Green thumbs of all ages will bee-inspired at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show presented by Scotts Osmocote as critters and creativity make for the ultimate family day out from Wednesday 29th March through to Sunday 2nd April 2023.

This autumn, the Beyond Blue Charity Zone will be the perfect place to reignite little minds with an exciting new program of interactive activities. Each morning, Wayapa Wuurrk will host Indigenous yoga and earth connection sessions alongside Bushfood classes by CERES. Giant snakes and ladders, life-sized Jenga and football target games will provide hours of fun with drawing and colouring activities in the Arts Marquee for mini Monets.

The Melbourne Now - Opening Weekend will be held at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia to celebrate the return of Melbourne Now. Bold in scope and scale, the exhibition highlights the extraordinary work of more than 200 Victorian-based artists, designers, studios and firms whose practices are shaping the cultural landscape of Melbourne and Victoria.

Kids will enjoy Imaginator’s immersive play experience and let imagination and technology collide to create stunning audio-visual play experiences. The experience has sounds, scents and lights activate in response to your movement as you walk, slide and glide through the dreamlike landscapes. Enjoy the different installations at your own pace.

Obang is a performative installation space designed for babies aged 6 to 18 months along with their caregivers, and is inspired by the traditional Korean concept of Obang. In this work, Obang refers to five primary colours and explores the spatial meaning of home.

KaBloom Festival of Flowers 2023 will unleash its magic these upcoming Easter Holidays. You will be dazzled by fantastical flower sprites performing their astounding circus in the glorious fields of enchanting colour. Tesselaar Flower Farm comes alive with KaBloom!

Discover a kaleidoscope of colour with millions of blooms to delight your senses. Enjoy performances, food, circus, craft workshops that run daily through the school holidays.

Top Designs 2023 at the Melbourne Museum celebrates the innovation of Victoria’s emerging designers. The exhibition highlights a selection of exceptional VCE and VET students from 2022 as part of the VCE Season of Excellence.

The second edition of the ground-breaking exhibition Melbourne Now will be presented at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia from March 2023. Bold in scope and scale, the exhibition highlights the extraordinary work of more than 200 Victorian-based artists, designers, studios and firms whose practices are shaping the cultural landscape of Melbourne and Victoria.

Gain insight into the passions and concerns of young artists from schools across Victoria in the annual Top Arts exhibition. Top Arts 2023 showcases extraordinary works of art and folios that achieved outstanding results in VCE Art or VCE Studio Arts 2022.

Presented with Moomba Festival with Polyglot.

Welcome to a joyful world of wonder and imagination. Explore a buzzing, humming hive of activity, as three human-sized bees busy themselves in the creation of a community.

Presented with Moomba Festival and artist Briony Barr

Imagine a drawing that has become bored of paper and wandered off the page in search of new adventure…Welcome to Tape It! Over three days of the Moomba Festival, we will be experimenting with expanded, collaborative drawing, using colourful tape to draw on the floor and walls of ArtPlay!

The Red Centre’s incredible Parrtjima - A Festival in Light, shares a taste of its extraordinary interactive installations outside of the Northern Territory at Federation Square this weekend Friday 10th March to Saturday 11th March 8pn to 11pm.

Parrtjima, the only authentic Aboriginal light festival of its kind in the world, will present the much-loved Grounded installation.

Moomba Festival is back this year for 5 days of family fun in Melbourne!

Set on the banks of Melbourne's Yarra River, Moomba is an annual free festival held over the Labour Day long weekend in March.

Shackleton: The Greatest Story of Survival - The IMAX Experience reveals the true story of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and the crew of the Endurance, told by the only man ever to have repeated their incredible feat - explorer and adventurer Tim Jarvis. Following in the beset crew’s footsteps, Tim reveals the enduring legacy of Shackleton's crisis leadership in the face of impossible odds - a lesson more relevant to us now than ever before. Ages 8+.

Create characters inspired by the city in a storytelling workshop with artists Jessica Wilson and Gijong Yoo. This bilingual workshop highlights children’s understandings of urban places that are so often the domain of adults. Ages 7 to 11.

19 years after Harry, Ron and Hermione saved the Wizarding World.

They’re joined by a brand-new generation of witches and wizards who are about to begin their journey. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child must leave Australia on July 9.

Submerged is an interactive digital experience, marking the aquarium’s first foray into the evolving art form and captivating guests with its vibrance and hyperrealism.

Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of MARY POPPINS plays at Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne from 29 January 2023 for a strictly limited season.

Adapted from the beloved stories by PL Travers and the original film; the magical tale of the world’s favourite Nanny comes to life on stage in a spectacular and unforgettable production.

Celebrating the legacy of one of the late twentieth century’s most acclaimed fashion designers, Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse is the first partnership between the Los Angeles Museum of Art (LACMA) and the NGV.

Join Boneo Discovery Park for Dino Sand Sculpting this Summer for an incredible prehistoric journey through sand. See the worlds best sand sculptors craft Australian dinosaurs that sit along the stunning lakeside. Flanked by Animatronic dinosaurs this is a full sensory experience for both the young and old.

Sand sculpting entry also gives you access to 27 acres of wetlands, mazes, gardens and giant games. The jumping castle will help the. kids burn off some energy while you relax with a coffee or glass of wine on the lakeside deck.

Julian Opie, one of Britain’s leading contemporary artists is back this Summer at the National Gallery of Victoria from the 3rd Dec '22 to 10th Apr '23 after so much love in 2018!

Rippon Lea Estate will be bringing farm life back to the gardens by hosting a 3D Shaun the Sheep: Hide & Sheep!

The Summer Night Market is back at Queen Vic Market on Wednesday nights from 23 November to 15 March (excluding 21 and 28 December).

An evocative reimagining of The Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens, Adam Newman and Kelvin Tsang’s Temple of Boom is the NGV Architecture Commission for 2022, an annual series that invites Australian architects to create a work of site-specific, ephemeral architecture for the NGV Garden.

Set in the long-abandoned third-floor wing of Flinders Street Station, Time is a nostalgic love letter to mid-century Melbourne and a tribute to one of the city’s great icons. Created and developed across the past three years, this truly exceptional site-specific experience is Rone’s most ambitious project to date.

Gather the crew and get ready for an epic interactive light adventure!

Illuminate is a brand new exhibition exploring the science behind the fastest traveller in the universe – light. Ignite the senses and learn through hands-on interactive play. What is light, what can we do with it and how do we see?