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Official Visitor Guide

Your essential travel guide for Melbourne and Victoria.

Accommodation

Staycation

Return to your city this summer with the ultimate urban staycation, and experience the best Melbourne has to offer.

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Villages

Take time to seek out Victoria's tiny villages and towns. They're the small spaces that are home to some of the state's best-kept secrets.

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Art and culture

Explore Melbourne and Victoria's best creative and cultural spaces, from galleries and museums, to artists' studios.

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Accommodation

From glamping, to camping, to luxury holiday homes, Victoria has a dream space for every sleepy head.

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Eat & drink

Find a perfect match in food and wine. Discover your happy space at cellar doors, restaurants and farm gates in Victoria.

Exhibitions

NGV Triennial 2020

Until 18 Apr 2021

Exploring some of the most globally relevant and pressing issues of our time, including isolation, representation and speculation on the future, the NGV...

Motor sport

Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix

18 - 21 Nov 2021

Get the motor running and enjoy a long weekend of F1 action on and off the track including motor shows, air displays and of course, the big race.

Art & exhibitions

RISING

26 May - 06 Jun 2021

RISING is Melbourne’s major festival of the night — a surge of art, music and ceremony in the heart of Melbourne.Ambitious in scale and impact, RISING...

Exhibitions

The Story of the Moving Image

Until 17 Mar 2022

Journey through the past, present and future of the moving image through interactive experiences, digital innovation and captivating stories in this unforgettable...

Design

Melbourne Fashion Festival

11 - 20 Mar 2021

The Melbourne Fashion Festival is an annual celebration of fashion, arts, ideas and creative endeavour for everyone to enjoy. The Festival presents world-class...

Plays & musicals

Moulin Rouge! The Musical

13 Aug 2021

Baz Luhrmann’s revolutionary film comes to life onstage in 2021, remixed in a new musical mash-up extravaganza – Moulin Rouge! The Musical.

Plays & musicals

Come From Away

28 Feb 2021

The Tony® and Olivier Award winning musical Come From Away tells the remarkable true story of thousands of stranded passengers and the small town in Newfoundland,...

Comedy

Melbourne International Comedy Festival

24 Mar - 18 Apr 2021

Laugh, chortle, giggle and snort at everything from wry young hipsters and slapstick heroes to musical comedy and good ol’ timey cabaret stars.

Festivals

Melbourne Food and Wine Festival - The March Edition

12 - 31 Mar 2021

Raise a toast to regional producers and savour a meal and a glass of wine at delicious food festival events, including the World's Longest Lunch.

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Aboriginal Victoria

Aboriginal bush food and plants

Join Aboriginal guides on tours of gardens and reserves around Victoria to learn about the different native bush foods and plants and their uses.

Aboriginal Victoria

Aboriginal seasons of Victoria

Learn the names and meanings of the different Aboriginal seasons and weather periods in and around Melbourne and west up to the Grampians/Gariwerd.

Aboriginal Victoria

Hands-on experiences

Get hands-on with a range of interactive, immersive Aboriginal cultural experiences and activities, from message-stone painting to boomerang throwing.

Things to do

Tours

Jump in a coach, climb on a raft or don your walking shoes and join a tour to let the professionals reveal Melbourne and Victoria's hidden treasures.