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Melbourne Museum

4.0 (42 reviews)
Closed 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

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David S.

Honestly, I can't really say that I am a particularly big fan of natural history museums, which is what this place happens to be. Sure, they do have some interesting exhibitions on here, but of late they do seem to be few and far between. In a way I sort of prefer animals to be alive as opposed to being stuffed. However, when it comes to dinosaurs, they do have some rather interesting, and quite large, fossils, but other than that I can't say that this place is particularly all that great.

Geoff B.

Great place to visit while in Melbourne. Impressive indigenous people displays. If you like bugs or even if you don't, their bug displays will ensure you never sleep with the lights off ;-) while in Australia.

Terrence L.

I've probably been here a million times because it's so amazing. Entry is free for students, and probably about 10 bucks for an adult. They're having an exhibition entitled: Afghan Treasures that is probably worth having a look at. My favorite exhibits include: Petrified Birds, Dinosaur Bones, and the Mind & Body Section. Take a walk in the outdoor forest because it's absolutely gorgeous on a nice day. It closes the earliest (4.30pm) as the birds have to roost. Cheap, educational, and fun. I love the Melbourne Museum!

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Clarissa Y.

MAKE WAY! SCIENCE NERD COMING THROUGH! A little disappointed that they moved the space section over to ScienceWorks first of all, but cool nonetheless! Pros: ~ Cheap entry and free for students, don't mind if I do! ~ They really do focus on the learning bit rather than just "point and look". ~ Dinosaurs. Cliche...but awesome. ~ Not too overly crowded so it's not super loud or anything like that. My favourite exhibitions: Mind & Body, Evolution, Geology, Dinosaurs I constantly compared this to the Academy of Sciences in San Francisco (my original home before I moved to Melbourne) and I do have to admit that Melbourne Museum takes the cake! Cons: ~ I went to the King Tut exhibit. It was a bit overpriced seeing as how they didn't even actually have King Tut (the advertisement pictures are rather misleading...). Plus, an overcrowded exhibit :( ~ There's still definitely room for expansion, especially for their indoor rainforest which is just a few trees and a wooden walkway with free-flying birds. There was nothing majestic or amazing about it. Just "oh cool look a tree and a bird in it". They could definitely work on introducing more unique plants or wildlife... or at least add in more educational stuff to make it a better experience. --- Overall, there's still room for improvement but for the most part Melbourne Museum provides a wonderful learning opportunity for people of all ages. I'm a science student at University, and I still managed to discover some new cool things I wasn't aware of before.

Melbourne Museum.
Max T.

I may not love all museums but I appreciate them. In this case I love the Melb Museum. First, the cloakroom is complimentary. You don't get that amenity in America. Coat check would easily be enough for me to hold onto it or tackily wrap it around my waist. Full entrance fee was $12 aside from paid exhibits. Working the museum from left to right on my visit brought me to the dinosaur and deep ocean exhibits plus rocks and minerals. The best to me was the deep ocean then dinosaurs and when it comes to the minerals I can kick rocks. Just doesn't appeal to me. Upstairs from that was a human body and WWI exhibit. Cruised through them pretty fast. Just felt like there wasn't much to engage you unless you already had peak interest. The middle had a live rain forest. It's nice for a stroll but again there wasn't much to engage you as a patron. The idea, placement, and execution of it were brilliant and when I arrived in the museum I knew right away I was looking forward to the stroll. Now the right side is where I could've focused all my attention. Downstairs is a moving aboriginal exhibit which I believe there is an audio tour that I'm going back for. There is culture, tradition, lifestyle, history, anecdotes, sports figures, and of course invasion. It's a broad but concise exhibit that's bringing me back. Upstairs is the Melbourne Story exhibit. I need at least a couple hours up there. Very informative but wish there was audio involved. I used to think audio tours were lame and now I'm begging for them. I recommend everyone passing through to visit once and if you live here at least once a year. Never forget to be a tourist at home. There is also an IMAX and it would be nice to catch something there during my time in Melbourne.

Aztecs exibition!
Jennifer N.

Every year I have been here, I have never been disappointed. I must say I have only been here to go to the temporary exhibition. From the Aztec's (last day was today), James Bond, Tutankhamun and many more. I come out more interested and inspired to learn more. The artefacts are so amazing and it's fascinating to see how well preserved they are. Melbourne does well in getting in the big guns of exhibitions. Until the next exhibition...

