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  • The foyer of Melbourne Museum, with people seated on the floor watching and listening to a performance on a stage.
  • Entrance to the Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre at Melbourne Museum.
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6 Jul

NAIDOC Week Family Day

  • Family and kids
  • Events

This year celebrates fifty years of NAIDOC Week with the theme The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy.

Celebrate NAIDOC Week at the Melbourne Museum Family Day with a Welcome to Country on the Museum Plaza, market stalls, performance, artist talk and family activities. Join for more NAIDOC Week events including the Indigenous Space Futures First Peoples Astronomy Panel and Nocturnal: Next Gen.

Celebrate the legacy of those who have come before us and empower the future young leaders.

Entry to this event is included with a museum entry ticket.

Hours

Date Times
Sun 6 Jul
  • 10am - 3pm 10:00am - 3:00pm

Location

Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre
Melbourne Museum
11 Nicholson St
Carlton 3053

Open in maps location for Melbourne Museum

Price and bookings

Adult / general $15
Children free
Book online for NAIDOC Week Family Day

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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 Kulin and pays respect to their Elders past and present. We acknowledge and honour the unbroken spiritual, cultural and political connection they have maintained to this unique place for more than 2000 generations.

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