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Melbourne museums, science museums, aviation musuems, railway museums, maritime museums, immigration museums and more..
Happening at 275 Melrose Dr, Melbourne Airport
In 2018, AFL club Essendon agreed to house the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sports hall of fame at their Tullamarine headquarters. The Aboriginal and Islander Sports Hall of Fame was...
Happening at Station Street Alexandra
The Alexandra Timber Tramway and Museum..... is a tourist railway and museum situated in north-central Victoria. There you can see a recreation of the bush sawmill and tramway era of the Rubicon...
Happening at 3 Olivebank Road Ferntree Gully
The land on which the homestead now stands is part of Crown allotment 56K of the Parish of Scoresby. The property originally consisted of 210 acres from Olivebank Road north along Forest Road to...
Happening at 380 Collins Street, Melbourne
The ANZ Banking Museum is housed in the lower ground floor of the 'Gothic Bank' at 380 Collins Street, Melbourne. It was first opened in May 1985 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the...
Happening at Herakleion Parade, Puckapunyal
Puckapunyal Military Area Hopkins Barracks The Museum exists to preserve, exhibit and interpret armoured vehicles, artefacts, icons and memorabilia in order to promote and commemorate...
Happening at 12-20 McBride St, Cockatoo
The Ash Wednesday Bushfire and Education Centre: place of learning about events during bushfire. Gardens: place of reflection about the loss fires bring. The centre is located an old kindergarten...
Happening at Melbourne
Audio Design Museum presents free downloadable audio guided tours and maps of Melbourne. Melbourne discovery tour with a difference! Audio Design Museum shines a light around some of the most...
Happening at Federation Square, Cnr Swanston St and Flinders St Melbourne
Australian Centre for the Moving Image is your museum of film, TV, videogames and art. Exhibitions, immersive experiences and interactive moments that entertain, illuminate and share our...
Happening at 15 Mountain Highway, Wantirna
The Australian Jazz Museum (Incorporating the Victorian Jazz Archive) has an objective of collecting, archiving and disseminating Australian jazz. The Australian Jazz Museum (AJM) mission is to...
Happening at 100 St Kilda Road Melbourne
The Arts Centre Melbourne is opening the Australian Museum of Performing Arts (AMPA) in December 2025, located in Hamer Hall. AMPA will showcase the Australian Performing Arts Collection, an...
Happening at Arts Centre Melbourne, 100 St Kilda Road Melbourne
A celebration of Australian contemporary music - past, present and future. It's online, it's exhibitions, it's from those in the 'music know' sharing their knowledge, memories and collections...
Happening at 77 Beach Road Torquay
The Australian National Surfing Museum is the world's largest surfing museum and is home to theAustralian Surfing Hall of Fame. It is the only accredited surfing museum in the world and houses...
Happening at 21/22 Dimboola Rd, Nhill
AUSTRALIA'S LARGEST SELECTION OF PLAYABLE PINBALLS THATS OPEN EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK The Australian Pinball Museum features pinballs from a wide range of eras including Electromechanical, Solid...
Happening at Brunton Avenue, Jolimont
The Australian Sports Museum at the MCG is your one stop shop for celebrating sport in Australian society. And there is something for everyone. Historic artefacts from some of the great...
Happening at corner Princes Hwy and Farm Rd Werribee
Restoring Australia's only surviving B-24 Liberator This is the only remaining Liberator in the Southern Hemisphere and is one of only eight still existent in the world. This intricate...
Happening at Ballarat Botanic Gardens Ballarat
The Ballarat Tramway Museum is located in the Ballarat Botanic Gardens, on the west side of Lake Wendouree. The Museum operates a collection of historic trams along a return track of 3.2 kms on...
Happening at 78A Main St, Beeac
Beeac Heritage Windmill Park was established in 2010 and commemorates the 150th anniversary of Beeac which is located about 20km from Colac. It celebrates the existence of the businesses of the...