Henrique K.

Melbourne Museum is walking distance from CBD. Great value for money, it only costs $10 bucks to get in and kids are free. The interactive displays are really well made with heaps of interesting things to look at. I spent hours browsing through the galleries, very impressive collection, worth checking out the giant squid (10 metres), the animals and insect displays are heaps of fun! I really enjoyed the Melbourne gallery, fascinating insight to this amazing city! Pity I didn't have enough time to check out the other exhibitions that was on (extra, not sure how much it cost). Found some cool toys for my daughter at the gift shop. She loved it! Can't wait to bring my daughter next time I visit!

Travis K.

If you're a tourist in Melbourne, the main reason you'd probably come here is to see one of Australia's first sporting heroes in the form of the mighty Phar Lap's stuffed carcass on display but the Melbourne Museum offers so much more. Having recently toured many a European museum and gallery I have to say the Melbourne Museum is one of the best I've been to. It's free for concession card holders, regularly has interesting exhibitions (King Tut most recently) and has what every good museum should - dinosaur skeletons. The aboriginal section, Australian fauna and early-Australian settler exhibitions are particularly impressive. It's a genuinely interesting experience, set in beautiful garden surrounds and you get the added benefit of being able to work out your weight in gold for the next time somebody compliments you!

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The Melbourne Museum is value for money, not to mention when you go with kids you have a great time! Entry is only $8 for adults, and free for concession and children under 15. There are at least six different areas with regular exhibitions and special exhibitions that change monthly. The regulars have become a lot more interactive so kids can really get in there and discover animals, marine life, the human body, Melbourne history - some fantastic pictures of Burke St charting the time periods of Melbourne from the 1800s to today. Special exhibitions come from everywhere and recently have included top designs by Victorian school students, titanic, and indigenous history. The Museum also incorporates an IMAX cinema, the largest format for film. I saw my first 3D film there, a documentary on sharks narrated by Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet. Now you can see anything including the new Toy Story 3 coming out later in the year. Yep, definitely one of my favourite places in Melbourne :-)

Alexander R.

One of the highlights of Melbourne is our beautifully modern museum. I have enjoyed many exhibitions over the years where they are always well run events and truly a spectacle. This year of course has been the Tutankhamen exhibition that has traveled the world. It was an enlightening experience but also very "Disney" in the way it was put together. The beginning of the tour felt like we were all about to go on the Batman ride. Maybe it didn't need to be so over the top where they really hammed up the "mystery" factor and audio commentary by Omar Sharif was a bit hit and miss. All the same, its historical meaning and the artifacts are amazing in their own right. I found out later that the museum itself doesn't control the exhibition so I forgive the "Disney" factor. In general the Melbourne Museum is a great day out and I love the area with Carlton Garden's, IMAX and really nice surrounding streets all within a few hundred metres. You never know, you might learn something as well.

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Review Highlights - Melbourne Museum

In general the Melbourne Museum is a great day out and I love the area with Carlton Garden's, IMAX and really nice surrounding streets all within a few hundred metres.

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Australian Centre for the Moving Image - Seating area

Australian Centre for the Moving Image

4.4(31 reviews)
1.6 kmMelbourne

ACMI, formerly known as the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, is a free museum for everything…read moreabove movies, television and video games. Easy to find in Federation Square. So interesting to wander and see how movies are made as well as props from movies and television shows. Loved the section on animation. Grab a disc to collect information that you can view later about what you experienced. Definitely worth a short or long detour to ACMI.

We were walking around Melbourne and checking out it without a real purpose and saw a sign saying…read morethat entrance was free. You only had to pay extra if you wanted to experience the exhibit they have running at the time, which would probably be worth it. It seems to be a rotating exhibit. The free part was about the moving picture over the years. When you go in they give you this little disk that had a unique code and probably an nfc chip so you can tap it at each exhibit you liked to "collect" it and go to a website later and vote so the things you saw once again. This really makes you want to check more exhibits out and go all around. I think I connected 45 because at the end they have a spot to check how many exhibits you collected. They even had a station where you could create your own flip book. You would stand in front of a screen which would record you mongering for 3-5 seconds and then at the gift shop you could see the flip book and but it if you wanted. My wife and I both bought ours.. a more personalized souvenir. At the end they have a few kiosks where you can tap your cats to donate and we did that because this is definitely an experience that is worth staying around. I ain't it must get really busy on the weekends, but during the day in a weekend, it was the right amount of busy. I would definitely check it out and kids would love it.

