Art and culture – Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges

Discover the artistic heritage of the Yarra Valley and the surrounding region. Visit the area around Eltham and northwards along the Diamond Valley, the traditional home of the Wurundjeri Aboriginal people and site of Australia’s oldest artists’ colony, Montsalvat. The famous Heidelberg School set up camp in the area in the late nineteenth century to paint the surrounding landscape – see where the artists lived and worked along the Heidelberg School Artists Trail.