see also:

• history of Melbourne
• Melbourne
• lookouts around Melbourne
• bushwalks within 200km of Melbourne
• Melbourne weather
• Melbourne's mansions
• Melbourne's buildings, architecture, bridges, monuments, mansions and icons - by Whitehat

• Melbourne Museum
• Melbourne Immigration Museum
• Old Melbourne Gaol
• State Library of Victoria
• The Melbourne Athenaeum is Melbourne’s oldest cultural institution, starting as Melbourne’s first Mechanics Institute in 1839
• Chinese Museum
• Jewish Museum of Australia
• Koorie Heritage Trust Inc
• Captain Cooks Cottage
• Victoria Police Museum
• Enterprize - Melbourne's Tall Ship
• Polly Woodside ship
• Haunted Melbourne Ghost Tour
• Melbourne City Heritage Walking Tours
• Shrine of Remembrance
• Como Historic House and Garden
• The Astor Theatre

• Werribee Mansion
• Pt Cook homestead
• RAAF museum Point Cook

• Woodland's Historic Park and homestead
• Rupertswood Mansion Sunbury
• Emu Bottom Homestead, Sunbury

• Montasalvat artist colony Eltham
• Bundoora Homestead is a magnificent Queen Anne style Federation mansion built in 1899 operating as a historic house, art gallery and cafe

• Schwerkolt Cottage Museum - Mitcham - orchardist museum Mullum Mullum
• Puffing Billy steam train rides
• The Jewish Holocaust Museum

• Dandenong Heritage Hill Museum & Historic Gardens

• Black Rock House
• Rippon Lea mansion
• The Australian National Aviation Museum
• Briar's Historic Park - Mt. Martha
• Pt Nepean

• Maldon
• Castlemaine
• Clunes
• Creswick
• Ballarat
  • Sovereign Hill gold mining tourist park
  • Eureka Stockade miners' rebellion
  • Ballarat Tramway Museum
  • Ballarat Fine Art Gallery is Australia's oldest and largest regional gallery
• Bendigo
  • Central Deborah Gold Mine
  • Bendigo Vintage 'Talking' Trams
  • Golden Dragon Museum
• Heathcote
  • The Bank Heathcote
• Warrandyte

• Coal Creek Historical Park, Korumburra, Gippsland - free entry open weekends