Carnival of Art & Thrills
Fri 31 Oct – Mon 3 Nov, from 6pm to close.
This Halloween and Cup Day long weekend, dive into the Museum of Desire for daring after-dark adventures you won’t forget.
Experience Shibari Rope Tying with Barefoot Juliette, watch Maya Irving use her entire naked body as a paintbrush to create a giant live masterpiece, join Top Secret Life Drawing where performers reveal all to tempt you to pick up a pencil, and enjoy cheeky magic and physical comedy with Foxy Moron.
The spectacle of art, desire, and performance runs all weekend, with special opening hours for Monday and Tuesday now added. Live performances run from 6 PM until close, Fri 31 Oct – Mon 3 Nov, featuring different artists each day. Book early—these sessions sell out fast!
✏️ Top Secret Life Drawing (Fri 31 Oct)
Step into Halloween at MOD for a spooky, seductive evening. The museum will be taken over by a bewitching array of life drawing performers. Will you resist their invitation to pick up a pencil?
Join the Top Secret Life Drawing team for a hair-raising night where Halloween performers reveal all for art.
Wear a sexy Halloween costume and claim your lucky dip prize!
🎭 Performance Art, Magic and Physical Comedy (Sat 1 & Mon 3 Nov)
Saturday and Monday evening at MOD offers a tantalising mix of live performance magic and art creation with Maya Irving and the cheeky Foxy Moron (Rhani Huszar).
Watch Maya paint a giant canvas using her entire body. Then get up close for a playful, interactive encounter with Foxy Moron, one of Australia’s most captivating magic and physical comedy performers.
🔗 Shibari Art with Barefoot Juliette (Sun 2 Nov)
Barefoot Juliette brings her mesmerizing and edgy Shibari performance, blending pleasure and pain in a thrilling rope art experience.
Hotly requested since MOD’s opening, this night promises to captivate all Shibari art enthusiasts. Join us live at Museum of Desire for an unforgettable performance.
User reviews
- Fantastic experience! Staff were lovely too!
- Was amazing. Looking forward to visiting again with each new addition
- I came with my partner. Lots of fun.
- Excellent museum celebrating sexuality, sensuality and the human form. Definitely recommend experiencing MOD
- Incredibly fresh and captivating with much needed topics and art forms surrounding love, sex and desire explored
- Really well thought out exhibition. Interactive erotica, exciting, inspiring & boundary testing without becoming poor taste. Great date night idea!
- I booked tickets to the Museum of Desire for my Fiancé's birthday and we had SUCH a fun day wondering through the space, playing and exploring yesterday. The MoD feels like such a beautiful celebration of sexuality and desire, done tastefully. We'd highly recommend it.
- Best hands on museum we have been too Very well done art and installations. Not there to shock but to entertain. And educate. Ball out room and photo frame Room was great fun. Then finish in Chill room lying down listening to stories was excellent
- It was a great exhibition. Very interesting and enjoyable to talk through
- The Museum of Desire was cheeky, informative and a lot of fun! Something cool and unique, would definitely recommend ❤️
- It was an amazing, fun, touchable, danceable and sensual experience. You will not regret! ❤️ I definitely recommend it.
- So much fun
- This was by far one of the most enjoyable days out I've had in Melbourne this year. Every room had something fun and exciting to interact with. If I wasn't laughing, I was immersed. I plan on attending again. I want all my friends to experience a fun, sex positive exhibition and I would highly recommend this to everyone seeking a rollercoaster ride of a day out.
- Absolutely amazing and a whole lot of fun!
- Great fun. Loved that the sessions weren’t overcrowded and you had space to enjoy. Would love a list of all the artists at the end and more items in the gift shop especially from the exhibiting artists.
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Museum Of Desire
The Museum of Desire, housed in a converted New York–style warehouse in Collingwood, blends immersive art with cutting-edge tech across 1,200+ square metres. Once a lighting factory, it's now a striki...
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