Melbourne Walks has been inspiring Primary, Secondary, International and ESL students with over fifty imaginative excursions and incursions since 1991. We also create, blend and design new walks that excite students to meet your specific learning outcomes and curriculum guidelines. We often assign every student with a role of an important Melbourne identity during the tour.
Risk Plan 2020-2021 Melbourne Walks
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Online Melbourne Tours
Most of our fifty tours can be adapted on request for use by school groups and others on request with live video … Read more
City Discovery School Tours
The City Discovery School Tour takes your Primary, Secondary or International students to the iconic places and landmarks of the Melbourne CBD … Read more
‘Runner’ Squizzy School Tour
Our popular school tour in the CBD is based on the brilliant novel ‘Runner’ by Robert Newton. We are proud that our tour has engaged and … Read more
‘Runner’ Squizzy Online School Tour
Welcome to our ONLINE RUNNER JOURNEY through the streets of Melbourne using Google Slides.OUR Online Runner Tour is an alternative to our … Read more
Melbourne Geography and Places Tour
OUR two-hour school excursion, commencing and finishing at Federation Square, explores the changing geographic and urban characteristics of Melbourne places from the Yarra River … Read more
The Liveability of Melbourne – School Geography Excursion
TAKE a voyage through the urban regeneration of Melbourne. WHAT makes a community and place liveable and sustainable? WHAT are the environmental, social, … Read more
Melbourne Crime Tour
HAVE you got the detective skills to crack Melbourne’s cold cases and collect millions of dollars of rewards? Read more
MELBOURNE SUSTAINABILITY SCHOOL TOUR
THE CITY OF MELBOURNE’s goal is be a sustainable ‘carbon neutral’ precinct by the end of 2020. Is that possible and how? OUR … Read more
MELBOURNE STREET ART SCHOOL TOURS
OUR Melbourne school street art and graffiti tours have been experienced by over one hundred primary, secondary and International student groups. We also provide … Read more
Melbourne Multicultural Tour
EXPLORE the City of Melbourne, the home of one of the world’s most harmonious and culturally diverse communities. Residents from 180 countries live side by … Read more
Melbourne Industrial Revolution School Tour
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (IR) was a period 1700s to 1800s when new energy uses of coal and steam powered revolutionary machines that … Read more
Fabulous Architecture Melbourne Tour
OUR tour tells the fabulous Architecture of Melbourne story from early lanes to goldrush boom to inter-war to the modern era to the ‘carbon-neutral’ … Read more
Indigenous Landscapes Tour
VISIT Melbourne’s Indigenous places such as camping, ceremonial, ngargee (corroboree), historic and archaeological sites Read more
Melbourne Explorers School Excursion
HOW was Melbourne impacted by the great journeys of exploration in Australia, the Pacific and the world? WHAT is an explorer and what … Read more
Federation Schools Tour of Melbourne
Our tour takes your Primary or Secondary students to iconic places that tell the evolving STORY of Federation, the creation of the … Read more
Melbourne School Economy Tour
This two hour school tour explores places in the city centre that tell historic and contemporary economic stories showing how Melbourne’s residents and … Read more
Melbourne Social Justice Tour
Protest in Swanston Street against budget cuts by Government to low-income groups 2015. Melbourne has been described as the founding heartland of … Read more
MELBOURNE LANDMARKS, SHAPES AND MATERIALS
This two hour school walking tour travels between Federation Square and Eureka Tower via Melbourne’s Birrarung or Yarra River as well as via … Read more
Australian Film Tour
VISIT iconic movie locations in the Melbourne CBD that tell the history of Australian film-making including famous lanes and arcades, historic buildings … Read more
MERRI CREEK AND DIGHTS FALLS TOUR
This tour explores the extraordinary landscapes of Merri Creek, Dights Falls Park and the Birrarung or Yarra River. It explores important Indigenous, … Read more
VIRTUAL TOURS AND PRESENTATIONS
Take one of our tours without leaving the room! We have provided many illustrated ‘Virtual tours’ using speaker, images and historic artefacts … Read more
Melbourne Tourism School Tour
UNDERTAKE an interactive tour of Melbourne to discover: – WHAT makes a city a successful cultural tourism precinct. – ROLE of a … Read more
EARLY MELBOURNE SCHOOL TOUR
