Museums Victoria School Holidays

Saturday 4 to Sunday 19 April

Museums Victoria / Museums Victoria School Holidays

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

Melbourne Museum

Autumn School Holidays

Special event Saturday 4 to Sunday 19 April
Carved stone head of Emperor Augustus.

ROME: Empire, Power, People

Exhibition Wednesday 1 April to Sunday 25 October
Children and their guardian in sleeping bags beneath giant dinosaur skeletons.

Museum Sleepovers

Special event Various dates
Two performers in bright orange and blue space suits with bubble helmets sit on an asteroid as it zooms through space.

Melbourne International Comedy Festival

Festival Saturday 4 to Sunday 19 April
A young girl looks off camera while kneeling in front of an Australian Spider Crab specimen.

Tiny Tours: Rainforest to Reef

Tour Tuesdays
A Programs Officer shows children displays in the 600 Million Years exhibition.

Tiny Tours: Whale to Tail

Tour Monday 6 & 13 April
Children being read to during a Dino Day at Melbourne Museum.

Dino Days

Special event Wednesdays 10am to 2pm
Great white shark swimming with other small fish

Shark Kingdom 3D

IMAX Various dates
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
A child uses coloured paints and penicils to make bugs for a diorama.

Creative Lab: Rise of the Gladiators

Workshop Tuesday 7 to Sunday 19 April

Mosaic Monuments

Activity Saturday 4 to Sunday 19 April
Woman talking to a crowd about the eels in the pond

Eel feeding

Talk Daily

Stop, Look, Listen, Think & Stick: Your Path to Safety

Activity Various dates

Scienceworks

Autumn School Holidays

Special event Saturday 4 to Sunday 19 April
Two young people sit on the floor in a brightly lit room filled with colourful projected lights. The person in the foreground holds up a gold foil packet and a green card toward the camera, while the person behind them sits cross‑legged and smiles. The overlapping pink, blue, purple, and green light patterns create a vibrant, playful atmosphere.

Colour: See the World in a New Light

Exhibition Saturday 21 March to Tuesday 26 January 2027

Ready to Launch Show

Show Saturday, 4 April 2026 to ​Sunday 19 April

Tycho Goes to Mars

Planetarium Daily
light with movement

Starlight

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

FlushBack iPad Activity

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

Ground Up: Building Big Ideas, Together

Exhibition Opens Sunday 8 March
Two girls using the Cathy Freeman interactive In Sportworks

Sportsworks

Exhibition Opens Sunday 8 March
Entrance to Think Ahead

Think Ahead

Exhibition Opens Sunday 8 March

Museum of the Moon

Display Opens Sunday 8 March
A child is blowing through a straw, which has pushed a small paper-rocket through the air.

Pocket Rockets

Workshop Saturday 20 December to Tuesday 27 January
A visitor enjoying a ‘Fulldome Flick’ in the Melbourne Planetarium. 

Fulldome Flicks

Planetarium Saturdays this March, April & May
girl, robot and boy

Tilt

Planetarium Saturday 4 to Sunday 19 April
Planet in space

Ticket to the Universe

Planetarium Daily
1950s powerboat in the museum's collection store

Collection Store Guided Walk

Tour Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays
four men in front of a pumping engine

Pumping Station Guided Walk

Tour Wednesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays

Immigration Museum

A hand reaches for an order from an order board on the restaurant's kitchen wall.

Order Up: A City Fed by Many Cultures

Exhibition Until Sunday 5 April

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