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Scienceworks Guided Highlights Tour
Highlights
- Explore the wonders of Scienceworks, where curiosity meets innovation in Victoria’s leading science and technology museum.
- Encounter the world’s oldest surviving first-generation electronic computer, showcasing a remarkable leap in technological history.
- Marvel at the 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite, a tangible link to the cosmos that sparks imagination and wonder.
- Join a knowledgeable guide for an engaging tour, uncovering treasures beneath the grand arc of the West Gate Bridge.
Scienceworks is bursting with things to challenge curious minds of all ages.
Victoria’s leading science and technology museum houses a myriad of marvels, with gigantic machines, an electrifying Lightening Theatre, the century-old Pumping Station and Melbourne Planetarium – all under the grand arc of the West Gate Bridge.
On this tour, you’ll explore the precinct with your knowledgeable guide and encounter some of Scienceworks’ treasures including the world’s oldest surviving first-generation electronic computer, the da Vinci Surgical System (the first ever used in Australia), a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite, and so much more.
Tour details
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Available from 8 August 2024 to 1 August 2026
Features
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Actively welcomes people with access needs.
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Museums Victoria Tours
Museums Victoria is the largest museum organisation in the southern hemisphere, home to three museums – Melbourne Museum, Immigration Museum and Scienceworks – as well as IMAX Melbourne, a leading museum-based research institute and the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Royal Exhibition Building.
Discover the wonder of Museums Victoria’s extensive collection of science, natural history and social history artifacts with a knowledgeable museum guide as they share the history and stories that have shaped Victoria into the vibrant place it is today.
Accreditations
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Quality Tourism Accreditation
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Sustainable Tourism Accreditation by ATIC
Memberships
- Victoria Tourism Industry Council
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