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  • Baby looking in a mirror.
  • Young children playing around some large standing stones.
  • Young children playing indoors on large stylised toy train.

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.

Hours

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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The City of Melbourne respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land we govern, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong Boon Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin and pays respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.

We acknowledge and honour the unbroken spiritual, cultural and political connection the Wurundjeri, Bunurong, Dja Dja Wurrung, Taungurung and Wadawurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin have to this unique place for more than 2000 generations.

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