Happening at 14 Mair Street Benalla
The Benalla Costume and Kelly Museum reopened in March 2024 in conjunction with the opening of the new Benalla Visitors Centre. The Visitors Centre and the Museum are open: Monday-Friday...
Happening at 11 Nicholson Street, Carlton
Bunjilaka is the Aboriginal Centre at Melbourne Museum, a venue of Museum Victoria. It was developed to empower Aboriginal people to interpret their own cultural heritage for both Indigenous and...
Happening at Corner Roberts and Stewart St Brunswick East
CERES Community Environment Park is an award winning, not-for-profit, sustainability centre located on 4.5 hectares on the Merri Creek in East Brunswick, Melbourne. A thriving, vibrant community,...
Happening at Purves Road Arthurs Seat
A car museum housing a unique collection of over 80 motor vehicles, memorabilia, model cars & automobile paraphernalia. Charlie's Auto Museum is a 1940's style garage located at Arthur's Seat on...
Happening at 22 Cohen Place Melbourne
Located in the heart of Melbourne's Chinatown, the Museum of Chinese Australian History known locally as the Chinese Museum comprises five floors of priceless artworks, artefacts, fashion, books,...
Happening at 36 Fraser St, Clunes
36 Fraser St, Clunes - The Museum is housed in the former Warehouse (c.1860) of contractors Nichol and Wallace. The redeveloped Nichol and Wallace building, now known as The Warehouse, to reflect...
Happening at 12 Silkstone Road Korumburra
Coal Creek Community Park & Museum was initially created to preserve the unique history of coal, the development of the South Gippsland railway and the rural settlement which was accelerated by the...
Happening at 575A Great Alpine Rd Sarsfield
Cockatoo Rise museum is a collection of war militaria from WW1 till present day conflicts in Iraq and Afghanastan. Visitors will have the opportunity to try on webbing as used in the field today...
Happening at 7 Railway Place, Bendigo
DISCOVERY is a leading regional science centre that seeks to inspire & nurture scientific curiosity. Discovery Science & Technology Centre is regional Victoria's largest not for profit educational...
Happening at 75 Broadway Dunolly
Dunolly Museum is home to Goldfields Historical and Arts Society and Welcome Stranger, the world's biggest alluvial gold nugget found nearby at Moliagul in 1869. The Society holds numerous unique...
Happening at Corner Eureka Street and Rodier Street, Eureka Ballarat
The Eureka Centre is located at the historic site of 1854 Eureka Stockade rebellion and is home to one of Australia's most revered cultural artefacts - the Eureka Flag. Located on the site of...
Happening at 39 Gisborne Street, East Melbourne
Located in the old head office of the Melbourne Fire Brigade, the award-winning museum was opened in 1979 to provide a home and focus for the history of fire fighting services in the Victoria....
Happening at 749 – 755 Collins Street, Docklands
The Fox Classic Car Collection includes more than 50 prestige vehicles collected over a 30 year period by Lindsay Fox. The collection includes Bentley, Ferrari, Jaguar, Porsche and Mercedes Benz...
Happening at 400 Kororoit Creek Road Williamstown North
OPEN BY APPOINTMENT ONLY Take a nostalgic tour of this unique automotive museum and immerse yourself in the history and ambience of a bygone era amid timeless British, European and American...
Happening at 51b Swinburne Street, Geelong North
The Geelong Naval & Maritime Museum is closed to the public. The museum is located in the stables of Osborne House, built in 1857.. The museum is currently closed due to a mold issue...
Happening at ANZCA House, 630 St Kilda Road Melbourne
The Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History showcases over 170 years of advances in anaesthesia and pain medicine, and is one of the largest and most diverse collections of its type in the...
Happening at West Sale Airport Sale
The Gippsland Armed Forces Museum highlights the role played by Gippslanders in our Defence Forces. The Gippsland Armed Forces Museum aims to preserve Gippsland's military heritage, and provide...
