Melbourne Arts Precinct Transformation Tour
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The Melbourne Arts Precinct Transformation is a city-defining project delivering The Fox: NGV Contemporary, a new gallery dedicated to contemporary art and design, significant upgrades to Arts Centre Melbourne’s Theatres Building, and a new 18,000-square-metre urban garden, Laak Boorndap, for people to enjoy.
The project will transform the arts precinct, attracting millions more visitors, providing better connectivity from St Kilda Road to Southbank, providing more food and drink options, providing more garden space for health and wellbeing and cementing Melbourne’s reputation as an international cultural capital.
What's On
Join us for tour through the Melbourne Arts Precinct and explore how a single continuous arts, civic and cultural precinct will be brought to life through a major rejuvenation.
Participants will visit key sites that are part of the transformation and hear about the latest updates from experts involved with the project. It will provide the rare opportunity to go behind-the-scenes in the Precinct to learn more about exciting upcoming changes, including the new urban garden Laak Boorndap, significant upgrades to Arts Centre Melbourne and the new contemporary art and design gallery The Fox: NGV Contemporary.
A booking fee waiver for this program is made possible thanks to Melbourne Arts Precinct.
Images: (1) Concept-only render. An aerial view from the Yarra River of the Melbourne Arts Precinct, showing the new garden extending from Hamer Hall to the new The Fox: NGV Contemporary. Render by Darcstudio. (2) Concept-only render. A view of Laak Boorndap between Hamer Hall and Arts Centre Melbourne’s Theatres Building, featuring the existing artwork 'Forward Surge'. Render by Darcstudio. (3) Concept-only render. Laak Boorndap has been designed to flourish year-round, ensuring it is beautiful and ever-changing, and continually fostering biodiversity. It will feature a program of performances, workshops and events. Render by Darcstudio. (4) Concept-only render. People enjoying the gardens and public art in Laak Boorndap. Laak Boorndap will be home to artwork commissions by First Peoples and sculptures from the (5) collections of the NGV and Arts Centre Melbourne. Render by Darcstudio. Concept-only render. Major upgrades to the Arts Centre Melbourne Theatres Building. Render by NH Architects.
Important Details
Tour/event summary information
Saturday 26 July + Sunday 27 July
Tours run 10am, 11:30am + 1pm
Running for 60 minutes in groups of 14
Bookings
Bookings required—$7 booking fee waived
First release tickets: 12pm Wednesday 2 July
Second release tickets: 10am Saturday 5 July
Meeting Point
Meet at the Forward Surge sculpture on the lawn between Hamer Hall and the Arts Centre Melbourne Theatres Building. This tour will conclude in the NGV Garden.
Accessibility
Auslan interpreter available on request
If you require an Auslan interpreter, please email hello@mapco.vic.gov.au by 2pm, Wednesday 16 July, so we can book an external contractor.
