Looking for great activities to do during the autumn school holidays? Fall for laughter, creativity and adventure these school holidays with Melbourne Museum‘s FUN-tastic program!
Enjoy family-friendly shows from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, create a marvellous underwater work at the Creative Lab and build a 5-star safety cardboard car with Road to Zero!
Check out these fantastic programs, events and exhibitions running at Melbourne Museum from Saturday 30 March to Sunday 14 April 2024.
Melbourne Museum Autumn School Holiday Activities & Workshops
There are lots of things to see and do at Melbourne Museum these school holidays!
1. Creative Lab
In this fun, creative and crafty watercolour workshop about underwater creatures, kids aged 3-10 are invited to learn through play and imagination.
Young minds will build a lavish habitat for their favourite Victorian animal and will take home digital photographs to remember their creation!
This ticket is an add-on to Melbourne Museum General Admission and participating children and guardians must have a museum entry ticket.
Creative Lab | Sat 30 Mar to Sun 14 Apr | Child $10 | Member Child $8
2. Make a Car, Be a Star!
Wonder if your family’s car meets five-star safety standards?
Create a cardboard car model to take home and explore activity stations to understand road safety ratings with this free workshop for kids. Parents, grandparents, and carers can also check their vehicle’s crash protection during the activity!
Make a Car, Be a Star! is free and does not require Melbourne Museum entry.
Make a Car, Be a Star! |Tue 2 Apr to Sat 13 Apr 2024 | FREE
3. Titanic: The Artefact Exhibition
Collect your boarding pass and embark on a journey to explore the powerful stories of those who travelled and worked onboard the legendary ship.
Read our Titanic Exhibition review.
Titanic: The Artefact Exhibition | Until Sun 21 Apr | Adult $32.50 | Child $18 | Concession $22.50 | Member $14 – Includes Museum entry
Melbourne Museum Autumn School Holiday Shows
4. Melbourne International Comedy Festival Shows
Laugh out loud these autumn school holidays with a side-splitting lineup of comedy shows designed for kids and their fun-loving families.
Melbourne Museum is the Home of Melbourne International Comedy Festival with a program of hilarious performances, bubble extravaganza, comedy circus, grosstastic gags, silly acrobatics and First Nations dance and storytelling filled with humour.
Melbourne International Comedy Festival at Melbourne Museum | Sat 30 Mar – Sun 14 Apr | Does not include entry to Melbourne Museum
Melbourne Museum Autumn School Holiday Exhibits
While you have free time during the school holidays, make sure you visit these awesome exhibits at Melbourne Museum.
- Pauline Gandel Children’s Gallery (Daily Exhibition) – a wondrous place for babies to five-year-olds to explore, play and learn.
- Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs (Daily Exhibition) – Come face to face with one of the most awe-inspiring creatures ever to walk the Earth—the Triceratops.
- Gondwana Garden (Daily Exhibition) – Wander through Gondwana Garden and step into ecosystems of the past.
- Dinosaur Walk (Daily Exhibition) – Walk among skeletons of prehistoric animals.
- 600 Million Years (Daily Exhibition) – The origin and evolution of life in Victoria.
- Dynamic Earth (Daily Exhibition) – A brilliant, immersive exhibition about our ever-changing Earth.
- Top Designs 2024 (Sat 23 Mar – Sun 14 Jul) – Discover the future of Victorian design at Top Designs, a multidisciplinary exhibition celebrating some of the finest works created by VCE and VET students.
- Mini Mega Model Museum (Daily Exhibition) – Welcome to the Mini Mega Model Museum, where the apples are wax and the Colosseum is small!
Check out the rest of Melbourne Museum’s must-do permanent exhibitions
Play outside at Carlton Gardens
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