Happening at 1A Sale Rd Maffra
The Gippsland Vehicle Collection Motor Museum in Maffra has an outstanding rotating display of interesting vehicles, including veteran, classic, transport and auto memorabilia. Every four months...
Happening at 5-11 Bridge Street, Bendigo
Chinese heritage is an integral part of Bendigo. From the goldrush to the present day, the Bendigo Chinese community has influenced the proud history of Bendigo from its traditions of charitable...
Happening at Gate 13, Royal Parade Parkville
The Grainger Museum-the only purpose-built autobiographical museum in Australia-is home to a wonderful collection of art, photographs, costumes, music scores and instruments acquired by Percy...
Happening at Swanston Street, Melbourne
The Melbourne Planetarium we see today in ScienceWorks replaced the old Melbourne Planetarium or the H V McKay Planetarium which operated at the old Museum in Swanston Street, Melbourne from 1965...
Happening at University of Melbourne, Medical Building, Corner of Grattan Street and Royal Parade, Parkville
One of Australia's largest collections of human tissue, animal anatomy and historical anatomical models, the Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology at the University of Melbourne, is...
Happening at 280 William Street, Melbourne
Australia's only museum dedicated to showcasing the transformational power of Greek art, history & culture. A cultural hub supporting arts, film, and visual performance Australia wide, with a...
Happening at 400 Flinders St Melbourne
Immigration Museum is located in the Old Customs Building, on the bank of Birrarung (Yarra River) on Flinders Street, Melbourne. The Immigration Museum explores stories of people from all over...
Happening at 15A Anderson Rd Thornbury
The Islamic Museum of Australia is a not-for-profit foundation founded in May 2010 with the purpose of establishing the first Islamic Museum in Australia. It aims to showcase the rich artistic...
Happening at Girdlestone Street Ararat
J Ward was a prison in Ararat built 1859 - 1861 as a maximum security psychiatric ward it closed in 1991. It openened on 10 October 1861 with 21 prisoners incarcerated. The first Governor was...
Happening at 26 Alma Road St Kilda
At the Jewish Museum of Australia: Gandel Centre of Judaica, we illuminate Jewish life. We do this knowingly and respectfully acknowledging the rich and diverse indigenous cultures across what is...
Happening at 3 Lumley Court, Prahran
Justin Art House Museum is an initiative of Charles and Leah Justin, who are passionate collectors of contemporary art. Through their house museum they hope to share both their collection and their...
Happening at 67 Piper Street Kyneton
Take a step back in time and visit the Kyneton Museum in historic Piper Street, Kyneton. The collection reflects the life and times of Kyneton and district from around the 1850s to the 1930s and...
Happening at 200 Bessie Creek Rd, Nar Nar Goon
The museum is dedicated to remembering all people and animals in all conflicts. The animals had no choice. The Light Horse and Field Artillery Museum, located in Nar Nar Goon, Victoria Australia,...
Happening at 219 Cotham Road Kew
The Lyon Housemuseum is a private house and private art collection located eight kilometres east of Melbourne in the residential suburb of Kew. The Housemuseum displays selected works from the...
Happening at Airport Road, Mallacoota
The building was originally a WWII Operations Bunker, built in 1942 as an Advanced Operations Base. It was a High Security Installation - part of a chain of defence bases around the Australian...
Happening at 13 Selwyn Street Elsternwick
More than just an award-winning museum and education centre, we also house an incredible collection of eyewitness testimonies, historical documents and artefacts from the Holocaust, available to be...
Happening at Lorimer Street East Southbank
The Melbourne Maritime Museum, managed by the National Trust of Australia, is situated in South Wharf on the Yarra River in the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is home to the Polly...
Happening at Grattan Street Melbourne
Explore, inquire and enjoy the social history of medicine and its role in society through a diverse exhibition program. The Medical History Museum and its collection were formally established in...
