Museums in Melbourne

The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) is Australia's oldest and most visited art museum, founded in 1861. Housed in a striking brutalist building on St Kilda Road, it holds over 75,000 works spanning international and Australian art.

Old Melbourne Gaol is one of the city's oldest surviving buildings, a bluestone prison that operated from 1842 to 1929. It is best known as the site where bushranger Ned Kelly was hanged in 1880.

ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) is a world-first museum dedicated to film, television, video games, and digital culture. Located in Federation Square, it celebrates the art of the screen in all its forms.

Melbourne Museum is one of the largest museums in the Southern Hemisphere, set within the UNESCO-listed Carlton Gardens. Its collection spans natural history, science, Indigenous culture, and Melbourne's social history.

Heide is where modern Australian art was born. The riverside property in Bulleen served as home and salon to patrons John and Sunday Reed, who nurtured artists including Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker and Joy Hester.

Scienceworks is Melbourne's hands-on science and technology museum, located in the inner-western suburb of Spotswood. Part of Museums Victoria, it features interactive exhibits, a planetarium, and a lightning room.

The Immigration Museum Annexe extends the parent museum's mission with rotating exhibitions on diaspora, displacement and multicultural identity. Recent shows have explored Vietnamese-Australian stories, Pacific Island communities and the refugee experience.

Located in the heart of St Kilda, the Jewish Museum of Australia traces the 200-year history of Jewish life on the continent. The permanent gallery Timeline charts the journey from convict-era arrivals to post-war migration, while rotating exhibitions explore identity, art, and diaspora.

The Immigration Museum tells the stories of people who have migrated to Victoria from around the world. Housed in the beautifully restored Old Customs House, it explores journeys, identities, and the multicultural fabric of Melbourne.