Experience Centre

Seed mosaics
2025-01-20 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-01-26 11:00 - 13:00 (Australia/Brisbane) | Experience Centre, 1/151 Elizabeth Street, Brisbane, Queensland, 4000, Australia
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

Bountiful Blooms
2025-01-21 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-01-21 12:30 - 13:30 | Experience Centre, 1/151 Elizabeth Street, Brisbane, Queensland, 4000, Australia
Imagine all the artworks in the world that feature flowers. Many of our station artworks have flowers – some are sculpted, some are printed and some are collaged. Come and explore what ideas and emotions can be expressed through flowers and create your own artwork with collage.
Recommended for ages 5+, caregiver participation encouraged.
Please note that session 1 is only for children who are deaf or hard of hearing or children of deaf adults. An Auslan interpreter will be in attendance.
Session 2 is open to all children. An Auslan interpreter will be in attendance.

Tuesday 21 January, 11am to 12pm
Tuesday 21 January, 12:30 pm to 1:30pm

Lego Build & Create
2025-01-22 11:00 - 13:00 | Experience Centre, 1/151 Elizabeth Street, Brisbane, Queensland, 4000, Australia
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 30 November, 11am to 1pm
Sunday 15 December, 11am to 1pm
Wednesday 8 January, 11am to 1pm
Monday 13 January, 11am to 1pm
Friday 17 January, 11am to 1pm
Wednesday 22 January, 11am to 1pm

Sculpting nature
2025-01-23 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-01-23 12:30 - 13:30 | Experience Centre, 1/151 Elizabeth Street, Brisbane, Queensland, 4000, Australia
Brisbane is a sub-tropical city, where unique native plants flourish. Many of these plants feature in the artworks at the new underground stations, including in several sculptures. Explore the texture of plants through the sense of touch and get inspired to create your own sculpture.
Recommended for ages 5+, caregiver participation encouraged.
This activity is suitable for children with low or no vision.

Thursday 10 April, 11am to 12pm
Thursday 10 April, 1pm to 2pm

Coding Ozobots
2025-01-24 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-01-24 13:00 - 14:00 | Experience Centre, 1/151 Elizabeth Street, Brisbane, Queensland, 4000, Australia
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

Magical Kaleidoscopes
2025-01-25 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-02-09 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-09 11:00 - 13:00 | Experience Centre, 1/151 Elizabeth Street, Brisbane, Queensland, 4000, Australia
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
2025-02-01 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-02-23 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-01 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-23 11:00 - 13:00 | Experience Centre, 1/151 Elizabeth Street, Brisbane, Queensland, 4000, Australia
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

Puzzle Mania
2025-02-08 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-08 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-30 11:00 - 13:00 | 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

Marvellous Maps
2025-02-15 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-15 11:00 - 13:00 | Experience Centre, 1/151 Elizabeth Street, Brisbane, Queensland, 4000, Australia
See if you can solve the one-metre-long Cross River Rail map jigsaw puzzle then make your mark on a giant map of Cross River Rail by drawing your house.
Recommended for ages 5+, caregiver participation encouraged.
This is a drop-in session.

Saturday 26 July, 11am to 1pm
Saturday 16 August, 11am to 1pm

Bottle cap creations
2025-02-16 11:00 - 14:00, 2025-03-16 11:00 - 13:00 | Experience Centre, 1/151 Elizabeth Street, Brisbane, Queensland, 4000, Australia
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

Lego City Build
2025-02-22 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-04-05 11:00 - 13:00 | Experience Centre, 1/151 Elizabeth Street, Brisbane, Queensland, 4000, Australia
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

Robots and Rocketry
2025-03-22 09:30 - 16:00, 2025-03-23 09:30 - 16:00 | Queensland Museum Rail Workshops, North Street, North Ipswich, Queensland, 4035, Australia
Join us at the Queensland Museum Rail Workshops in North Ipswich as part of World Science Festival Brisbane.
Come along to this FREE community event to learn how Cross River Rail is transforming travel. Visit our stand to code tiny robots to travel on the new train line, experience the underground stations through VR, and ask our experts all your Cross River Rail questions.
NOTE: This activity takes place at Queensland Museum Rail Workshops, North Ipswich.
Event details:

Date: Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 March
Time: 9:30 am – 4:00 pm
Location: Queensland Museum Rail Workshops

You can find out more on the World Science Festival Queensland website.
Photo credit: World Science Festival Queensland Image Credit Atmosphere Photography

Botanical Brilliance
2025-03-22 11:00 - 13:00 | Experience Centre, 1/151 Elizabeth Street, Brisbane, Queensland, 4000, Australia
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

Elevator Challenge
2025-03-29 11:00 - 13:00 | Experience Centre, 1/151 Elizabeth Street, Brisbane, Queensland, 4000, Australia
Our tunnels and some of our stations are a long way underground. We need to lift equipment down into and up out of our deep construction sites. In this challenge you can design and build a model elevator and test how strong it is.
Recommended for ages 5+, caregiver participation encouraged.
This is a drop-in session.

Sunday 11 May, 11am to 1pm

Easter egg hunt
2025-04-06 11:00 - 13:00 | Experience Centre, 1/151 Elizabeth Street, Brisbane, Queensland, 4000, Australia
Learning more about Cross River Rail has never been so much fun. Tour our Experience Centre and find the hidden eggs as you go. Find the hidden eggs and swap five for a cool prize. Ready, set, hunt!
Recommended for all ages, caregiver participation encouraged.
This is a drop in session.

Sunday 6 April, 11am to 1pm
Saturday 12 April, 11am to 1pm
Tuesday 15 April, 11am to 1pm
Thursday 17 April, 11am to 1pm
