OUR SCHOOL TOUR PROGRAMS since 1991 have inspired primary, secondary, and tertiary students with over thirty imaginative walking excursions (below). We adventure through Melbourne’s places, times and cultures to excite students about meeting their learning and curriculum outcomes. We actively engage students with role-plays, historic identities, activities, and images. Popular tours include Federation, Sustainability, City Discovery, Multicultural, Runner (Squizzy Taylor), Street Art, Liveability, Geography and Place, Crime, Economy, Indigenous Landscapes, Explorers, Colonial/Early Melbourne, Social Justice, Science and Innovation, Lanes and Arcades and 20 others! Or ask us to design a unique tour just for you!
Our excursion calendar often fills rapidly – book early to avoid disappointment!
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We follow a publicly available Student Safety Code of Conduct and Risk Plan 2026-2027
Please note that cancelling or altering previously confirmed bookings may attract a nominal administration fee.
BOOKINGS AND INQUIRIES
City Discovery School Tours
THE CITY DISCOVERY SCHOOL TOUR is a journey through the Story of Melbourne from Indigenous to European occupation to the Gold Rush … Read more
RISK PLAN MELBOURNE WALKS 2026
Our SCHOOL TOURS PROGRAM has been inspiring students since 1991 with over thirty imaginative excursions. We create, blend and design experiences that excite students to meet … Read more
School Tour Coles Arcade: The Grandest Bookshop in the World
VISIT the famous former Coles Book Arcade (1873-1929), ‘the grandest bookshop in the world’ and an icon of gold rush Melbourne. Explore … Read more
Federation School 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 Crime Tour
HAVE you got the detective skills to crack Melbourne’s cold cases and collect millions of dollars of rewards? Read more
Sustainable Architecture Tour
THE SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE TOUR explores Melbourne’s goal to be a sustainable ‘zero-net emissions precinct’ by 2040. Is that possible and how? Our … Read more
Melbourne Geography & Places Tour
OUR two-hour school excursion, commencing and finishing at Federation Square explores the changing geographic and urban characteristics of Melbourne places including the Yarra … 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 … Read more
Melbourne Sustainability School Tour
THE CITY OF MELBOURNE’S goal is a sustainable ‘zero net emissions precinct’ by 2040, despite many challenges, including a 60% increase in … 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?HOW were Indigenous people important explorers of … Read more
Fabulous Architecture Melbourne Tour
OUR tour explores the fabulous architecture of Melbourne story from early lanes to the goldrush boom to inter-war to the modern era to … Read more
School Tours: Melbourne Street Art & Graffiti
OUR Melbourne street art and graffiti tours have been experienced by thousands of primary, secondary, tertiary and international students. Tours are normally two … Read more
Melbourne Social Justice Tour (Schools & Groups)
MELBOURNE is a founding heartland of Australian democracy and the peace movement. Australia was instrumental in both the founding of the United … Read more
Melbourne School Economy Tour
OUR 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 Multicultural School Tour
EXPLORE the City of Melbourne, the home of one of the world’s most harmonious and culturally diverse communities. Residents from 200 countries … Read more
The Liveability of Melbourne – School Geography Excursion
TAKE a voyage through the iconic lanes, streets and buildings of Melbourne, a city voted seven times the most liveable city in … Read more
Melbourne Design and Technology School Tour
Our Design and Technology School tours (two hours) explore the design and technology processes of both historical and modern buildings around Melbourne. … Read more
MARIBYRNONG RIVER SCHOOL TOUR
Our walking experience for students explores features of Melbourne’s second major waterway, the Mirring-gnai-birr-nong, home to both old and new living environments. … Read more
All Our School Tours
See all of our Melbourne school tours and excursions. Read more
Melbourne Industrial Revolution School Tour
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (IR) was a period 1700s to 1800s when new-found energy uses of coal and revolutionary steam-powered machines reduced human labour … Read more
MELBOURNE ARTISTS SCHOOL TOUR
SCHOOLS AND ADULT GROUPS WELCOME VISIT a wide variety of public artworks and art locations including painting, engraving, murals, mosaics, street art, … Read more
MERRI CREEK & 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
Landmarks, Shapes & Materials Tour
This two hour school walking tour travels between Federation Square and Eureka Tower via Melbourne’s Birrarung (Yarra River) and via bridges, roads, … 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
MARVELLOUS MELBOURNE – THE GOLDEN MILE
Journey along the ‘The Golden Mile’ of Collins Street and experience almost 190 years of iconic Melbourne places. Explore the iconic architecture … Read more
PUBLIC HISTORY AND CULTURAL TALKS
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
NJ UNDERTAKE an interactive tour of Melbourne to discover: WHAT makes a city a successful cultural tourism precinct? ROLE of a tour … Read more
ALL OUR TOURS (50)
We provide over 50 different walking tours as well as designing and combining tours to meet special requests. Choose your theme and … Read more
EARLY MELBOURNE (COLONIAL ERA) SCHOOL TOUR
LEARN about the early explorers and founding settlers on the Birrarung or Yarra Yarra River and the events that led to a … Read more
Growing an Indigenous Garden
At Melbourne Walks, we are perpetually harvesting wild Indigenous food, medicine, tools and other resources from our local Melbourne environment using the … Read more
The Colonial Era – School Tour of Melbourne
EXPLORE Melbourne’s colonisation, European settlement and gold rush period, 1835-1901. LEARN about the colonial settlers, their challenges, personalities and the impacts of colonisation … 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
Melbourne Science Tour
EXPLORE Melbourne places connected to science, technology and innovation including geography, prehistory, palaeontology, cosmology, physics, geometry, gravity, geology, archaeology and sustainability, bio-mimicry, … Read more
Outdoor Environments & Indigenous Relationships – School Tour
This tour explores the extraordinary outdoor area around the confluence of Dights Falls, Merri Creek and the Yarra River. This was the … 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
A New Land: Port Phillip District 1830-1860 – School Excursion
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
Daylesford Goldfield Tour
Melbourne Walks is a member of Friends of Cornish Hill. Any income from this tour is donated to bushland restoration. THIS TWO-HOUR … 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
FASHION IN THE MELBOURNE STREETS AND LANES
EXPLORE sites that tell stories of historic and contemporary expressions of fashion in the City of Melbourne WHAT is fashion? What makes … Read more
Melbourne Symbols School Tour
We explore the theme of Symbols in Melbourne’s CBD through the medium of street art, cultural typography and iconic architecture focusing on … 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 desirable … Read more
HOW COMMUNITIES EVOLVE & CHANGE – SCHOOLS TOUR
Our tours examine who lived in a community and how do we know? How has our community changed over time? What features … Read more
Historic Pubs of South Melbourne
Explore up to 20 past and present historic hotels of South Melbourne from the 1850s to today. South Melbourne is the second-oldest … Read more
Melbourne Ancient Greece School Tour
HOW has the philosophy, architecture, science and arts of ancient Greece influenced Melbourne? OUR walking tour visits important buildings, architecture and historic … Read more
Melbourne Chinatown School Tour
OUR walking tour provides opportunities to gain an understanding into key locations within one of the oldest continuous Chinatown in the world … Read more