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Australian Centre for the Moving Image - Gift shop

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Immigration Museum

Immigration Museum

4.2(18 reviews)
2.0 kmMelbourne

I love exploring local museums so I stopped here to learn more about how Australia became a big hub…read morefor immigration. I learned alot and I loved how vibrant the exhibits were.

I visited this museum on my first day in Melbourne in hopes of learning the history of the area…read more This place did not disappoint! For what seemed to be such a small museum actually turned into hours of me poring over every word on timelines and information they gave. Learning the history of the First People's and the colonization of Australia was incredible, but eerily familiar. The parallels between US history and Australian history were shocking and I felt so ignorant not having known all of that. I love the recognition of the First People's and the stories that are being told recognizing the terrible past. In talking to Australians, they admit they have a long way to go. As an American, it feels like Australia is in the future and we are way in the past still denying the truth. This museum was amazing! They also had an exhibit called "Joy" that I was unaware about until I was inside of the museum. I loved it! It was filled with whimsy and color and sound and then went into subjects and posed questions to stimulate introspection. I walked away feeling like I learned a little about myself too. I highly recommend this museum! It gave me an amazing foundation of history that helped me learn more as I explored and visited more museums!

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Immigration Museum - A still from "Act of Translation"

A still from "Act of Translation"

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Polly Woodside

Polly Woodside

3.7(3 reviews)
2.9 kmSouth Wharf

It is designed to be a family friendly historical establishment. I took this into consideration in…read moredetermining the ratings here; they really do care and put a lot on for their families (must be their target audience as opposed to a young person in their early thirties) so therefore, I have tried to keep an open mind here. For me I was a little bored, although I did learn something interesting about the Victorian maritime system; yet there isn't overly too much to look at, so again this establishment is slightly overrated in my eyes; I was bored. However for families that put on special events like family fun day where children can get their face painted and receive goodie bags, and also get the opportunity to dress up as pirates; only to name a few different activities as part of their family fun days which children get to relish. It is popular among families, and expect to be patient when queuing to get in. Luckily there is a cafe pit stop to enjoy the end of the journey, although I cannot comment much on this cafe because I decided to pass on my coffee on this occasion. Still interesting to discover though. Give it a go.

For a start, this place is called Polly Woodside…read more Go on, say it. Poll-eeey Wood-siide. Feels good huh? Secondly, it's a great place to wander around on a day. If you're a budding photographer then you'll find some good spots here and if you fork out $15 you can go poke around on the tall ship. Everyone loves a tall ship!

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Polly Woodside - Beautiful by day or night.

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Scienceworks

Scienceworks

3.7(15 reviews)
7.7 km

Great place. I took our 14month old in for free as newborns receive a family 6month entry for free…read moremembership. Very hands on - plenty of spaces to explore and be adventurous. Best to get there about 9:45am to avoid waiting in queue, especially in school holidays. We'll be back! We have more sections to explore.

This is a great place to bring primary school age kids (or younger) for a full day of fun,…read moreespecially when there are special exhibits such as the Explore-a-saurus Exhibition. Where else can kids see moving roaring dinosaurs in Melbourne? Furthermore, the Nitty Gritty Super City upstairs offers many fun activities, such as a mock construction site. There's even a realistic Lego model of Melbourne. Unfortunately, there is nothing for adults to do other than accompany the kids. In this respect, the use of the word Museum is somewhat misleading. Play-centre would've been a much better description. Adults will learn little from the exhibits. For example, the dinosaur exhibition skips over the origin, geological periods, evolution or demise of these animals. They are not arranged in any chronological order, and not even to scale. For example, the T-rex is roughly half size. And nothing from the Triassic period. Again I have to remind myself it's for KIDS ONLY. The cafe is disappointing, offering mostly pies, sandwiches, chips but no healthy cooked food. At least there is real coffee. In summary, adults with no kids should stay away. But I'll probably bring my kids back here for more.

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Scienceworks - Inside House Secrets exhibition...close ups of your furniture

Inside House Secrets exhibition...close ups of your furniture

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