Melbourne: History and Heritage


Heritage Buildings
Athanaeum Club - Melbourne
Banyule - Heidelberg
Former Baptist Church House - Melbourne
Bascilica of Our Lady of Victories - Camberwell
Cathedral College - East Melbourne
Como mansion - South Yarra
Cooks Cottage - Fitzroy Gardens
Coolart Homestead - Somers
Coops Shot Tower - Melbourne
Darnlee - Toorak
Donkey Wheel House - Melbourne
Edzell - Toorak
Flinders Street Station - Melbourne
Fort Queenscliff - Queenscliff
Hawthorn House - Hawthorn
Keilor Inn - Keilor
Labassa - Caulfield
LaTrobe Cattage - Kings Domain
LaTrobe Reading Room - Melbourne
Mandeville Hall - Toorak
Medley Hall - Carlton
Melbourne General Cemetery - Carlton
Mission To Seafarers - Melbourne
Mostsalvat - Eltham
Old Melbourne Gaol - Melbourne
Old Treasury Building - Melbourne
Princes Pier - Port Melbourne
Rialto Building - Melbourne
Rippon Lea - Elsternwick
Ross House - Melbourne
Royal Exhibition Building - Carlton
The Church of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart - Carlton
Royal Exhibition Building - Carlton
Shrine of Remembrance - Kings Domain
Simonda Hall - South Yarra
St Mary's Anglican Church - North Melbourne
St Mary Star of the Sea Church - West Melbourne
Station Pier - Port Melbourne
Stonnington House - Malvern
Tay Creggan - Hawthorn
Victorian Artists Society - East Melbourne
Victoria inn - Williamstown
Wesley Uniting Church - Melbourne
Wheeler Centre - Melbourne
Willsmere - Kew
Windsor Hotel - Melbourne
Woodlands Historic Park - Greenvale
Yorkshire Brewery Tower - Collingwood



Upper Goulburn Valley Goldfields
In the 1860s the mountainous terrain of the Upper Goulburn Valley was invaded by thousands of miners after alluvial gold was first disovered at Raspberry Creek in 1859. Today the Goulburn and Jamieson Rivers are popular for trout fishing, canoeing, 4-wheel driving and gold fossicking in and around the ghost towns and gold mines on and beyond the Yarra Track.

Industrial Heritage


For much of its history Melbourne has been Australia's largest single centre of manufacturing. Once the gold rushes of the 1850s increased Melbourne's population more than fourfold in a decade and a policy of import protection was implemented in the 1860s, manufacturing became the biggest sector of the Melbourne economy and the main source of employment. Protective tariffs probably contributed to the pre-eminence of manufacturing in Melbourne.

From the mid-1970s, a globalised 'new economy' created investment and job opportunities in a broad range of industries, but heralded the beginning of the end for manufacturing in Australia, and Melbourne in particular. Many of Melbourne's iconic industrial buildings have been adapted for other uses.

Industrial Heritage Sites >>

Melbourne's Top Museums

Museum Victoria

Museum Victoria operates four very different museums situated at three separate locations. Melbourne Museum, located just north of the Melbourne CBD, focuses on the natural environment, life, culture and history of the state of Victoria. Entry fees apply.
Scienceworks

Scienceworks is located in an old Pumping Station 5 km from Melbourne CBD, Scienceworks is maze of a hands-on interactive displays than make learning about science fun. It includes the Melbourne Planetarium.


Other Museums
Airways Museum - Essendon
ANZ Banking Museum - Melbourne
Australian Racing Museum Hall of Fame - Flemington
Charlie's Pine Ridge Car Auto Museum - Arthurs Seat
Melbourne Chinese Museum - Melbourne
Corps of Commissionaires Military History Society Museum - Melbourne
Coops Shot Tower Museum - Melbourne
Fire Services Museum - East Melbourne
Fox Classic Cars - Docklands
Goold Catholic Museum - East Melbourne
Grainger Museum - Carlton
Heide Museum of Modern Art - Bulleen
HMAS Castlemaine - Williamstown
Ian Potter Museum of Art - Carlton
Immigration Museum - Melbourne
Jewish Holocaust Museum - Elsternwick
Jewish Museum - St Kilda
LaTrobe Cottage - Kings Domain
McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park - Langwarrin
Medical History Museum - Carlton
Melbourne Museum of Printing - West Footscray
Melbourne Planetarium - Spotswood
Museum Victoria - Carlton
National Aviation Museum - Moorabbin
National Sports Museum - Richmond
Newport Rail Museum - Newport
Old Melbourne Gaol - Melbourne
Old Treasury Museum - Melbourne
Polly Woodside - Southbank
RAAF Museum - Point Cook
Scienceworks - Spotswood
Seaworks Williamstown - Williamstown
Steamrail Heritage Rail Journeys - Melbourne
TAA Museum - Airport West