The relocation of the collection to the supremely central civic location of the Melbourne Town Hall has facilitated a new era of accessibility for the collection.

Free guided tours of the collection​ are now available to the public on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

Located in the Swanston Street facade of Melbourne town hall, the City Gallery presents free, specialist curated exhibitions on city life, past and present.

Opening hours
Weekdays 8.30am to 5.00pm
Closed weekends and public holidays

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 McEwans hardware store in Bourke Street. Gotcha! presents 40 of the surviving prints from the McEwans pavement, together with stories of the celebrities who made them and newspaper images capturing the mood of the times.

The city’s permanent outdoor collection is very public – out in the elements, on the streets, in the parks, day and night. From ‘River God Fountain’ (1863) to ‘Vault’ (1980) and ‘Standing by Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner’ (2016), the city’s 180-odd pieces of public art have become part of its cultural DNA.