LEARN about the early explorers and founding settlers on the Birrarung or Yarra Yarra River and the events that led to settlement in defiance … Read more
Growing an Indigenous school garden
At Melbourne Walking Tours we harvest wild and sustainable Indigenous food, medicine, tools, shelter and other resources from our local Melbourne environment utilising the … Read more
ALL OUR TOURS (100)
We provide over 100 different walking tours as well as designing and combining tours to meet special requests. Choose your theme and … Read more
The Colonial Era – School Tour of Melbourne
EXPLORE Melbourne’s colonial, settlement and gold rush period, 1835-1901, LEARN about the settlers, their challenges, personalities. VISIT milestone buildings and locations reflecting milestones in the … Read more
Melbourne Innovation Tour
EXPLORE places, events and characters in Melbourne that have demonstrated Innovation now and in the past . EXPERIENCE an historical overview of innovative … Read more
The City of Literature Tour
JOURNEY through our UNESCO City of Literature with its rich history of authors, publishers and books, EXPLORE the creative ways that Melbourne’s literature … Read more
FLAGSTAFF HILL TOUR
Explore Melbourne’s oldest park – Flagstaff Gardens – with its extraordinary history of rare and ancient trees, graveyard, signal station, observatory, corroboree site, promenade … Read more
Melbourne Science, Innovation & Technology Tour
EXPLORE Melbourne places with historic and contemporary connections to geography, prehistory, palaeontology, cosmology, physics, geometry, gravity, geology, archaeology and sustainability, bio-mimicry, architecture, chemistry, … Read more
School Tour: Outdoor Environments and Indigenous Relationships
This tour explores the extraordinary outdoor area around the confluence of Dights Falls, Merri Creek and the Yarra River. This was the … Read more
Radical Melbourne Tour
CELEBRATE an alternative history of protesters, strikers, street artists, bohemians, feminists, socialists, Aboriginal resistance fighters, slum sisters, soldiers, activists, writers, printing presses, anti-rascist campaigners and … Read more
School Excursion – A New Land: Port Phillip District 1830-1860.
Imagining Australia: (Australian History, VCE Units 3 Area of study 1) is an exciting and recent text addressing the requirements of the … Read more
SCHOOL HISTORY TOUR FROM MELBOURNE MUSEUM
Walk from the Melbourne Museum on the route via Collins Street towards Federation Square or other destination visiting key historic and contemporary buildings and locations that … Read more
St Kilda Walking Tours
Explore Fantastical St Kilda, one of Melbourne’s most popular and historic suburbs. Absorb its extraordinary atmosphere, architecture, pubs, mix of people, pleasure … Read more
Traders & Explorers – School Excursion
DISCOVER how the great journeys of exploration and the trade routes of the past impacted on Melbourne. This excursion in the Melbourne CBD … Read more
SCHOOLS TOUR: HOW COMMUNITIES EVOLVE AND CHANGE
Our tours examine who lived in a community and how do we know? How has our community changed over time? What features … Read more
Melbourne Geography Tour
Our tour looks the human and geographic characteristics of central Melbourne and the human impact on the environment including changes to natural … Read more
MARVELLOUS MELBOURNE
Journey the‘The Golden Mile’ of Collins Street to experience 180 years of iconic Melbourne places. Explore the great heritage and contemporary architecture from … Read more
FASHION IN THE LANES
What is fashion? What makes us ‘fashionable’? What is design? How do fashion designers survive? Is fashion diverse enough to street art, … Read more
Historic pubs of South Melbourne
Explore up to 20 past and present historic hotels of South Melbourne from the 1850s to today in Victoria’s oldest suburb outside … Read more
Melbourne Ancient Greece Tour
How has the philosophy, architecture, science and arts of ancient Greece influenced Melbourne’s buildings, culture and livability? Our walking tour visits … Read more
Melbourne Chinatown Schools Tour
Our walking tour provides opportunities to gain an understanding into key locations within one of the oldest Chinatowns in the world and its influence on Chinese history … Read more
St Kilda Cemetery Tour
DISCOVER extraordinary lives and superlative monuments with the author of ‘Nation Builders. Great Lives and Stories from St Kilda Cemetery‘. VISIT identities such as … Read more
PORT MELBOURNE REBORN
EXPLORE the historic suburb of Port Melbourne, transformed in recent years from working class docks and suburb to one of Victoria’s most … Read more