Area Attractions

Upscale spot presenting French cuisine, a raw bar & drinks in a white-tablecloth dining room.

Cantonese meals in a sprawling, red-carpeted restaurant with panels of Chinese art lining the walls.

Spacious monochrome Modern Italian restaurant with slick decor, hanging dome lights, and cellar bar.

Classy rooftop terrace bar with Parliament House views, serving cocktails, wine and gourmet snacks.

Australia’s leading contemporary art gallery with the best international and Australian artists.

With some of the world’s finest art collections, National Gallery of Victoria is Australia’s oldest and largest art museum.

Magnificently restored theatre that has been part of the Melbourne story since 1929, hosting some of the world’s most renowned theatre productions.

The site of Australia’s first Federal Parliament in 1901, the Royal Exhibition Building features the world’s only surviving Great Hall which is still in use.

Leaving the fuss and babble of the modern world behind, you are wrapped in timeless beauty. Known as the home to all Melbourne’s great musicals, Her Majesty’s Theatre also presents opera, ballet, plays and concerts as well as private events and functions.

The State Theatre is home to two of our fabulous resident companies: The Australian Ballet and Opera Australia.

Experience the wonder of life in all its forms – human and animal, vast and tiny, ancient, alive and as you have never imagined it.

The Library has grown to span an entire city block, adding all manner of reading rooms, galleries, exhibition spaces, lecture halls and venues: The Ian Potter Queen's Hall is the jewel in the Library's stellar collection of unique heritage spaces or LaTrobe Reading Room, the magnificent octagonal reading room is six storeys high.

Explore Melbourne’s most popular shopping hub. Home to two main department stores, David Jones and Myer, as well as the iconic GPO building.

Known as the fashion capital of the city, hit the shops at Australia’s largest shopping centre.

Located in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD, with 225 stores including fashion, culture, food and art.

Australia’s longest standing arcade and Melbourne’s first, features a collection of quality boutiques and stores.

Teeter on The Edge, a switchable glass cube that slides you out from the building's 88th floor for unsurpassed views of Melbourne and far beyond.

A historic amusement park offering 18 rides and attractions, located on the foreshore of St Kilda.

Discover a wide variety of fresh, quality produce and specialty shopping. Melbourne's iconic market, Queen Victoria Market has been operating since 1878.

Join a wildlife safari, Melbourne style, and spot rhinos, cheetahs, giraffes, zebras and monkeys as they roam freely through the grounds of the zoo.

Set on 22 hectares close to the heart of the city, Melbourne Zoo has more than 320 wildlife species from Australia and around the world. There is free Meet the Keeper talks daily between 10:30am – 3:30pm.

Healesville Sanctuary is a Zoo specialising in native Australian animals. Wander through the tranquil tracks and meet iconic Australian animals including koalas, kangaroos, platypus, dingoes, wombats and emus.

Birrarung Marr is situated on the north bank of the Yarra River next to Federation Square. The park’s playground is always open for anyone. Bring your kids along and watch them enjoy the tube slides, sandpits, swinging hammocks, activity panel rock and rope climbing features and balance beams.

Puffing Billy travels through the magnificient forests and fern tree gullies of the Dandenong Ranges. This century-old steam train is still running on its original mountain track from Belgrave to Gembrook in the scenic Dandenong Ranges and is a genuine relic of more leisurely days.

Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Melbourne Gardens has been a treasured part of Melbourne’s cultural life for more than 170 years – much loved by generations of Victorians, as well as by many visitors from interstate and overseas. It is a picturesque haven for recreation and an important resource for education, conservation, science and horticulture.

Southern Ocean and Antarctic aquarium located on Flinders Street, Melbourne.

Fitzroy Gardens is one of Melbourne’s most historic and beautiful gardens. Located in East Melbourne, Fitzroy Gardens is bounded by Lansdowne, Wellington, Clarendon and Albert streets.

The foreshore is a hive of activity as walkers, joggers and rollerbladers race by, while kitesurfers, windsurfers and all-weather swimmers make the waters their playground.

A World Heritage Site that features flowerbeds, ornamental lakes and elaborate fountains. Carlton Gardens is surrounded by the Royal Exhibition Building, and Melbourne Museum.

Over 38 hectares, Melbourne’s Royal Botanical Gardens house an impressive collection of over 10,000 species of plants from around the world.