Culture Capital Free Walking Tour
3pm, click ‘Join a tour’ to find out what days we walk
- Click 'Join a tour' for times
- 1½ hour walking tour
- FREE (Pay what you think it's worth)
- Tour starts at the State Library of Victoria (on Swanston St, next to the Sir Redmond Barry statue)
Explore hidden lanes & arcades
Join your local guide as we leave the beaten path behind. We’ll uncover the secrets behind Melbourne’s famous culture as we take you through some of the best hidden laneways, arcades and architecture to discover the local and alternative side to Melbourne.
What we'll cover
– Diverse Street Art
– Coffee Culture
– Old and New Architecture
– Laneway Transformation and Planning
– Hidden Bar Culture
– Live Music Scene
– Indigenous Culture
– Multicultural Influences
– Protests & Entrepreneurs
– Environmental initiatives
– Melbourne Town Hall
– General Post Office
– Australian Rules Football
– Presgrave Place
– Postal Lane
– Union Lane
– Manchester Unity Building
– AC/DC Lane
– Coromandel Lane
– Caledonian Lane
– Russell Place
– Rainbow Alley
– Drewery Lane
Join a tour
Please note: We aren’t able to accept groups of 10+ or school / tertiary education groups of any size on the free tours. Instead we offer Private Tours. Separate registration of large groups will not be accepted on the day as it affects the tour for everyone else.
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Join a Tour
Please note: We aren’t able to accept groups of 10+ or organised, school or tertiary education of any size on the free tours. Instead we offer Private Tours. Separate registration of large groups will not be accepted on the day as it affects the tour for everyone else.
At I'm Free we're all about
All I’m Free guides are experienced and knowledgeable locals who are excited to show you around their hometown.
We’re all about being real! Each of us will share with you our honest, local advice about where to explore, eat or drink. We are never paid to promote or advertise to you.
We will share with you the unique and quirky stories of our city as well as the history behind our main attractions.
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FAQs
Yes, we require bookings so that we can manage numbers and guide availability.
Nope. Not due to weather, we walk rain, hail or shine, and that’s saying something in Melbourne!
We do however, take the current health situation very seriously. In the unlikely event that your guide is at all unwell before the tour and we can’t replace the guide at short notice we may have reschedule. Equally if you’re not feeling well please let us know and we’ll be happy to reschedule your booking to another time when you’re feeling 100%.
Thank you for thinking of us. Yes we can accept, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, JCB and eftpos cards as well as Apple Pay, Google Pay & Samsung Pay.
Yes. The ‘Culture Capital’ tour is accessible to both pram and wheelchairs.
It is a walking tour. This tour is about 2.5km (1.5 miles) in total and we walk at a leisurely pace, stopping to speak at regular intervals along the way.
Currently we only offer tours in English.
It can be tricky to find the group once they are under way.
That said we give 5 minutes for people to turn up late and then are at the start point for a few minutes after that.
From there we walk west (right) along Little Lonsdale St and then south (left) at the first laneway, Drewery Lane. From there we continue into Caledonian lane, then West (right) along Little Bourke and south (left) through postal lane into Bourke St Mall.
Thank you for thinking of others to create spaces for them to join.
If you need to cancel or change the date of your booking there is a link in your confirmation email that allows you to do that.
If you need to change the number of people in your booking get in touch and we can adjust it for you.
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