Celebrate the opening weekend of the Victoria the T. rex exhibition with mask making, scavenger hunts and dinosaur talks for kids – all free with your Melbourne Museum entry ticket.

Program:

• T. rex Masks - 11am TO 3pm Saturday & Sunday | Main Foyer | Included with Museum Entry | AGES 3 TO 12
  Celebrate the arrival of Victoria the T. rex at Melbourne Museum, the home of the dinosaurs and create your own 3-D T. rex mask. Fold your mask into shape, decorate it and then chomp, roar and stomp your way across the museum.

• Dinosaurs and Fossils pop-up - 11am TO 3pm Saturday & Sunday | Included with Museum Entry | AGES 2 TO 12
  Become a palaeontologist for the day! Go back in time to explore a range of different interpretative fossils with dinosaurs from Australia and around the world. 

• Museum Discovery | Dinosaur Stories - Saturday & Sunday | Meet in Main Foyer | Included with Museum Entry | Ages 6 TO 12
  Hosted by play and learning experts and our friends from the Museums Victoria Research Institute, come and meet a real dinosaur lover, ask all your roar-some questions and uncover new insights about your favourite dinosaurs!

  11am | Dinosaur Walk
  12pm | Triceratops
  1pm | T. rex
  2pm | Gandel Gondwana Garden

• 100 Tiny Dinos Scavenger Hunt and Competition - Saturday & Sunday | Meet in Main Foyer | Included with Museum Entry | All Ages

  It's time to din-O-seek. The tiny dinosaurs are on the loose at Melbourne Museum and you have to find them! Tiny T. rex's are hiding all over the Melbourne Museum and it's not going to be easy to find them all. You need patience and a keen eye for this prehistoric search to find all 100, especially the 11 dinosaurs sticker clues and the mysterious golden T. rex.

  Find the 11 dinosaur stickers and unscramble the letters to discover the unique code word for your chance to win. If you're lucky enough to locate the golden T. rex dinosaur, let the staff know where it is and if you're correct, they will give you a unique code word for your chance to win again.

  See prizes and 100 Tiny Dinos terms and conditions

• Dancing Dinosaurs - It's time for a Dino Disco! - 3 TO 4:30PM | Saturday & Sunday | Meet in Main Foyer | Included with Museum Entry | Ages 4 TO 10

  The Museum's guest DJ will whip up a dinosaur frenzy playing all the dinosaur song favourites mixed in with disco greats. Dress up and learn how to move like different dinosaurs, and build up your new moves for the dino disco

• Meet Baby Triceratops

  10:30AM, 11:30AM, 12:30PM & 1:30PM Saturday & Sunday | Meet in Main Foyer | Included with Museum Entry | Ages 2 TO 12

  We know that dinosaurs had babies, and they probably all hatched from an egg. But what did they look like or sound like?

Event details:

• Special Event: Saturday 29th AND Sunday 30th June 2024 from 10AM TO 4:30PM

• Important! Add Victoria the T. rex to your general entry ticket at checkout to see the best T. rex to visit Australia!

More info & tickets here.