Planning a trip to Melbourne? Check out what's on
Melbourne is a city that's alive with action – and as a Melbourne-based business, we're in the know about great things to see and do in our wonderful city. Use our search function below to help plan your trip.
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Find events underway while you’re in Melbourne:
Melbourne Food and Wine Festival
Each year in March Melbourne Food and Wine Festival unveils a world class program of more than 250 events – a true expression of Melbourne's infamous love of food and wine that captures the attention of food lovers in their hundreds of thousands.
2 Mar – 21 Mar
Australian International Airshow
Experience the high powered thrills of a spectacular airshow. The flying action is so close you’ll feel like you are in the pilot’s seat. Where: Avalon Airport. (Dates TBC)
4 Mar – 6 Mar
L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival
L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival has become Australia’s premium consumer fashion event offering a diverse range of activities that embrace fashion, the creative arts, social interaction and commercial ideas.
14 Mar – 20 Mar
Melbourne Queer Film Festival
Get along to the largest bent film festival in Australia and lubricate your mind. Where: ACMI, Melbourne.
17 Mar – 27 Mar
2012 FORMULA 1™ Australian Grand Prix
Join over 300,000 fans and enjoy four days of action on and off the track including the motor shows, air displays and the big race. Where: Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit.
24 Mar – 27 Mar
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Laugh out loud at the cream of Australian and international comics at Australia’s largest annual festival. Various venues.
30 Mar – 24 Apr
Rip Curl Pro
Each year the world’s top ranked surf riders carve up the waves on Victoria’s surf coast at Bells Beach. Where: Bells Beach, Torquay. (Dates TBC)
19 Apr – 30 Apr
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
The Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) is a world-class facility that caters for both national and international conventions, large scale public and trade exhibitions, corporate meetings and specialised events. The Melbourne Convention Centre is one of the most impressive architectural buildings in Australia and the first convention centre in the world to achieve a ‘6 Star Green Star’ environmental rating. It is easily accessible from every direction by foot, car or public transport and is surrounded by cafes, bars, shopping and fine restaurants.
Year round
Old Melbourne Gaol
Home to Melbourne’s oldest prison, historic Magistrate’s Court and former Police City Watch House, Russell Street has been the heart of crime, law and order in Melbourne since the 1840’s.
Year round
National Gallery Of Victoria
The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) is Australia's oldest and most distinguished public art museum. The NGV collection comprises more than 70,000 artworks spanning thousands of years.
Year round
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Heide Museum of Modern Art is a unique space – a synthesis of indoor and outdoor environments, a place of modern and contemporary art and design, with a rich and colourful art heritage and social history. The Heide site comprises 16 acres of buildings, gardens and sculpture park presenting a dramatic combination of indoor and outdoor spaces.
Year round
Melbourne Cricket Ground
In sport-mad Melbourne one venue stands head and shoulders above the rest as the epicentre of Victorian sport – The Melbourne Cricket Ground. Affectionately known as ‘The G’ to locals and cricketing fans the world over, the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) is a cultural icon and one of the most important cricket grounds in the world.
Year round