20 September to 5 October 2008
Let your imagination guide you to a world of school holiday adventures in the city!
Head to the city with a spring in your step these school holidays for loads of attractions and activities to keep the whole family entertained.
Learn to bake at the Queen Victoria Market’s kids’ and teens’ cooking classes or take part in the fun creative workshops including music, dance, art and sport at the Dream Festival.
Explore city streets and laneways and learn how the discovery of gold shaped Melbourne on the Melbourne Golden Mile Guided Walk. Step back in time and walk the road to the gallows in a 19th century prison or be arrested in a modern-day Police Station at the Old Melbourne Gaol. Find out how the great navigators used compasses to find their way around the unknown world at Cooks' Cottage.
The Melbourne City Baths School Holiday Program is packed with exciting activities and excursions for children aged six-to-12 years.
Come and enjoy the agricultural livestock competitions, entertainment, show-bags, carnival rides and more at the Royal Melbourne Show.
Use your own illustrations or computer animation to create stories about sensational sporting moments at the State Library.
The warmer weather means it’s almost cricket season. At the MILO in2CRICKET event at Federation Square kids and parents will enjoy meeting cricket ambassadors and activities.
Come and see the Melbourne Zoo through green-coloured glasses and learn more how zoo animals and gardens are ‘going green’ and what you can do at home to help.
Design your own family tree at the Immigration Museum. Using fragments of famous buildings, learn how the city’s skyline has changed through fun and challenging puzzles at City Museum at Old Treasury.
Celebrate the footy finals’ season with a tour of the MCG, then head to the National Sports Museum and see a multitude of sporting artefacts and interactive displays.
Paint and decorate your very own plaster art horse at Champions – Australian Racing Museum.
Enjoy daily shark-dive feeds, special school holiday presentations and art and craft activities at Melbourne Aquarium.
Learn about Indigenous Melbourne at the Melbourne Museum.
Be dazzled by the sky high views from Eureka Skydeck 88, or take in spectacular 360 views from the Melbourne Observation Deck.
Enjoy a range of fun-filled cinema programs at ACMI and don’t miss The Alpha Show of Hercules at Federation Square.