
Docklands Christmas Maze - Docklands
Santa has lost his elves! Can you help find them? Make your way through this giant present-themed maze with fun interactive games for a chance to win one of four $500 The District Docklands vouchers.
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Santa has lost his elves! Can you help find them? Make your way through this giant present-themed maze with fun interactive games for a chance to win one of four $500 The District Docklands vouchers.
Santa and his elves are hard at work in his Melbourne workshop, making toys and presents for the big day. It’s a busy time of year and there’s lots of tools and machinery to help Santa get ready. Say hello to the big man and pose for a photo from a socially safe distance.
Let it glow! Watch stunning projections take over buildings on Flinders Street, opposite Fed Square.
The dazzling display features six colourful themes, including Christmas candy, festive decorations, winter wonderland, native flora and more, lighting up facades including the iconic Forum Theatre.
The inaugural Good Food & Wine Show Christmas Market will be serving up an array of tasty festive treats and foodie delights.
Make merry at Melbourne’s Christmas wonderland.
Christmas comes to life at Christmas Square with festive decorations aplenty and the city’s iconic 16-metre light-up tree. Pop in to visit the big man himself at Santa’s Workshop from 26 November.
Let it glow! The city’s famous Christmas projections are back at Melbourne Town Hall with four gorgeous colourful treatments lighting up the building's iconic facade. Make it a night to remember and visit the projections at Flinders Street too.
Santa has a new way of getting around Melbourne! See his magical floating sleigh and enchanted dolphins (yes, the reindeer have been given some time off) light up the Birrarung – Yarra River.
Created by the quirky minds at Melbourne creative studio A Blanck Canvas, the 27-metre installation will delight Northbank shoppers and diners.
This is a Christmas Festival event, presented by City of Melbourne with support from the Victorian Government. Free. More info here.
Swing on a giant illuminated bell or dance up a storm on the light-up dancefloor as a giant kids playground pops up in Southbank this festive season. Play with an interactive canopy of flower petals, or conduct your own Lightphonic orchestra in a special installation on the red stairs from 15 to 24 December.
Wander the streets of Melbourne and feel the festive cheer as the city comes alive with Christmas decorations. Some of our favourites include the Instagram-worthy Giant Reindeer in Docklands, the Christmas Star on Evan Walker Bridge and the popular Nutcracker soldiers standing guard across the city.
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.
All aboard! The Us Bus is coming to ArtPlay with its destination set for a realm where you can let your curiosity and imagination run wild.
There is a big tangle going on at ArtPlay and we need a whole lot of babies to help stretch it out. Come and stretch, wind, wobble, sing, and play in this big tangle of fun.
There is a big tangle going on at ArtPlay and we need a whole lot of babies to help stretch it out. Come and stretch, wind, wobble, sing, and play in this big tangle of fun.
The Myer Christmas Windows have been synonymous with the Australian Christmas tradition since 1956. This year the display celebrates Disney’s 100th anniversary. Open daily from 7.30am to midnight until 6 January.
On level 6, walk though the iconic Disney 100 maze showcasing some of your iconic favourite characters from The Walt Disney Company. Between 11am and 3pm, families can head up to level 7 to create their very own Mickey Mouse ears to take home with them.
Direct from London’s West End, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat premiers at Melbourne’s Regent Theatre this November. Next up, Sydney’s Capitol Theatre from February 2023.
Winner of five Tony Awards®, the smash-hit Old Vic production of Charles Dickens’ immortal classic A Christmas Carol starring David Wenham, comes to Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre, this holiday season.
From 11 - 27 November 2022, Neighbourhood will celebrate place, community and humanity in Melbourne’s West with 18 days of heartfelt performance, exhibitions and experiences.
The Melbourne Night Noodle Markets are back with Lion & Dragon Dancers, Citi Picnic Area, The Night Poodle Markets Runway, drinks for adults and of course lots of delicious food!
Let’s squeeze, throw and roll in this sensory play painting workshop. If a ball goes up, will it come down? What if I roll it round and round?
Let’s squeeze, throw and roll in this sensory play painting workshop. If a ball goes up, will it come down? What if I roll it round and round?
The Myer Christmas Windows have been synonymous with the Australian Christmas tradition since 1956. This year the display celebrates Disney’s 100th anniversary.
The Walt Disney Company’s renowned classics have been brought to life in the 67th year of Myer’s iconic Christmas Windows, bringing nostalgia and celebration to the Myer Bourke Street flagship.
The 2022 Myer Christmas Windows unveiling is an unmissable Christmas event this year! Enjoy special performances from Cody Simpson and the Australian Girls’ Choir – even Santa himself will be there!
ArtPlay Backyard is all about free play. Children and families will be gently guided by the artists, theme and materials to inspire child-led creativity.
Groovy Tunes is back! Groove with your little one to Ghanaian tunes and rhythms. Join master drummer and multi-instrumentalist Kofi Kunkpe in a joyful music and movement workshop.
Holidaying from the Island of Sodor, everybody’s favourite blue tank engine, his buddy James, Driver Dan and Shunter Charlie are pulling into Puffing Billy Railway for three very special weekends of Day Out With Thomas in November.
Groovy Tunes is back! Groove with your little one to Ghanaian tunes and rhythms. Join master drummer and multi-instrumentalist Kofi Kunkpe in a joyful music and movement workshop.
Groovy Tunes is back! Groove with your little one to Ghanaian tunes and rhythms. Join master drummer and multi-instrumentalist Kofi Kunkpe in a joyful music and movement workshop.
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.
Unique, revealing, and inspiring, Monet & Friends Alive is a breathtaking immersive experience, showcasing the most influential and fascinating period in modern art - Impressionism.