Melbourne’s grandiose Royal Exhibition Building was built in Carlton Gardens in the late 1880s and was the first Australian building to get a Unesco World Heritage Listing.
But the dome promenade at its very top hasn’t been accessible to the public for nearly 100 years – since the Melbourne International Exhibition, the first official World’s Fair in the southern hemisphere, just before the turn of the 20th century.
That’s about to change, though. From Saturday October 28, the building’s dome promenade deck will open for tours, with a view of the city unseen for a century.
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SIGN UP“I am delighted that we can at last welcome visitors to Melbourne’s newest ‘oldest attraction’ … and share the building’s stories from the near and distant past,” Museums Victoria CEO and director Lynley Crosswell said in a statement.
“We are especially pleased to be opening during springtime, offering visitors a spectacular view of Carlton Gardens in full bloom and an outlook over Melbourne not experienced for nearly 100 years.”
The Royal Exhibition Building’s dome promenade opens on Saturday October 29. Book online.
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