Take a free guided tour of the City of Melbourne's Art and Heritage Collection store, located in the historic and iconic Melbourne Town Hall. All 16 rooms across the entire fourth floor have been refurbished as an open display collection ready for the public to discover. The collection is eclectic, numbering over 13,000 items and including over 170 outdoor artworks in the streets and parks of Melbourne. Its most basic division is between its indoor and outdoor components, between artworks that need to be protected from the elements and those that do not. Objects on display in the collection fall into nine categories. - Moomba/Olympics / public art / street art - Managing our city - Melbourne photography - First Nations artists - Books and plans - Miscellaneous Melbourne - Council and ceremonial - City gifts - Reliquary Tour times; Tuesdays from 11am - 12:00pm and 1:00pm - 2:00pm Thursdays from 9:30am -10:30am Fridays from 2:30pm - 3:30pm Bookings essential

Take a free guided tour of the City of Melbourne's Art and Heritage Collection store, located in the historic and iconic Melbourne Town Hall. All 16 rooms across the entire fourth floor have been refurbished as an open display collection ready for the public to discover. The collection is eclectic, numbering over 13,000 items and including over 170 outdoor artworks in the streets and parks of Melbourne. Its most basic division is between its indoor and outdoor components, between artworks that need to be protected from the elements and those that do not. Objects on display in the collection fall into nine categories. - Moomba/Olympics / public art / street art - Managing our city - Melbourne photography - First Nations artists - Books and plans - Miscellaneous Melbourne - Council and ceremonial - City gifts - Reliquary Tour times; Tuesdays from 11am - 12:00pm and 1:00pm - 2:00pm Thursdays from 9:30am -10:30am Fridays from 2:30pm - 3:30pm Bookings essential

Take a free guided tour of the City of Melbourne's Art and Heritage Collection store, located in the historic and iconic Melbourne Town Hall. All 16 rooms across the entire fourth floor have been refurbished as an open display collection ready for the public to discover. The collection is eclectic, numbering over 13,000 items and including over 170 outdoor artworks in the streets and parks of Melbourne. Its most basic division is between its indoor and outdoor components, between artworks that need to be protected from the elements and those that do not. Objects on display in the collection fall into nine categories. - Moomba/Olympics / public art / street art - Managing our city - Melbourne photography - First Nations artists - Books and plans - Miscellaneous Melbourne - Council and ceremonial - City gifts - Reliquary Tour times; Tuesdays from 11am - 12:00pm and 1:00pm - 2:00pm Thursdays from 9:30am -10:30am Fridays from 2:30pm - 3:30pm Bookings essential

Join us for an Auslan interpreted tour of the City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection store for people who are Deaf or hard of hearing. The Art and Heritage Collection comprises contemporary art including work by First Nations artists, historical artefacts, photography and more. The collection is eclectic, numbering over 13,000 items and including over 170 outdoor artworks in the streets and parks of Melbourne. This free guided tour will take place inside the Collection store, located in the historic and iconic Melbourne Town Hall. Displayed across 16 heritage rooms, the collection is arranged according to thematically and theatrically organised 'chapters'. Tour time: Wednesday 1 May 2024, 1.00-2.30pm

Take a free guided tour of the City of Melbourne's Art and Heritage Collection store, located in the historic and iconic Melbourne Town Hall. All 16 rooms across the entire fourth floor have been refurbished as an open display collection ready for the public to discover. The collection is eclectic, numbering over 13,000 items and including over 170 outdoor artworks in the streets and parks of Melbourne. Its most basic division is between its indoor and outdoor components, between artworks that need to be protected from the elements and those that do not. Objects on display in the collection fall into nine categories. - Moomba/Olympics / public art / street art - Managing our city - Melbourne photography - First Nations artists - Books and plans - Miscellaneous Melbourne - Council and ceremonial - City gifts - Reliquary Tours times; Tuesdays from 11am - 12:00pm and 1:00pm - 2:00pm Thursdays from 9:30am -10:30am Fridays from 2:30pm - 3:30pm Bookings essential

Join writer and curator Robyn Annear in this lively discussion of the City Gallery exhibition, 'Gotcha! Concrete prints from the McEwans celebrity pavement'. Who remembers the McEwans celebrity pavement? Between 1972 and 1994, scores of celebrities had their hand and footprints immortalised in cement at the entrance of the McEwans hardware store in Bourke Street. Shopping for a hammer or a hair-dryer, you’d step in the prints of actors, musicians, sportspeople, writers, dancers, politicians, an astronaut, a racehorse – even an operatic dog. 'Gotcha!' presents 40 of the surviving prints from the McEwans pavement, together with stories of the celebrities who made them and newspaper images that capture the mood of the times.