Strike QV, located in the heart of the city, is one of Melbourne's best entertainment experiences, fully equipped with a cocktail bar and gourmet kitchen.
With 12 bowling lanes, three escape rooms and a private karaoke room, allowing you to 'belt' out the latest tunes Strike QV's got it all.
So whether you're having a kids party, Christmas function, team building event - or a night out with mates, they've got you covered.
The Queen Victoria Women’s Centre is an iconic Melbourne landmark that supports women through creative experiences, community resources and the power of connection. QVWC Shop showcases locally sourced products by some of Victoria's finest women and non-binary artists, designers, authors and makers.
QVWC Shop is a registered social enterprise and exists to support the talented makers in their community with an independent retail space in the middle of the bustling Melbourne CBD.
The store offers a wide range of beautiful, unique and ethically sourced gifts including clothing, ceramics, jewellery, art, homewares, books and more.
Welcome to State Library Victoria, the oldest public library in Australia, and one of the first free public libraries in the world. With 170 years of history, the State Library has become a must-do destination for visitors to Melbourne with a passion for books, history and beautiful spaces.
Located in the heart of the city opposite Melbourne Central, the State Library is a vibrant hub of activity within Melbourne's knowledge and arts precinct, with a packed program of free exhibitions, events, and activities all year round.
With free Wi-Fi and storage lockers, food and beverage options, books and magazines to read, a beautiful forecourt to take in the sunshine and dedicated quiet zones, the Library is an excellent base for tourists and a home away from home.
Art lovers, history buffs, holidaying families and tranquillity seekers will all find something to love at the State Library. Its spectacular spaces, including the iconic domed reading room, house thousands of items reflecting Victoria's diverse cultural and social history.
Be sure to see Ned Kelly's armour, pore over rare books, first editions and significant artworks, and join a free tour to learn about the building's fascinating history. Come and experience the magic of the State Library Victoria - an essential stop on your Melbourne itinerary.
Step inside Old Melbourne Gaol, one of Melbourne's most iconic heritage attractions and home to Victoria's oldest surviving prison. Opened in 1845, it's where some of Australia's most infamous figures, including bushranger Ned Kelly and gangster Squizzy Taylor, were once imprisoned.
Explore three levels of the Gaol at your own pace with the included self-guided audio tour. See the historic gallows, discover Ned Kelly's death mask, learn about the 133 people who were executed at the gaol, and uncover the stories of the men, women and children who passed through its cells. Try on Ned Kelly's replica armour and capture your own Old Melbourne Gaol mug shot.
Looking to delve deeper? Join an expert guided Gaol tour, uncover the legend of Australia's most famous outlaw on the Ned Kelly's Last Stand Tour, experience life as a prisoner in the interactive Life in the City Watch House, or visit after dark for the Hangman's Night Tour or 'Ghosts? What Ghosts!?' Night Tour.
During school holidays, families can enjoy special children's programs and hands-on activities.
Only a short walk from Melbourne Central station or take Melbourne's free City Circle Tram to Stop 7.
Pre-purchase tickets online or on the day. National Trust Members receive free general admission, plus free or discounted entry to more than 1,000 National Trust properties and experiences across Australia and around the world.
Emporium Melbourne: The House of Melbourne, is more than a shopping centre, it's the heartbeat of Melbourne's cultural scene. Since its 2014 opening, it's been the ultimate space where the city's vibrant spirit merges with fashion, dining, and unique experiences. It's where Melbourne's most stylish gather, culture thrives, and the community connects.
Fashion and Retail Emporium showcases over 150 stores, featuring premier fashion from Australian and international designers. Iconic retailers like UNIQLO, Muji, and Coach make it the go-to for trendsetters and quality seekers.
Dining Level 3 offers a culinary haven that reflects Melbourne's diverse food culture, with 30 dining options from exclusive restaurants to a premium food court, offering everything from quick bites to gourmet meals.
Architecture and Connectivity Emporium seamlessly blends modern architecture with Melbourne's heritage, connecting effortlessly to Myer, David Jones, and Melbourne Central via pedestrian bridges, making it an easily navigable hub.
Cultural Engagement More than retail, Emporium is a celebration of Melbourne's culture, hosting exclusive fashion shows, art installations, and unique events, constantly evolving as an all-inclusive cultural destination.
Open daily with extended hours on Thursdays and Fridays for late-night shopping. Visit the official website for the latest on store openings and events.
Emporium Melbourne embodies the best of style, culture, and community. Experience the house of Melbourne.
Marche Board Game Cafe is located on lively A'Beckett Street in the heart of Melbourne CBD, just a block from Melbourne Central. This inviting space offers hours of entertainment with board games, karaoke, and a menu featuring delicious popcorn chicken rice, refreshing bubble tea, and creamy milkshakes.
