🎡 Scienceworks and Melbourne Planetarium

Spotswood, Victoria

🕐 Daily 10am to 4:30pm. Book tickets online before you go

💰 Kids under 16 free. Adult museum entry $15 (council listing). Planetarium and Lightning Room shows are booked separately

📍 2 Booker Street, Spotswood VIC 3015

☕ Nearest coffee: 780m away

🚻 Nearest public toilet: 980m away

Hands-on science in an old pumping station, with big historic machines, the Lightning Room and the Melbourne Planetarium. Ground Up is an enclosed building play space for babies to five year olds.

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