Happening at Kernot Rd, University Gate 10, Grattan S Parkville
Australia's largest medical museum featuring a 19th century pharmacy. Explore, inquire and enjoy the social history of medicine and its role in society through a diverse exhibition program. Visit...
Happening at 11 Nicholson St Carlton
Melbourne Museum is regarded as one of the world's most modern enlightening museums. Situated in Carlton Gardens, Melbourne Museum is an exciting and innovative attraction - including permanent...
Happening at Footscray West
DISASTER HAS STRUCK !! SAD, BAD, NEWS M.M.O.P. OPERATIONS ARE SUSPENDED due to failure to attract support. The Melbourne Museum of Printing has a vast collection. Australia's working and...
Happening at 2 Booker St Spotswood
Melbourne Planetarium is located at Scienceworks Museum in Spotswood. It features a 16m domed ceiling, reclining seats, a 7.1 surround sound system and a full-dome video projection system. The...
Happening at 8 Wallen Road Hawthorn
The Melbourne Tram Museum @ Hawthorn Depot is open to visitors on selected Saturday's. This iconic building was built for the Hawthorn Tramways Trust (HTT) and opened in 1916. Located at the...
Happening at Van Ness Avenue, Maribyrnong
Melbourne's Living Museum of the West Inc. is a community museum, with an ecomuseum focus, operating in the western region of Melbourne in the state of Victoria, Australia. The Living Museum, as...
Happening at Melbourne
Discover Melbourne's History at Melbourne Museums portal. Melbourne can claim proudly to have led Australian cities into the modern museum era, making a visit to these monuments of culture and...
Happening at Ground Floor, Building F, 900 Dandenong Road Caulfield East
Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA offers a unique perspective on the recent history of contemporary art and culture, and is adventurous and forward looking in the production, research and...
Happening at 71 Wellington Road Wandin
Mont De Lancey Historical Homestead & Museum Located in Wandin, Victoria, Australia, Mont De Lancey is known to most as a historic home, garden, museum, chapel and 1880's Slab Kitchen. Take a...
Happening at Corner First Street and Second Avenue Moorabbin Airport
The Australian National Aviation Museum contains the finest collection of Australian made and designed aircraft, as well as the broadest collection, with representative types covering the development...
Happening at 199 Faraday Street Carlton
Museo Italiano is a permanent exhibition which draws on and displays the records, images and objects from CO.AS.IT.'s Italian Historical Society. Museo Italiano in Carlton includes Melbourne...
Happening at 51 McKillop Street, Geelong
MoPA: Museum of Play and Art 51 McKillop Street Geelong MoPA is open ALL day EVERY day Note: Tickets must be pre-booked Enjoy unrestricted access to the Museum with MoPA "Free Play"...
Happening at 247 Bay Road Sandringham
MoPA: Museum of Play and Art - Sandringham MoPA is open ALL day EVERY day Note: Tickets must be pre-booked Enjoy unrestricted access to the Museum with MoPA "Free Play" sessions. From the...
Happening at 7723 Goulburn Valley Hwy, Kialla
The Museum of Vehicle Evolution (MOVE). Formerly the Shepparton Motor Museum, our multi-million dollar upgrade has been executed and the transformation is complete. The museum houses classic,...
Happening at Melbourne
Based in Melbourne, Museum Victoria runs four museums at three separate locations, as well as acting as custodian for the Royal Exhibition Building. Museum Victoria, Australia's largest public...
Happening at Melbourne
Australia's largest public museum organisation Museums Victoria has been creating knowledge, entertaining visitors and building the State Collection since 1854. For more than 160 years, the...
Happening at 375 Burwood Road, Hawthorn
Exploring the past, present and future technologies that connect us. The National Communication Museum (NCM) is a brand-new museum in Hawthorn based in a historic 1930s exchange building, parts of...
Happening at Birdwood Avenue Melbourne
Mueller Hall is located within the National Herbarium in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. The National Herbarium of Victoria building is home of the State Botanical Collection. The curved...