Let the board games take you on an adventure. Outsmart opponents, guess the word, share a laugh, or enjoy a classic round of Monopoly—the choice is yours. As the first board game café in Melbourne, Marche brings people together over games and great food.
Beyond board games, Marche features sixteen private karaoke rooms with a diverse selection of songs in English, Chinese, K-pop, J-pop, Thai, Malay, and more—perfect for karaoke lovers to sing their hearts out.
This family-friendly café hosts kids' birthday parties, board game tournaments, student club events, and company team-building sessions.
Marche is the perfect spot for fun and connection.
Archie Brothers QV in Melbourne is serving up amazing food, drink, and all-round good vibes while you team up with friends in the most mesmerising arcade bar around.
From modern arcade games, claw and ticket machines, virtual reality, coveted collectables and more - Archie Brothers QV is the night out.
Hijinx Hotel is an immersive interactive game experience housed within the theme, wonder and theatre of a quirky New York style hotel where the rooms are reimagined into quick play, challenge rooms. Leave the suitcases at home - these are rooms where you play, not stay.
Each of the hotel wings home highly fun and experiential, game-afied rooms made up of five different collaborative games, including massive adult ball pits, giant size scrabble tiles and rubix cubes and even a chance to win prizes from a claw machine in one of the rooms. Throw in unicorns a plenty and Hijinx is perfect for five and 500 year olds, fun for the young and the young at heart in a group, on a date or just out with a mate, Hijinx Hotel is the best place to play.
Adventure Rooms is one of Melbourne's most popular escape room experiences, offering customers a choice of six exciting games across two locations in the heart of the Melbourne Central Business District.
Players work together with their team to hunt hidden objects, and solve creative puzzles and try to escape the room before the 60 minutes on the clock runs out.
Adventure Rooms is a perfect activity to do in any weather with family, friends or team building with work colleagues. Being right in the heart of Melbourne's Central Business District means there are plenty of parking and public transport options as well as bars and restaurants to visit before or after your experience.
Trapt Bar and Escape Rooms delivers infamously challenging Trapt Rooms and sumptuous prohibition cocktails in the heart of Melbourne's City Centre.
Designed for groups of up to eight people, your team must find clues and solve puzzles to escape before time runs out.
The themed adventures will transport you to a world you could previously only imagine. Your team has 50 minutes to solve a series of puzzles guaranteed to challenge your thinking. You will need intuition, logic and teamwork to succeed.
Can you escape?
e.g.etal: Contemporary Jewellery and Objects is a Melbourne gallery that represents and supports Australia's thriving contemporary jewellery design movement.
Established in 1998, e.g.etal maintains a passionate commitment to contemporary jewellery. The gallery now represents over 50 Australian and New Zealand jewellery artists and designers, with occasional international guests.
The constantly evolving collection is an inspiring selection of contemporary jewellery conceived and made by individual designers.
e.g.etal seeks to promote the essence of contemporary jewellery, which is a practice defined by considered research, conceptual ingenuity and intrepid technical diligence that challenges and delights and looks to the past and forges into the future.
At e.g.etal each piece is unique, but each is alike: carefully conceived, beautifully crafted and sincerely passed on.
Piccolo Teatro, Melbourne's newest bespoke magic theatre, specialises in astonishing magic shows and immersive live entertainment.
Discreetly nestled in one of Melbourne's iconic city laneways, Piccolo Teatro seats a cosy 32 audience members, blending French Gothic design with the old-world historic charm that Melbourne's laneways are famous for. Accessible only by a secluded door and an ascending wooden staircase, the space offers a uniquely bespoke experience, with sophisticated illusion, mind reading and magic shows performed by Sam Angelico and Richard Vegas and open to cabaret, vaudeville and unique live entertainment.
Piccolo Teatro features Miracles Up Close - Magic, performed by some of Australia's and Melbourne's best magicians, Sam Angelico and Richard Vegas. Each session is approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes. Illusion, mind reading and incredible magic performances up close in a newly designed theatre space made for magic. The space offers a unique and immersive experience and the ultimate in magic shows.
Paris Argentina Jewellery, nestled in the heart of Melbourne, specialises in refined, elegant designs that exude timeless sophistication. Each piece is thoughtfully handcrafted in their Melbourne studio, with the collaboration of a few trusted artists, using only natural precious and semi-precious gemstones set in solid gold or silver.
Their collection highlights the natural beauty of gemstones, featuring signature Australian opals alongside other exquisite stones, celebrated for their enduring grace.
Whether you're searching for a meaningful gift, a personal indulgence, or wish to reimagine a treasured heirloom, they are here to offer expert guidance and craft a piece as unique as your story.and other natural stones that resonate with timeless grace.
