New Dino-Mite Activities Across Museums Victoria for Autumn School Holidays
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Get ready for some roar-some school holiday fun at Museums Victoria with activities for curious kids and their dino-loving families.
What’s happening at Melbourne Museum?
Triceratops Dino Dig
11 – 17 April | Federation Square | Free | Daily, 10am - 5pm
Children of all ages are invited to Fed Square to dig, discover and uncover fossilized Triceratops bones. The Melbourne Museum’s Triceratops Dino Dig will be a not-to-be-missed immersive experience that will bring out the palaeontologist in everyone. Prizes are up for grabs, and families will be able to remember the day out with a dino-themed snap.
Complete your dino expedition at Melbourne Museum’s Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs exhibition.
Triceratops Masks
9 - 25 April | Daily, 11am-3pm
Celebrate the arrival of Horridus, one of the world’s most complete Triceratops fossils at Melbourne Museum, by creating your very own 3D face mask! Crease, tuck, and fold your mask into shape then decorate it with the Colours of the Cretaceous palette created by the exhibition’s official Colour Partner, Coloursmith by Taubmans®. Fossil hunters and fashionistas of all ages welcome!
Triceratops in Technicolour
11 - 22 April | Surcharged | Dates and times vary
Create your own augmented reality Triceratops at Melbourne Museum. In this Learning Lab studio workshop, participants will engage with digital art technologies to design and colour a digital ‘skin’ for their very own augmented reality Triceratops. Starting with an immersive experience that shares behind-the-scenes knowledge of the discovery of the Triceratops, by the end of the workshop, participants receive a digital file that enables them to view their augmented reality Triceratops at home.
The (Very) Big Laugh Out
12 - 24 April | Free, bookings essential | Dates and times vary
Melbourne Museum and Melbourne International Comedy Festival present The (Very) Big Laugh Out! The best stand-up, physical and musical comedy performers. It’s exciting, it’s surprising, it’s unpredictable – it’s The (Very) Big Laugh Out! A fabulous line-up of action-packed, free-flowing family fun running right through the school holidays. The best bit? It’s totally FREE!
See the full Melbourne Museum autumn school holiday program.
What’s happening at Scienceworks?!
The Water Hunt
9 - 25 April | Daily
Gather your wits about you and go on a hunt for Wanda the water droplet. We’ve hidden clues around Scienceworks for you to explore and uncover. Find the water sources and discover lots of science all around us! Can you spot all the Wandas and find the secret code to find a prize?
Tricky Sticky Water!
9 - 25 April | Daily, 11.30am & 1.30pm
Join us in the Scienceworks Amphitheatre for splishy splashy demonstrations exploring the weird and wonderful properties of water and why it’s so important to look after this precious resource
Pumping Station Tours
9 - 25 April | Daily, 11.30am & 1.30pm
Hear some of the smelly stories from the straining well and explore the magnificent engine room as you marvel at the engineering feat that helped overcome the stench of 19th century Melbourne in our daily Pumping Station tours.
Lights, Energy, Action!
Daily | Surcharged | Daily, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm & 3pm
Explore all things ENERGY through three rounds of electrifying demonstrations. The show investigates different kinds of energy, including light, sound, electricity, and how they intertwine. We’ll make lightning dance with our ‘singing’ Tesla coils and show how storing energy can produce explosive results. We’ll also investigate how energy can change. Can you turn electricity into sound? What about sound into light? And what energy secrets can be revealed by a small, obscure crustacean? Including spectacular demonstrations, high voltage equipment and charismatic presenters, there’s no better place to spark your curiosity.
See the full Scienceworks autumn holiday program.
