YAM: July

SPECIAL EVENT
Night at the Museum: RELICS Adventure

YAM comes alive after dark for an epic night of discovery and creativity! Work solo, as a team or compete with friends, to complete quests, solve challenges and collect stamps throughout the museum and determine who will be crowned the ultimate explorer! Explore the exhibitions RELICS, Index Act and Yaamanga (Around here), take part in activities including adult and family scavenger hunts, creative builds and immersive play, hands-on art-making, stop motion animation, and performances, plus dress-ups and a photo booth.

The YAM Bar will be open with cocktails, craft beer and sodas plus Peach & Wolf Café are serving toasties, soups, hot chocolate and cinnamon scrolls. Free event with tickets to RELICS, food + drinks purchased separately.

EXHIBITIONS

RELICS: A New World Rises, Until 19 July

Set in the year 2130, RELICS invites visitors into a posthuman world where discarded everyday objects have been transformed into intricate LEGO® civilisations. Created by LEGO® Masters winners Jackson Harvey and Alex Towler, the exhibition blends storytelling, sustainability and playful discovery, offering wonder for all ages. Discover intricate LEGO® brick civilisations thriving inside treasured objects from our past: a vintage refrigerator becomes a cryogenic health resort, and a Volkswagen Beetle houses an energy revolution, each with hundreds of hidden stories waiting to be uncovered. Collect your scavenger hunt for children or adults on arrival and explore the exhibition at your own pace then head to the hands-on build zone in the RELICS Play Space.

RELICS is a special ticketed exhibition. See the website for ticket prices and session times.

Nikky Morgan Smith: Index Act 2 July – 2 August

Index Act considers drawing as an embodied practice connected to lived experience. Combining performance-based photography, mark-making, and mixed media, Nikky Morgan-Smith presents a series of multi-layered compositions exploring linear time, memory, and physical existence.

Exhibition Opening: Thur 2 July, 5.30pm – 7pm

Live Drawing Performance: Friday 10 July, 5pm – 7pm

SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAM

Winter Wonders:
Expressive Painting with Kelly Joy 
Step into a world of cool colours, cosy creativity, and winter inspired imagination in this fun and expressive painting workshop.
Wed 8 July, $30 | Ages 6 – 10 year olds 

Upcycled Sewing Workshop with Amanda Fairbanks
Turn pre-loved fabrics into a funky handmade item or bag.
Wed 15 July, $30, Ages 10 – 16 year olds

STEAM Challenge: Creative Makers Lab
Take part in a STEAM workshop exploring creative making, experimentation and problem-solving.
Thur 16 July, $10, Ages 9 – 14 year olds 

Drop-in RELICS Play Space
Build, imagine and create in a free, drop-in LEGO® building zone where you become part of the exhibition!
FREE – drop-in, no bookings required, all ages

Drop-in RELICS Family Challenges
Unleash your imagination and repurpose an everyday object into something totally new for a mini-figure community.
FREE – drop-in, no bookings required, all ages

AFTER SCHOOL ART CLASSES

CREATIVE LAB: Experimental Art and Design
A hands-on afterschool program that brings together science, technology, engineering and maths through experimental art processes and techniques (STEAM). Through creative making, participants will experiment with simple materials and reimagined finds, exploring movement, light and energy to create exciting, contemporary artworks. An 8-week course starting 28 July.
Tuesdays, 4pm – 5.30pm. $100 including all materials. For ages 9–13.

Studio Kids @ YAM
This children’s art program offers a fun and engaging exploration of creativity through a range of hands-on activities. Young artists will capture movement through line and colour, experiment with mixed media collage, explore ideas of place, play with shadows, develop expressive mark making, and create artworks inspired by land and sky. An 8-week course starting 29 July.
Wednesdays 4pm – 5pm. $100 including all materials. For ages 8-12 years.

FREE WORKSHOP

Take a Moment in June: Wed 29 July
Take a creative pause in the middle of your busy week on Wednesday 29 July from 12 – 1.30pm. This FREE creative wellbeing program invites you to slow down, recharge, and reconnect through art. Experience a guided exhibition tour and hands-on creative session designed to spark inspiration and nurture mindfulness.

For general visitor information and exhibition details, visit: yamcoffs.com.au
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