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Galleries, Museums, and Craft Centres Around MelbourneMelbourne has an active community life, with many people exploring our history and our current intellectual and artistic life through clubs, museums, and galleries. For example, the William Ricketts sanctuary is an outdoor gallery of the artist's works; and the Old Melbourne Gaol is a museum of nineteenth-century penal life. | ||
| ![]() Sunday Craft Market beside the river | ||
Australian Gallery of Sport and Olympic Museum The MCG Great Southern Stand tour departs Wednesdays at 11 a.m. from the Gallery of Sport foyer and includes entry to Australian Gallery of sport & Olympic Museum, one-hour guided tour of members pavilion on non-event days (10 a.m. - 3 p.m), tourist viewing of the MCG on event days. MCG tours depart hourly 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. seven days a week. The Australian Gallery of Sport and Olympic Museum are open daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. except Good Friday and Christmas Day. Ph: (03) 9657 8879 Fax: (03) 9654 1387 | Public transport: Tram from Flinders St, or train to Jolimont railway station | |
Casa Mariciana Art Gallery | ||
Heidi Park
On the upper part of the main Yarra bike trail. Features include the Museum of Modern Art, a collection of modern art built around the private collection of the Reeds.
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Olympic Museum, see Australian Gallery of Sport and Olympic Museum | ||
St Kilda Esplanade
Arts & Crafts market, just down the road from Acland St - possibly the cake capital of Melbourne. Every Sunday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. | The Esplanade, St Kilda Number 15 tram from Swanston St or Light Rail number 96 from Bourke St. | |
scienceworks Hands-on exhibitions and activities, especially for kids of all ages. Spotswood Pumping Station, steam engines in action. Melbourne Planetarium (which replaced H.V.McKay Planetarium). Lightning Room.
Open daily from 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. except Good Friday and Christmas Day.
Ph: 13 11 02 Website
| 2 Booker St, Spotswood, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Take the train on Werribee, Williamstown or Newport line, alight at Spotswood railway station. 10 min walk (signposted). Or catch the City Wanderer bus from Flinders Street station. | |
Sinclair's Cottage Australian art, jewellery, sculpture, pottery and other crafts. Daily 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Free | Fitzroy Gardens, Wellington Parade. | |
Sports Gallery, Australian and Olympic Museum, see Australian Gallery of Sport and Olympic Museum | ||
Victorian Tapestry Workshop To view the best contemporary tapestries in public buildings, get the walking map.
Tours Wed & Thus 2 p.m. & 2:30 p.m
Ph: 9699 1494 | 260 Park St, Sth Melbourne | |