The National Museum of Australia explores the land, nation and people of Australia. The Museum celebrates Australian social history in a unique way by revealing the stories of ordinary and extraordinary Australians, promoting the exploration of knowledge and ideas and providing a dynamic forum for discussion and reflection.

Questacon strives to promote greater understanding and awareness of science and technology within the community, while making that experience fun, interactive, and relevant.

• Exhibition> Picasso: masterpieces form the Musee National Picasso, Paris
• kids audio tour, tours for tots
• Sundays at 2:30 performances - Look at me: what do you see?
• School Holidays> Cubism school holiday workshops; Spanish music, dance and guitar. Also, Interactive Art, 'Look at me: what do you see?', Chinese New Year weekend

Explore their collections, exhibitions, natural science and indigenous cultures.Australian Museum events are designed to educate, entertain and excite. These exciting and ed ucational events are designed to cater for the whole family.

• Exhibitions > AQUA: A Journey into the World of Water, HMAS Vampire
• School Holidays > Celebrate Australia Day at ANNM - Free and discounted entry

• Zero Gravity Space Lab
• Cog's Workshop craft activities; Powerplay craft activities
• Tinytoreum, exhibition of tiny treasures
• The Magic Garden
• Help build Zoe's house

• Nicholson Museum> Collections: Classical, Near Eastern, Egyptian, Cypriot, European ... Exhibition - Classical Fantasies: Pompeii and the Art of South Italy...Mummie's Day May 8
• Mcleay Museum> Collections: Scientific instruments, natural history, historic photographs, ethnography... Exhibition - The Quest for Red: Trade and Experiment 
• University Art Gallery> Collections: European, Australian, Aboriginal and East Asian Art... Exhibition - Japan in Sydney: Professor Sadler and Modernism

• Queensland Museum is custodian of the state’s natural and cultural heritage, caring for more than a million items and specimens in collections that tell the changing story of Queensland.
• Exhibition> Awakening: Stories from the Torres Strait

Cobb + Co Museum is home to the National Carriage Collection, Australia's finest collection of horse-drawn vehicles, as well as a vast range of vehicles from the horse-drawn era.

• South Australian Maritime Museum
• Migration Museum
• National Motor Museum

The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery is a combined museum, art gallery and state herbarium.  It promotes interaction with, and understanding of, the cultural and natural world for present and future generations.

• Advance bookings required
• Northcote Kids Festival, Ear-O-Polis, MAKEDO Underwater World, ArtPlay Bubs
• E-Art Kids - blog

• For children aged 3 – 12 and their families.

Australian Centre for the Moving Image

• Exhibitions> Screen Worlds; Star Voyager: Exploring Space on Screen; Galactic Nights
• Film Screenings>Kids' Flicks: Santa's Apprentice, Muppets from Space, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, Zathura: A Space Adventure, and more...
• School Holidays> Kids in the Studio - Space Explorers: The Ultimate Space Adventure; Workshop - Make a Movie: Space is the Place

• Egypt 3D: Secrets of the Pharaohs...exploring the wonders of ancient Egypt...
• Born to Be Wild 3D...a tale of two amazing people who rescue and raise orang-utans and elephants...

Immigration Museum

• Belonging: Reflections on Place ... until 22 January 2012 
• Open for (more than) Business ... until 27 May 2012
• On Their Own: Britain's Child Migrants ... Until 6 May 2012
• Another Country ... exploring ideas of journey and memory
• School Holidays> Kids Fest: All Aboard! .. performances, activities and adventure trails celebrating leaving, journeys and arrivals. In-Flight, In-Habit, In-Transit. Kids Fest: All Aboard! 21-22 January

• Ancestral Power and Aesthetic: Arnhem Land Paintings, until 12 Feb 2012
• Our Children Our Future: Koorie children, until 5 Feb 2012
• Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre
• School Holidays> Tiddalik the Thirsty Frog, a Victorian Aboriginal creation story - performance and activities

• Exhibition> Explore-a-saurus, Perception Deception
• Planetarium Program> Tycho to the Moon, Spinning out, Our Living Climate, Escape from Andraxus, Tilt
• Lightning Room> Fire and Light 
• School Holidays> Dinosaur Detectives, Experiment Zone - From Bone to Stone, Shadow-saurus, Screening - Dinosaur Walk, Frozen Moments, Explore-a-saurus, Tilt

• Melbourne Zoo> The Endangered Challenge, Babboons...Lookout!
• Healesville Sanctuary> Breeding time, Project Platypus
• Werribee Open Range Zoo> Gorillas are Coming, An African Experience

• Antarctica Exhibit> Shipwreck Cove
• School Holidays> Sharks of Shipwreck Cove > daily interactive presentations, animal feeds and pirate-themed activities.

The National Gallery of Victoria has opened a new dedicated children’s gallery at Federation Square. NGV Kids corner is a space where children and their families can enjoy creative installations and activities designed just for them.

Explore the stories and culture of the local Aboriginal people, the State's unique flora, fauna and biodiversity, and the fascinating minerals, meteorites, megafauna and dinosaurs that once inhabited WA and prehistoric Earth.

The Museum also includes the Discovery Centre, which offers the chance to get hands-on with the Museum’s collections and learn about WA, our land and our people.

Scitech is a hands-on science centre with exhibitions, programs and services designed for people of all ages.

• Exhibitions> Measure Island, Climate Change, Explosive Science
• Planetarium> Journey to the Stars

• School Holidays>  All RSPCA school holiday activities in Perth involve animal interaction to help build children's confidence around animals and also to foster care and compassion for animals and in doing so encourage sensitivity to the needs and feelings of others, including animals. Some sessions involve craft for the younger children and hands-on animal care for older kids. For the first time, activities includes reptile interaction. Click here for the Shool Holidays program.