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Children and their carers engaging in a creative craft workshop around a table at the State Library Victoria.
25 – 26 Jul

OPEN Play at State Library Victoria

  • Free
  • Family and kids

OPEN Play is Open House Melbourne’s educational program for young people and youth exploring the role good design plays in shaping our community and city. As part of the Weekend, you're invited to get creative and explore the theme Generous City.

Kids are invited to find ways to create new and interesting solutions to design challenges provided by the facilitator — all materials are supplied.

Drop in session; no bookings required. Capacity limits may apply and operates on a one in, one out basis

Suits ages 3 to 10 years. All children must be accompanied by an adult and all adults accompanied by a child.

Presented as part of Open House Melbourne.

Hours

Date Times
Sat 25 Jul
  • 10am - 2pm 10:00am - 2:00pm
Sun 26 Jul
  • 10am - 2pm 10:00am - 2:00pm

Location

State Library Victoria
328 Swanston St
Melbourne 3000

Open in maps location for State Library Victoria

Price and bookings

This is a free event

Booking not required

Contact details

  • Visit website for OPEN Play at State Library Victoria
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Accessibility

  • Accessible toilets
  • Assisted listening
  • Mobility access
  • Service animals

All accessibility information is self-reported by the listing owner. It has not been verified by the City of Melbourne.

Also part of Open House Melbourne Weekend

A wide outdoor stone walkway flanked by low brick planter boxes with green plants, leading toward a large arched opening in a modern white stone apartment building.
25 Jul

Local: Kensington - Open House

Part of Open House Melbourne, this tour considers build-to-rent as a model for the long term.

  • Free
  • Talk
Interior of the ANZ Banking Museum, with artefacts from the bank's history and a display of colourful money boxes, within the restored heritage chamber.
24 – 26 Jul

ANZ Gothic Bank Museum: Open House

Take a self-guided tour of the ANZ Banking Museum inside the magnificent Gothic Bank chamber.

  • Free
  • Tour
Five stylized figures with plants and flowers instead of heads, walking against a background featuring a yellow building with large dome shapes under a blue sky.
22 Jul

Melbourne Conversations: Designing with Country

How can design reveal and strengthen our connections to Country?

  • Free
  • Talk
The ornate, light-coloured facade of Melbourne Athenaeum Library, featuring classical architectural details, multiple windows on two main floors, decorative columns, and a central statue niche at the top under a cloudy blue sky.
24 – 26 Jul

Melbourne Athenaeum Library: A Hidden Gem

Explore the Melbourne Athenaeum Library as part of Open House Melbourne weekend.

  • Free
  • Activity

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A preschool aged child with curly hair wearing a red dress, holding open a book and looking at it.
Until 8 Dec

Preschool Storytime

Sing songs and read stories with your young child at North Melbourne Library.

  • Free
  • Family and kids
A smiling woman with a ukulele seated at a desk with two picture books on display.
Until 11 Dec

Stompers

Join in the Stompers fun with your toddler at narrm ngarrgu Library every Friday.

  • Free
  • Family and kids
A woman smiling and holding up a copy of The Very Hungry Caterpillar in a library setting.
Until 10 Dec

Stompers

Join in the Stompers fun with your toddler at North Melbourne Library every Thursday.

  • Free
  • Family and kids
A woman in a yellow hard hat reading a picture book and smiling in a library.
Until 10 Dec

Stompers

Head to Southbank Library on Thursdays to enjoy stories, songs, rhymes and fun.

  • Free
  • Family and kids
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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.

We accept the invitation in the Uluru Statement from the Heart and are committed to walking together to build a better future. For more information, visit Aboriginal Melbourne.

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