Take one of our tours without leaving the room! We have provided many illustrated ‘Virtual tours’ using speaker, images and historic artefacts for many conferences, forums, AGMs, public meetings, historical societies, universities, schools and launches.
Your speaker is Meyer Eidelson, former president of the St Kilda Historical Society, film-maker and the author of fifteen books about Melbourne including the award-winning Melbourne Dreaming. Meyer has designed over 100 cultural and heritage tours across Melbourne for his walking tour company Melbourne Walks.
Virtual Tours can be created from the many listed Melbourne Walks or include those below.
Examples of popular talks!
Bearbrass – Discovering Early Melbourne
Melbourne’s Secrets – A hidden history of the CBD
The Life and Adventures of William Buckley
OTHERS
- The Wild White Man. Exploring the Footsteps of William Buckley
- Unsolved Crimes of Melbourne (Delivered ACMI, Fed Square)
- Indigenous sustainability in Design and Architecture (Delivered Melbourne University School of Architecture).
- Milestones of Melbourne’s history (Delivered Monash University)
- Fantastical St Kilda
- Designing interpretation for Cultural trails (DelivTertiary Students)
- The Melbourne Dreaming: Aboriginal Places of Melbourne (Reconciliation Groups, City Port Phillip)
- Aboriginal History of St Kilda
- Aboriginal History of the Yarra (Reconciliation Groups)
- Bourke and Wills: Tragedy or Conspiracy? (CAE)
- The History of Little Lon (Melbourne Old Pioneers Society)
- The History of Luna Park (Port Melb, Middle Park HS, various)
- History of Middle Park (City Port Phillip)
- Living Wild in Melbourne – resources used by indigenous people and settlers. (Northcote Library)
‘Meyer will discuss the life of the Melbourne CBD from its indigenous origins, early settlement, boom and bust to a now thriving modern centre of art, architecture and culture. He has written more than 14 books and published a number of others dealing with the natural, cultural and social history of Melbourne. He is the founder of Melbourne Walks, which hosts walking tours to impart social and historical knowledge.
Carnegie Library public talk