Events 2024
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TAKEOVER: Evolution
Friday 6 December
TAKEOVER is back—a free, after-hours event exclusively for under-18s.
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Summer Swap: Clothes Swap Event
Saturday 23 November 2024
Learn how to run a successful swap, take climate action and level up your wardrobe ready for summer!
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School Holidays: Parachute Play with Teddy
Tuesday 8 October | Thursday 10 October 2024
Enjoy an active outdoor 45-minute Parachute Play session filled with exciting movement songs and games
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School Holidays: STEAM and Makers - Marbling and Marble Painting
Friday 4 October | Friday 11 October 2024
Join us for a fun and creative marbling and marble painting activity, where you'll explore vibrant colours and create unique, one-of-a-kind artworks.
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School Holidays: Excellent Engineers - Marble Run and Marble Mazes
Wednesday 2 October | Friday 11 October 2024
Join us to design, build, and test your own marble tracks and mazes while exploring the fun of engineering and physics!
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School Holidays: Science Shows – Planet Earth
Tuesday 1 October | Thursday 3 October | Tuesday 8 October | Thursday 10 October 2024
Museum scientist Catherine will be talking about earthquakes, volcanoes and the extinction of the dinosaurs in the ever-popular free science shows these holidays.
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An Evening with Hugh Mackay: The Way We Are
Tuesday 3 September 2024
Join Hugh Mackay Australia's leading social psychologist to discuss his new book, The Way We Are: Lessons from a lifetime of listening.
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Women In Science: What do Theoretical Physicists do?
Thursday 22 August 2024
Join us this Science Week for our talk with Professor Susan Coppersmith a Scientia Professor and the Head of the School of Physics at UNSW Sydney.
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School Holidays: Low Sensory Wayapa Wuurk
Friday 12 July 2024
This NAIDOC Week join health practitioner and proud Darkinjung woman Sarah Corrigan from Rainbow Crow Cultural Collective for a special inclusive Wayapa program for neurodivergent people and their...
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InsectMANIA! School Holiday Science Shows
Tuesday 9 July | Thursday 11 July | Saturday 13 July 2024
These school holidays we are going crazy for insects! We will MEET them and EAT* them! Learn about bee vomit and why pineapples are trying to kill you. Play Insect Heads and Tails for prizes. Don...
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NM:PM Go Rainbow Your Way for IDAHOBIT
Friday 17 May 2024
Party after dark at Newcastle Museum to celebrate IDAHOBIT and LGBTQIA+ inclusion!
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Earth Day: Planet vs Plastic
Monday 22 April 2024
Come celebrate Earth Day 2024 at Newcastle Museum. This fun school holiday event aims to honour and celebrate our planet on this extraordinary day!
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KABOOM! Explosive Science Show
Friday 22 March | Saturday 23 March | Sunday 24 March 2024
The maddest of mad scientists, Magnus Danger Magnus, is headed to Newcastle for the first time with a brand new, all ages electromagnetic extravaganza in KABOOM!
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Story Explorers
First Wednesday of each month
Join us for stories and adventures on the first Wednesday of each month, during school terms, exploring different items in the Museum collection.
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Brush Bot Maker Workshop with the T3 Alliance
Tuesday 23 January 2024
Unleash your inner inventor at the Brush Bot Maker Workshop!
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Design Thinking with the T3 Alliance
Tuesday 23 January 2024
Solving real problems in real communities. T3 Alliance Jasmine Johnson will have you practice the steps to be successful in managing your community problem-solving projects.
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Cyber Security with the T3 Alliance
Tuesday 23 January 2024
How Cyber Secure ARE you? Bring your device and we will explore how to keep ourselves safe by the T3 Alliance (MakeIT Secure) Sam Bourgeois.
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Destination Moon show by Fizzics Education
Tuesday 23 January 2024
Discover the science required to reach the Moon and the space programs that made it all happen at the Destination Moon show by Fizzics Education.
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Badge Making Workshop
Monday 22 January 2024
Create your style and make great gifts at our badge making workshop these summer holidays.
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Starr's Planetarium at Newcastle Museum: Aboriginal Stories in the Stars
Thursday 18 January | Friday 19 January 2024
Explore the universe with Starr’s Planetarium, and be immersed in a stunning 360° 4K movie.
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CodeKids: International Space Station Scratch Coding Workshop
Thursday 11 January 2024
Celebrate Newcastle Museum's Australia in Space exhibition in a digital way! This is a coding workshop using Scratch coding for 8-12 year olds. Devices are provided, and no Scratch experience is...
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Gimme Some SPACE! Free Science Shows
Tuesday 9 January | Tuesday 16 January | Wednesday 17 January | Wednesday 24 January | Thursday 25 January 2024
Catherine is talking all things SPACE these holidays to celebrate Newcastle Museum's summer blockbuster exhibition Australia in Space.
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