Happening at 1200 Ferntree Gully Rd Scoresby
There are over 400 engines and associated exhibits in the Melbourne Steam Traction Engine Club exhibition sheds plus a fabulous miniature railway. The Miniature Railway The track runs for about...
Happening at 25 Veterans Drive, Newhaven
The National Vietnam Veterans Museum on Phillip Island was founded and built by Vietnam veterans to help and support veterans to cope better with their experiences during the Vietnam War...
Happening at 26 Moorabool St, Geelong
At the National Wool Museum, you will discover why fleece from Australias sheep has been the heart of our economy for 200 years. Since the arrival of sheep with the First Fleet in 1788, the wool...
Happening at Lilydale
A virtual museum dedicated to Australia's first international star Dame Nellie Melba Born Helen Porter Mitchell at Richmond Victoria in 1861, she was the daughter of builder and businessman David...
Happening at 26 Champion Road Newport
The Newport Railway Museum hosts an extraordinary collection of steam, diesel and electric trains as well as a host of other railway exhibits. The museum opened in 1962 by the Australian Railway...
Happening at Nhill Aerodrome, Ramsay St Nhill
Located at the aerodrome, this 'not-to-be-missed' tourist attraction is home to a partly restored Avro Anson aeroplane and a fully restored and operating Tiger Moth aeroplane. You will be amazed...
Happening at 35-37 Castella Street Lilydale
The society's home and archive is at the Old Lilydale Court House, 61 Castella St, Lilydale 3140. Our opening hours are: Wednesdays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays 11am to 4pm Fridays 1...
Happening at Birdwood Ave, South Yarra
The Melbourne Observatory in the Royal Botanic Gardens once housed the largest telescope in the world, the Great Melbourne Telescope. Great Melbourne Telescope The Great Melbourne Telescope was...
Happening at 11 Nicholson Street Carlton
Pauline Gandel Children's Gallery Daily 10am-5pm Melbourne Museum Learning starts here The Children's Gallery is a wondrous place for babies to 5-year-olds where children will explore,...
Happening at 90 - 92 Swan Street Cremorne
The Post Office Museum operated between 1974 and 1989 in the former Richmond South Post Office in Swan Street Cremorne (Richmond). The Richmond South Post Office was built on a small triangular...
Happening at Wharf Street Queenscliff
Escape for a short while into Queenscliff's fascinating past The ship wrecks, the rescues and lifeboat, and the Sea Pilots who continue to bring ships safely through the Rip and into Port You...
Happening at Point Cook Road Point Cook
The RAAF Museum is housed at Point Cook, the birthplace of the Australian Flying Corps and the Royal Australian Air Force, tells one of Australia's most important aviation stories, that of the second...
Happening at Melbourne
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Melbourne Rock 'n' Roll Museum We call it a Rock'n'Roll Museum, Molly calls it a Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, there has been a lot of talk, and finally we are getting...
Happening at 2 Booker Street Spotswood
'Get a Grasp of Science & Technology' at Scienceworks.. seriously good fun! Making learning about science a fun and interactive adventure. Push it, pull it, spin it, bang it. Through hands-on...
Happening at 82 Nelson Place Williamstown
The Maritime Museum has an impressive collection of artifacts, models and bells to showcase the stories of maritime history of the Port of Melbourne. Exhibitions include the First Fleet, prison...
Happening at 211 Latrobe Street Melbourne
Melbourne Central permanent state-of-the-art Shot Tower museum dedicated to the heritage listed 'Coops Shot Tower'. The Shot Tower Museum explores both the history of Melbourne and the...
Happening at 3 Bradshaw Street Ballarat
Relive the history and excitement of Victoria's goldrush days at Sovereign Hill, Australia's best outdoor museum Built on a 25 hectare (60 acre) site linked with the richest alluvial goldrush in...