Whether you're seeking a special gift or a personal treat, they are ready to offer insightful advice on the creation of a unique piece or the thoughtful redesign of a cherished heirloom. Come, and experience a unique blend of quality and elegance.
Ever wanted to throw an axe? Maniax axe throwing - Melbourne brings their second Melbourne location to the heart of Melbourne central business district, offering an urban axe throwing experience like no other.
Learn how to hurl hatchets with your trained axe-pert coach before jumping into an epic competition to crown the axe throwing champion. With a selection of craft beers, viking inspired cocktails and stone-baked pizzas onsite, Maniax axe throwing -Melbourne is the perfect place for birthday parties, bucks’ and hens nights, team building, date night - or if you would just really love to throw an axe.
Charles Rose is the premier Australian jewellery design house and hand-made specialist. Since 1923, it has crafted jewellery of beauty and quality. It features a renowned team of master jewellers, and an extensive inventory of superior diamonds.
Currently there are three stores across Melbourne and Geelong:
The Bourke Street store has been an icon in Melbourne for three decades, located at 415 Bourke Street, is a renowned destination for finer diamond rings and jewellery. You can visit here to see some of their master jewellers at work, and discuss with skilled and knowledgeable staff to purchase one of the iconic items, or design and have your jewellery made-to-order.
The new diamond boutique at 546 Collins Street offers an exclusive range of premium quality diamond rings and jewellery that meets the expectations of the most fastidious customers. You can also discuss your ideas for a new design, or modify existing designs.
They also have a store in the centre of Geelong that features a three storey art gallery and fine diamond jewellery showroom. A superb collection of very fine hand made diamond jewellery items is complimented by a fine art gallery on the upper levels.
Charles Rose diamonds – Australia's finest.
Queen Victoria Market is an authentic, bustling, inner-city market that has been the heart and soul of Melbourne for 140 years. Home to over 600 small businesses, it is a great place to discover fresh and specialty produce, hand-made and unique products, great coffee and food, souvenirs and clothing.
Shopping at the Market has always been one of life’s great pleasures. It is not just the abundance of fresh food, it’s the friendly banter with the traders, the vibrant and multicultural atmosphere, the special events and festivals, and the sense of belonging that comes with it.
While you’re here, make sure you visit String Bean Alley which is home to a colourful collection of Melbourne’s best independent makers, creators, designers and artists.
Be sure to take the Ultimate Foodie Tour, a two-hour guided walking tour where you’ll taste the freshest produce, discover unique ingredients, learn tips and tricks for shopping and cooking, discover the Market's history and meet some of our beloved traders. Bookings essential at the website.
Queen Victoria Market is also home to the Night Market on Wednesday nights, showcasing global street food, live music and entertainment, festival bars, specialty shopping and a great Melbourne night out. The Market also offers a historic venue space with a range of indoor and outdoor spaces.
Escape This delivers Australia's most immersive escape experiences - cinematic, story-led adventures that go far beyond what an escape room is expected to be.
Awarded Australia's Best Immersive Experience Provider in 2026, Escape This is bringing its fully realised worlds to Melbourne from 14 August 2026.
The venue will eventually feature 12 experiences, including five adventure and seven horror-themed worlds, making it a standout group activity destination where players create lasting memories together.
Craft Victoria is a leading centre for contemporary craft and design, located in Melbourne's Central Business District.
Craft Victoria brings together the makers, collectors, collaborators and communities at the centre of contemporary craft and design in Australia. From the first steps of a practice to a lifetime of making, from a single object to a major public artwork, this is where the full breadth of the discipline finds its home. You can discover one-of-a-kind collectable pieces handmade by Australian artists. The Craft Shop presents work by hundreds of Australian makers and designers working across diverse mediums, including ceramics, jewellery, textiles, glass, metal and more.
For more than fifty years, it has been the place where making is taken seriously. A living, evolving discipline with as much to say about the present as it does the past, where material is more than medium, it is language, and where process sits at the core of the work. Craft's exhibition program presents the work of artists whose practice spans the boundaries of contemporary art and hand-crafted material practice. Balanced to reflect a range of materials, art forms, innovative techniques and cultural diversity, their exhibitions offer a unique cultural experience for all visitors and art and design enthusiasts.
MDT Design is an award-winning, family owned and operated Melbourne CBD jeweller, proudly established in 1981.
They specialise in handmade engagement rings, wedding rings and bespoke custom jewellery, designed and crafted on-site by their experienced in-house designers and jewellers.
They create timeless pieces in platinum and premium 18 carat gold in a range of colours and qualities, including rose gold, white gold and yellow gold. Their jewellery features carefully selected diamonds and coloured gemstones, including sapphires, emeralds and rubies.
