Museums Victoria School Holidays

Saturday 27 June to Sunday 12 July

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

A museum exhibit featuring a life-sized polar bear mounted inside a glass display case with an icy backdrop. The enclosure is designed with white angular panels and includes a sign reading “Life on the ice.” The surrounding space has bright blue and white lighting with patterned blue flooring, creating an Arctic-themed environment.

Winter School Holidays

Special event Saturday 27 June to Sunday 12 July

ROME: Empire, Power, People

Exhibition Until Sunday 25 October
Children and their guardian in sleeping bags beneath giant dinosaur skeletons.

Museum Sleepovers

Special event Various dates
A young girl looks off camera while kneeling in front of an Australian Spider Crab specimen.

Tiny Tours: Rainforest to Reef

Tour Tuesdays
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 presenter dressed as a Roman Centurion talks to kids wearing their own Centurion outfits they have made themselves from cardboard. A fake fire and swords on racks are in the background of a room made to look like the interior of a Roman building.

Creative Lab: Rise of the Gladiators

Workshop Saturday 27 June to Sunday 12 July
A girl colours in a mosaic tile then places it on a column.

Mosaic Monuments

Activity Saturday 27 June to Sunday 12 July
A child places stickers on a life-size cardboard car.

Road to Zero’s Big (Safe) Cardboard Car

Activity Monday 29 June to Saturday 11 July

Scienceworks

Boy in the 'Beyond Perception' Exhibition during the Winter School Holidays at Scienceworks, July 2018

Winter School Holidays

Special event Saturday 27 June to Sunday 12 July
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
A museum display of many differently coloured beetles

Nature: A Kaleidoscope of Colour

Workshop Saturday 27 June to Sunday 12 July

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 Daily
Two girls using the Cathy Freeman interactive In Sportworks

Sportsworks

Exhibition Daily
Entrance to Think Ahead

Think Ahead

Exhibition Daily

Museum of the Moon

Display Daily
girl, robot and boy

Tilt

Planetarium Until Monday 19 October
Planet in space

Ticket to the Universe

Planetarium Various sessions
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

Immigration Museum Guided Highlights Tour

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

Culture Makers

Display Until Monday 16 November
Visitor family in the Tribute Garden in Immigration Museum.

Tribute Garden

Display Daily
A woman looks at displays in Voices Across Time exhibition in the Immigration Museum.

Voices Across Time

Exhibition Daily
Illuminated images of early Melbourne standing on the floor of the Long Room in the Immigration Museum.

The Long Room

Exhibition Daily

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