum.
A front view of a paper coral reef diorama showcasing various underwater animals.
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Little Landscapes

Create your own tiny dioramas, exploring the wonders of land and sea!
A child colouring in an insect to be added to a diorama.
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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 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 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 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.
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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 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!

Exhibitions

Accessibility

We can assist with any access requirements you may have for this program, please contact our team on 13 11 02 or email us at [email protected] to discuss how we can support your Museum visit.

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