MDT Design are specialists in Mokume Gane rings and tension set rings, offering unique and expertly engineered designs. Their range includes custom engagement rings, diamond rings, men's and women's wedding bands, plus earrings, pendants, chains, bangles and bracelets.
They also provide professional onsite jewellery repairs and remodelling, including ring resizing, chain repairs, restorations and jewellery remodelling, completed on-site with care.
Fed Square is Melbourne's public square and the civic, cultural and community heart of the city. It boasts world-class art galleries and installations, a brilliant and diverse range of food and drink and thrilling, extraordinary events.
Located opposite the iconic Flinders Street Station and standing at the gateway to both the arts and sporting precincts, Fed Square is Melbourne's premier meeting place, tourist destination and event venue for thousands of events a year, from small business functions to massive cultural pillars like New Year's Eve, Christmas, Diwali, and more.
Long before Fed Square was built, the site on which it now stands was an important gathering place for the area's Indigenous groups. For tens of thosands of years, the people of the Kulin Nations came together on the banks of the Birrarung (Yarra River).
Since opening in 2002, Fed Square has seen more than 100 million visits, has been named the sixth best public square in the world and is Melbourne's number one visitor destination. In 2019, Fed Square was listed on the Victorian Heritage Register, the youngest building to ever be recognised in this way.
Fed Square is home to four of Victoria's major cultural institutions: ACMI, Australia's Museum of Screen Culture, the Koorie Heritage Trust (KHT), The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia and the Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio (MESS).
Step into Melbourne's fascinating past at the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, housed in an iconic art deco former military drill hall. As Victoria's oldest historical society (founded in 1909) and the second oldest in Australia, this is the perfect place to discover the stories that shaped Melbourne.
Just steps from the historic Flagstaff Gardens, this heritage building houses an exhibition gallery showcasing Melbourne's rich history, a specialist library, and a bookstore filled with local historical treasures. Whether you're interested in colonial Melbourne, gold rush tales, or the evolution of its neighborhoods, the free gallery exhibitions offer something for every history enthusiast.
Join their popular weekly Flagstaff Gardens heritage tour every Monday, where you'll uncover the hidden stories of one of Melbourne's most significant green spaces. There are also regular events featuring nationally-recognised historians, author talks, and book launches that bring Melbourne's past to life.
Their welcoming spaces are perfect for history lovers, students, researchers, or anyone curious about Melbourne's remarkable journey. There is also a function room for hire for corporate events in a unique heritage setting.
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square is the home of Australian art with superb collections of Australian Indigenous and non-Indigenous art from the Colonial period to the present day.
With more Australian art on permanent display than any other gallery in the world, as well as special exhibitions and programs, cafes, a restaurant and new perspectives of the city through its glass matrix, NGV Australia is more than a great place to view art. It is a completely fresh approach that encourages people from all walks of life to enjoy the world of art within the new cultural heart of Melbourne.
The NGV collection of Australian art comprises more than 20,000 works. Approximately 800 works are displayed in the new building at one time, and many of these will be rotated frequently to show the full breadth and diversity of Australian art, and to provide visitors with fresh insights.
Admission to the permanent collection is free. Fees may apply to special exhibitions, as advertised.
The Old Treasury is regarded as one of the finest public buildings in Australia. Completed in 1862, it was the major government office in Melbourne throughout the 19th century, and second only to Parliament House as the centre of state affairs.
Designed by a 19 year old architect, John James Clark, it is widely considered to be one of the finest examples of Renaissance Revival architecture in Australia.
Until 1992, the building housed a succession of government departments including the city office of the Victorian Governor.
Restored and opened to the public as a museum in 1994, it provides an ideal orientation to Melbourne for visitors wishing to understand and explore the city's history, architecture, art and contemporary life.
It houses permanent exhibitions: 'Yarra: Stories of Melbournes River', 'Melbourne: Foundations of a City', 'Making Modern Melbourne' 'Protest Melbourne', Growing Up in the Old Treasury' and the story of gold in the original vaults. Current temporary exhibition 'Belongings: Objects and Family Life' looks at the objects you own and how you've changed them, and they've changed you.
See areas of the building inaccessible to the general public, including the Executive Council Chamber, find out more about Melbourne's fascinating gold rush past and see rare paintings from the Roy Morgan Research Centre collection by joining their monthly guided tour.
Clementine's is the home of locally made gifts, souvenirs and fine food.
They love to bring you produce and products made and crafted in Victoria, Australia. They're very proud of their artisan makers and growers and support over 80 small Victorian creative businesses in their store.
Clementine's caters for both, the discerning tourist and the Melbourne based traveller, wishing to take a little taste of Australia to the world.
