Calling all art lovers! If this is you, you'll love the NGV. Free admission to the NGV, and if you want to visit the exhibition currently in display, feel free to purchase an exhibition ticket (optional).
Established in 1854 as the Melbourne Public Library, the State Library of Victoria is Australia's oldest public library and one of the first free libraries in the world! Free entrance into the library (you may need to put oversized backpacks into a locker in the lobby), there are beautiful archives on display around the library. But feel free to study, too!
Directly in front of the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne Central is a subway hub, transporting thousands of city high school and university students, as well as workers from around Melbourne! Home to the historical shot tower located inside, Melbourne Central is a throwback to both the old and the new!
Located right in front of the famous Bourke Street mall in the heart of Melbourne City, the Royal Arcade was opened in 1870 and is the oldest surviving arcade in Australia, known for its elegant light-filled interior, and the large carved mythic figures of Gog and Magog flanking the southern entry.
Melbourne doesn't throw away the old... it uses it for the now! Flinders Street station, named after English navigator and cartographer Matthew Flinders and located right across St Paul's Cathedral, opened on September 12th 1854 and was the first railway station built in any Australian city. Be also on the lookout for old trams! Those trams were the original trams built for the 1956 Olympic Games!
Pay a small admissions fee and take the elevator to the 88th floor! If you're brave enough, opt to stand inside the thrilling Edge -- literally a wall that takes you out into open air and where the floor is see-through glass!