Melbournewalks.com, an award-winning company, is OPEN for tours. We continue, as we have for the past three decades, to provide high quality and personalised walking tours. All our tours support and comply with Victorian Government COVID-19 guidelines.
Discover Melbourne from the inside: heritage, culture, architecture, art, iconic venues, and hidden places. Our professional guides deliver highly researched tours tailored to suit individuals, couples, families, large groups and schools.
Choose from one of our many tours or request a unique tour fashioned around your interests.
For bookings please contact us.
LOST SCHOOLS OF ST KILDA
The early schools of St Kilda provide fascinating insights for anyone interested in schools and how our education system evolved. Prior to … Read more
Melbourne Online Tour Indigenous Landscapes
See our range of online tours. The pdf below is an example of material we deliver to schools online. May take a … Read more
Online Melbourne Tours
Many of Melbourne Walks School Tours can be adapted for use by school groups using media such as video, google slides, google … 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
Amazing Melbourne Lanes & Arcades Tour
Explore Melbourne’s vibrant and fascinating maze of lanes and arcades. 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 Street Art and Graffiti Tour
EXPLORE Melbourne’s famous street art and graffiti in the city’s labyrinth of lanes. Don’t miss one of the most radical urban art movements in the world. See also … Read more
Sustainable Architecture Tour
THE SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE TOUR explores Melbourne’s goal to be a sustainable ‘carbon neutral’ precinct within two years (2020). Is that possible and … Read more
Indigenous Landscapes Tour
VISIT Melbourne’s Indigenous places such as camping, ceremonial, ngargee (corroboree), historic and archaeological sites Read more
MELBOURNE STREET ART TOURS
OUR Melbourne school street art and graffiti tours have been experienced by hundreds of groups including primary, secondary, tertiary and international student groups. … 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
HISTORIC PUBS AND PLACES TOUR ST KILDA
VISIT over a dozen past and present drinking holes in seaside St Kilda dating from the Gold Rush. Travel from the Elephant and Wheelbarrow … Read more
WALKING TOURS FOR CLUBS $25
Over fifty cultural, historic and Indigenous walking tours! The perfect learning and social event for club members of U3A, Probus, Rotary, Life Activities. … Read more
TOP OF HISTORIC MELBOURNE
ADVENTURE with an historian to see hidden places, forgotten stories and rare views of heritage Melbourne. Locations, depending on dates and times, … 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
Madame Brussells Tour
VISIT the historical places of Madame Brussell’s life and times. She ruled the bordellos of Lt Lonsdale, Lt Bourke and Chinatown in gold-rush Melbourne. Her bagnios opposite Parliament drew the … 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
Daylesford Goldfield Tour
EXPLORE one of Victoria’s most popular and historic country towns, famous for historic buildings, forest, minerals springs, and heritage goldfields. Daylesford, 90 … Read more
SQUIZZY TAYLOR TOUR
Take a walking tour through the CBD of places associated with the notorious ‘Squizzy’ Taylor. The diminutive ex-jockey was a self-promoting gangster, … Read more
THE LOST MELBOURNE TOUR
Do you love history? Do you want to experience the bones of a city with someone born and bred to this town … Read more
PUBLIC TALKS AND VIRTUAL 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
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
Melbourne Innovation Tour
MELBOURNE has been voted the world’s most liveable city seven times. What are the innovations that put this city on the world … 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 and its extraordinary history of first burials, signal station, observatory, corroboree site, promenade for early Melbournians, historic buildings … 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
Bearbrass: Early Melbourne Tour
Visit the original locations of early Melbourne, also known as ‘Bearbrass’ e.g settlers’ homes, Batman Hill, gaols, pub, church, docks Read more
Dunny Lanes of Melbourne
Join an 1880s ‘Dunny’ (sanitation) Crew on their rounds though the hidden 120-year-old infrastructure of Melbourne’s lanes 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
Squizzy Taylor Tour
Explore the many city-centre places associated with the notorious ‘Squizzy’ Taylor: theft, assassination, bombing, hideouts, standover and more. The diminutive ex-jockey … Read more
QUEEN VICTORIA MARKET TOUR
EXPLORE the vibrant and historic Queen Victoria (QV) market, a colorful and popular destination for visitors and a food heaven. FIND OUT about current proposals for extensive redevelopment of … Read more
Marvellous Smellboom Tour – the ‘Low Life’ of Melbourne
Experience Alternative Melbourne – far more interesting than the glittering ‘Marvellous Melbourne’ of the Victorian era! Behind the shiny facade was an … Read more
Early Melbourne Identities
Characters from our Tour of Early Melbourne Town that you may well have bumped into while walking the stump-filled streets of Bearbrass … Read more
MARVELLOUS MELBOURNE
Journey along the ‘The Golden Mile’ of Collins Street and experience 185 years of iconic Melbourne places. Explore iconic architecture from the … Read more
LIVING WILD OFF THE LAND
OUR 2.5 hours tours are by arrangement at a time of choice. FORAGE through Melbourne reserves and foreshore exploring how Australians from … Read more
MELBOURNE WOMEN TOURS
OUR Melbourne Women Tours visit visit heritage places to appreciate how women from all walks of life during Melbourne’s history, have contributed … 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
Op Shops by the Bay by Bike
Go Bike! Go Op Shop! Go Bayside Melbourne! St Kilda Port Melbourne Balaclava South Melbourne Albert Park Regardless of … Read more