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Children's Gallery Melbourne Museum

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The Pauline Gandel Children's Gallery at Melbourne Museum is a wondrous place where children can explore, play and learn.

Future palaeontologists will excavate fossils in a dinosaur dig. Budding botanists will traverse the discovery garden, exploring plants and stories. Young curators can gaze at specially selected museum objects. For everyone who loves to dance, there is a 'camouflage disco' where children turn into spotty and stripy disco dancing animals.

This unique gallery is for families, carers, educators and children to learn together. The exhibitions combine hands-on exploration and discovery, open-ended play-based learning, extraordinary immersive environments and unique museum collection objects.

Suitable for babies to five-year-olds.

Dates and times

Day Times
Monday
  • 10am - 5pm 10am - 5pm
Tuesday
  • 10am - 5pm 10am - 5pm
Wednesday
  • 10am - 5pm 10am - 5pm
Thursday
  • 10am - 5pm 10am - 5pm
Friday
  • 10am - 5pm 10am - 5pm
Saturday
  • 10am - 5pm 10am - 5pm
Sunday
  • 10am - 5pm 10am - 5pm

Location

Melbourne Museum
11 Nicholson St
Carlton 3053

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Contact details

  • telephone number: 03 8341 7767
  • email address: AskUs@museum.vic.gov.au
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