Happening at 19 - 37 Garden Street, Wonthaggi
The State Coal Mine is an historic Gippsland attraction that fosters an understanding of Australia's cultural heritage. Take the family on a journey back in time at the State Coal Mine in...
Happening at Level 1, Shop 17, Wharf Street Docklands
The Australian Cartoon Gallery & Museum's primary mission is to develop a comprehensive research collection documenting Australian printed cartoon art, to organise the materials, and to provide...
Happening at 131-133 Napier Street, St Arnaud
The Bible Museum has a collection of over 1,000 Bibles, with original printings from the early 17th century onwards, and facsimiles of Bibles from the 9th century onwards. It includes miniature...
Happening at 92 Burke Road Malvern
The former home and artists' studio of sculptor Karl Duldig (1902-1986) and his wife, artist and inventor Slawa Duldig n©e Horowitz (c1902-1975). The Duldig Studio museum and sculpture garden is...
Happening at Wellington Parade East Melbourne
The Johnston Collection is the legacy of William Johnston, an antique dealer and collector who left his estate to the people of Victoria for their education and enjoyment. The collection ranges...
Happening at 70 Bailey Street Clunes
The Lee Medlyn Home of Bottles Collection consists of over six thousand old and historical bottles and other related objects. Dating from 1500 A.D. to present time the bottles cover all types of...
Happening at 77 Main St Gembrook
The Motorist is a vintage motoring museum situated in the main street in Gembrook. It has a small and detailed private collection of vintage and classic cars including a bus on display. The...
Happening at 69 Bourke Street Melbourne
Do you have items that should be preserved? If you have information or mementos that record how your family was involved with The Salvation Army, please consider how they can be preserved by...
Happening at 816 Mount Macedon Road, Mount Macedon
The Stokes Collection is regarded by many antique experts as the greatest private collection in the southern hemisphere. This remarkable collection represents the life-long passion of Cyril...
Happening at 74 Waterloo Road Trafalgar
The Trafalgar Holden Museum is located in Waterloo Road, Trafalgar, in beautiful Gippsland, Victoria. We are dedicated to telling the full story of Holden in Australia. Displays include motor...
Happening at 2415C Warburton Highway, Yarra Junction
Upper Yarra Museum cares for the heritage and collections from the Upper Yarra. Community Museum run by Volunteers All proceeds used to maintain the collection and the Heritage site UPPER...
Happening at 637 Flinders Street, Melbourne
Explore Melbourne and Victoria's social and cultural history through a unique collection of artefacts, displays and documents. The Victoria Police Museum reflects the work of the Victorian police...
Happening at Victorian Accredited Museums Melbourne
AMaGA Victoria supports, promotes and advocates for the Australia's museum and gallery sector. The Museum Accreditation Program (MAP) provides a framework to help Victorian museums build...
Happening at Victorian Transport & Military Museums Melbourne
Victorian Transport & Military Museums Auto and Car Museums Ford Discovery Centre - www.forddiscovery.com.au (closing July 2012) Fox Classic Car Collection - www.foxcollection.org National...
Happening at 119 Durham Road, Sunshine
Stories. History. Inspiration. Australia's first Vietnamese cultural centre and museum in Sunshine has been given to go-ahead. Based on our current project plan, and subject to Brimbank...
Happening at 5 Electra Street, Williamstown
Immerse yourself in the history of Williamstown by visiting the Museum. The collection highlights this historical seaport's maritime history, and also includes furniture, costumes, sporting...
Happening at 35-37 Castella Street Lilydale
The multi-award winning Yarra Ranges Regional Museum features stunning architectural design set in tranquil surrounds, the museum features exhibition spaces, programs for all ages and abilities, a...
Happening at Yan Yean Rd Yarrambat
A development of the Yarrambat Historical Society the Museum contains an operating historic gold-mine battery; an historic woolshed, approximately 150 years old and formerly a Methodist church; and...
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