Just 30 minutes drive from the CBD or Melbourne Airport, Melbourne’s Valley of the Arts offers magnificent Australian bush settings, celebrated art and architecture, history and heritage and endless places to stay, eat, shop and explore.
Lovers of modern art will find endless galleries to explore
and the traditionalists can find significant celebrations of the area that gave the Heidelberg School of Artists its name.
The valley embraces the arts in all its incarnations, so hunt out the performing arts venues, potteries, art studios and workshops dotted throughout it.
Victoria’s gold rush past can be explored at the Gold
Sound - scapes Trail in Warrandyte, you can step back
to pioneering days at Schramms Cottage in Doncaster
or drop into Petty’s Orchard in Templestowe to see a
heritage orchard growing more than 200 varieties
of apples
For many, the culinary delights of Melbourne’s Valley of the Arts are enough reason to visit.
Everything from pub meals to coffee shops, cafes in memorable venues and locations to award winning wineries and top class
restaurants are here to be enjoyed.
Follow in the footsteps of the artists of the Heidelberg School, Australia’s first significant art movement.
This interpretive trail includes 57 signs, providing information on the individual artists with reproductions of their work located close to where they painted or lived.
