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Exhibition Street
Sutherland St
Walk along Flinders Lane and turn

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Melbourne State Library
left into Duckboard Place 2, where Guildford Ln Central
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Elizabeth Street
walls full of gig posters and majestic

Spring Street
7 Little Lonsdale St
murals accompany world-class Little Lonsdale St

dining including Pastuso, Tonka,

Heape Crt

Drewery Ln
Melbourne
Garden State Hotel and Lee Ho Fook. Central
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Village

Continue into AC/DC Lane 2, 6

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named in tribute to the iconic local The

Tattersalls Ln
band. The rock‘n’roll spirit is strong Her Majesty’s Comedy

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Strand
Supreme Theatre Theatre

William Street
here, with tributes to Malcolm and Court
Emporium
Melbourne

Queen Street
Angus Young and a concrete
in one of the world’s great figure of AC/DC’s original singer, Little Bourke St Chinatown Little Bourke St

Croft Alley
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street art capitals, the city Bon Scott, bursting through the Melbourne’s Theatre
brickwork.
itself feels like a canvas. GPO David
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Emerge onto Flinders Lane and Bourke Street Bourke Street Parliament
cross Russell Street to find the 5 Station

Coromandel Pl
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street art haven Hosier Lane 3.

Meyers Pl
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Exhibition Street
Elizabeth Street

Union Ln
Every inch of this laneway is

Russell Street

Spring Street
covered with art, and it’s likely you’ll
Little Collins St 4 Little Collins St
catch an artist creating a work-in

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progress. Grab a seat at MoVida or Presgrave Pl

Bar Tini and watch it unfold, or help Melbourne

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Walk along Flinders Street passing

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Swanston Street
Beaney Ln
William Street

Queen Street

St Paul’s Cathedral and Flinders

Street Station, and turn into Flinders Lane Flinders Lane
2

Hosier Ln
Degraves Street
Degraves Street, a bustling hub of

AC/DC Ln

Duckboard Pl
City

Oliver Ln

Higson Ln
cafes crammed tightly together. Library St. Pauls
Cathedral
Admire the neon rainbow artwork Immigration Forum 3
Museum
before continuing on to Centre Theatre
Flinders Street Flinders Street
Place, one of Melbourne’s most
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your right you’ll find Presgrave
Place 4, home to some of
Melbourne’s most unique small-
scale street art, with framed
mixed-media works along one wall.
Continue along Howey Place and
cross Little Collins Street to Union
Lane 5. Running alongside the
David Jones department store, this
narrow lane packs a pop of colour
and boasts an impressive volume of
street art.
Meyers Place Blender Lane AC/DC Lane
From the Bourke Street Mall, weave
through the crowds on Swanston
Street towards Chinatown. Here oTHER STREET ART SiTES FoR MoRE inFoRMATion
you’ll find Tattersalls Lane 6,
home to bars Section 8 and Melbourne is as unique and changeable as its urban artistic Melbourne Visitor Hub at Visit whatson.melbourne.vic.gov.au
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Keen to discover more hidden areas of the central city? Melbourne Visitor Booth in
Skip across to Drewery Lane 7, off The City of Melbourne
Check out these additional sites of significance: Bourke Street Mall,
Lonsdale Street, where a mosaic of open daily 9am–5pm acknowledges the contribution
handmade tiles honours the lane’s Coromandel Place street art makes to the vibrancy
223 Franklin Street
long-time resident, Legacy House. Queen Victoria Market of the city and its laneways and
Opposite the Queen Victoria Complete with green vines, planter
Created by the families and friends Visitor Hub, is continuing to work with various
Market, this laneway is full of boxes and speciality coffee from
of war veterans, this evolving open Tue and Thu 9am–2pm, city communities, across a range
bright street art and home to a Oli & Levi, this lane features large
artwork, known as The Melbourne Fri–Sun 9am–3pm of areas, to encourage a thriving
collaboration piece by portrait scale works by artists Ghostpatrol
Legacy Centenary of Anzac Street legal street art ecology for the
artists Adnate and Swaze. and Al Stark. Fitzroy Gardens Visitor Centre,
Art Mural, is guaranteed to pluck at benefit of all.
Croft Alley Beaney Lane open daily 9am–5pm
the heartstrings.
Access this winding laneway off This small, lesser known laneway
Head down Little Lonsdale Street, City Ambassadors,
Little Bourke Street in Chinatown is home to the Middle Eastern-
cross Elizabeth Street and turn into Mon–Sat 10am–4pm,
to discover walls splashed with inspired bar Spice Market, and
Sutherland Street, to find one of Sun 11.30am–3pm
graffiti-style art and colourful offers a mix of graffiti-style art
the newer street art showcases in murals. and striking murals.
the city. Guildford Lane 8 boasts
many plants and vines, forging its Meyers Place Higson Lane
status as a green laneway. Of note Find Mike Makatron’s stunning Running alongside the popular
is artist Mike Makatron’s ‘greening’ Jungle Funk mural, commissioned Chin Chin restaurant is an
of an old electrical substation door, for the city’s Green Your Laneways impressive tribute to some of the
as well as the lane’s cafe society project, at the Bourke Street end of world’s top chefs painted by Cover: BombG, Croft Alley
vibe. Try Krimper and Brick Lane or Meyers Place. Melbourne-based artist Heesco. TM 07/19
book in for a special petting
session at the Cat Cafe.
Croft Alley Tattersalls Lane
Turn right onto Queen Street
towards the Queen Victoria Market
and admire the artwork in the
laneway just over Franklin Street,
at 436 Queen Street 9. Be sure to
look up as large-scale murals cover
both sides of the laneway.
Walk through the lane and back
out to Franklin Street where you’ll
reach your final destination,
Blender Lane 10, filled with bright
and provocative artworks.