Experience Centre

Puzzle Mania
2025-05-17 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-06-14 11:00 - 13:00 (Australia/Brisbane) | Experience Centre, 1/151 Elizabeth Street, Brisbane, Queensland, 4000, Australia
Settle down in a quiet corner of the Experience Centre and bring our train stations to life by tackling a range of jigsaw puzzles based on the designs of the stations. There are puzzles for all ages.
Recommended for ages 5+, caregiver participation encouraged.

Sunday 24 August, 11am to 1pm

Botanical Brilliance
2025-05-18 11:00 - 13:00
Just like the Green Spine along Albert Street brings together nature and the city, come along and combine the endless possibilities of Lego with the beauty of nature, to create colourful floral bouquets.
Choose from a range of new and mesmerising Lego sets to get your creativity blossoming.
Suitable for ages 8+

Saturday 26 April, 11am to 1pm
Sunday 18 May, 11am to 1pm

Bottle cap creations
2025-05-24 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-06-08 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-06-21 11:00 - 13:00
From the depths of the tunnels to the tops of the stations, there are so many parts to the Cross River Rail project. Choose your favourite part of the project and recreate it with bottle caps. Maybe you will choose an enormous tunnel boring machine, a delicate piece of archaeology, or even a beautiful flower that will grow in a garden outside a new train station.
This is a drop-in session, no bookings are required. Recommended for ages 5+, adult supervision encouraged.

Sunday 8 June, 11am to 1pm
Saturday 21 June, 11am to 1pm

Let’s make origami
2025-05-25 11:00 - 13:00
Learn how to take a flat sheet of paper and through the magic of origami, create a 3D object like a building or a vehicle. Then think like a city planner to display your creations on a large map of the Brisbane CBD.
This is a drop-in session, no bookings are required. Recommended for ages 5+, adult supervision required.

Saturday 10 May, 11am to 1pm
Sunday 25 May, 11am to 1pm

Seed mosaics
2025-05-31 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-07-02 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-07-06 11:00 - 13:00
Most of the plants in the Green Spine along Albert Street, from the tallest trees to the smallest shrubs, will have grown from seeds. Explore the importance of trees and take inspiration from different types of seeds to create a mosaic masterpiece.
Recommended for ages 5+, caregiver participation encouraged.

Saturday 13 September, 11am to 1pm

Lego City Build
2025-06-01 11:00 - 13:00
Build your own future development! Become an urban planner and design the new Albert Street precinct. From streets, transport, trees and buildings of different shapes and sizes, how will you bring your city to life using only Lego.
Recommended for ages 5+, caregiver participation encouraged.
This is a drop in session.

Sunday 1 June, 11am to 1pm

Magical Kaleidoscopes
2025-06-07 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-06-22 11:00 - 13:00
Create your own kaleidoscope using simple materials like cardboard tubes, mirrors, and colourful beads, and be dazzled by the magic of patterns, reflections and symmetry.
This is a drop-in session, no bookings are required. Recommended for ages 5+, adult supervision required.

Sunday 3 August, 11am to 1pm
Sunday 23 August, 11am to 1pm

Tessellations
2025-06-15 11:00 - 13:00
Patterns are everywhere, in nature, art, engineering and in the design of our station buildings. Learn how to take a simple square and transform it into a crazy shaped template to create a perfect pattern.
This is a drop-in session, no bookings are required. Recommended for ages 5+, adult supervision encouraged.

Sunday 15 June, 11am to 1pm

Macrame Madness
2025-06-30 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-06-30 13:00 - 14:00
The Green Spine along Albert Street will be a tree-lined, sub-tropical public plaza. Bring the benefits of greenery to your own home by creating a macrame potholder.
Recommended for ages 8+, caregiver participation encouraged.
Booking required via the links below:

Monday 30 June, 11am – 12pm
Monday 30 June, 1pm – 2pm
Saturday 12 July, 11am – 12pm
Saturday 12 July, 11am – 12pm

Autonomous Rail challenge
2025-07-01 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-07-01 12:30 - 13:30
Learn how to control sensors, write simple code and explore how AI and machine learning help robots make decisions. Then put all your new skills to use to build and control an autonomous rover to complete a simulated rail logistics challenge.
Recommended for ages 6 to 16 with caregiver participation encouraged.
Booking required via the links below:

Tuesday 1 July, 11am – 12pm
Tuesday 1 July, 12:30pm – 1:30pm

Make a model train station
2025-07-03 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-07-03 12:30 - 13:30
Queensland has its own special style of architecture and so do the new Cross River Rail train stations. You can be an architect and design a train station then build a model of it.
Recommended for ages 5+, adult supervision encouraged.
Booking required via the links below:

Thursday 3 July, 11am – 12pm
Thursday 3 July, 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Friday 11 July, 11am – 12pm
Friday 11 July, 12:30pm – 1:30pm

You can book your tickets here.

Coding Ozobots
2025-07-04 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-07-04 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-07-10 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-07-10 13:00 - 14:00
Come along to learn the basics of coding with the world’s cutest robots! Starting with pre-programed moves, find out how the Ozobots use sensors similar to Cross River Rail’s new signalling technology, and then create your own code and test it on an Ozobot.
Recommended for ages 8+ with caregiver participation encouraged.
Booking required via the links below:

Friday 4 July, 11am – 12pm
Friday 4 July, 1pm – 2pm
Thursday 10 July, 11am – 12pm
Thursday 10 July, 1pm – 2pm

Lego Build & Create
2025-07-05 11:00 - 13:00
Build your own future development! Become an urban planner and design the new Albert Street precinct. From streets, transport, trees and buildings of different shapes and sizes, how will you bring your city to life using only Lego.
Recommended for ages 5+, caregiver participation encouraged.
This is a drop in session.

Saturday 9 August, 11am to 1pm
Saturday 30 August, 11am to 1pm

Investigator Manual
2025-07-07 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-07-07 13:00 - 14:00
Become a tunnelling expert! Go on a discovery challenge in the Experience Centre tracking down answers to questions about the engineering marvel of tunnelling.
Recommended for ages 8+ with caregiver participation encouraged.

Monday 7 July, 11am to 12pm
Monday 7 July, 1pm to 2pm

Crazy Critters
2025-07-08 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-07-08 13:00 - 14:00
Come on a treasure hunt to find the crazy critters hidden in one of the station artworks and create your own artwork full of crazy critters.
Bookings are not required but this is a structured activity so please arrive ready for the start time.
Recommended for ages 5+, caregiver participation encouraged.

Tuesday 8 July, 11am to 12pm
Tuesday 8 July, 1pm to 2pm

Quiet Time Lego Build & Create
2025-07-09 11:00 - 13:00
During the Quiet Time Lego Challenge, build your own future development by becoming a junior urban planner and design a new precinct!
Recommended for all ages. Sensory stimulation in the Experience Centre is minimised during Quiet time Lego.

Wednesday 9 July, 11 am to 1 pm
