The William Barak Bridge is a five hundred twenty-five meter long pedestrian footbridge stretching between Birrarung Marr and the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Its steel form traverses electrified rail lines and busy roads to connect the…
Birrarung Indigenous Heritage Walk
This walk guides you along the Yarra River to experience Wurundjeri heritage through historic bridges, public artworks, and native parklands.
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1. William Barak Bridge
2. Tanderrum Bridge
The Tanderrum Bridge is recognizable by the fine, rhythmic filigree of painted tubular steel rods that wrap its underside and edges, creating a slender, sculptural profile. Completed in twenty-seventeen, the bridge stretches three hundred…
3. Birrarung Marr
Birrarung Marr is an eight-hectare urban park defined by its stepped, artificial terraces that descend toward the north bank of the Yarra River. Opened in two thousand two, the park occupies a site that for over a century was occupied by…
4. Koorie Heritage Trust
The Koorie Heritage Trust occupies the Yarra Building, a structure that sits directly on the banks of the Birrarung, or Yarra River, within Federation Square. Its presence here marked a shift, bringing First Peoples' culture from the…
5. Sandridge Bridge
The Sandridge Bridge is a steel girder structure that crosses the Yarra River at an unusually sharp angle. Completed in eighteen eighty-eight, it was one of the first railway bridges in Melbourne to use steel rather than iron. The bridge…
6. Enterprize Park
Enterprize Park lies on the north bank of the Yarra River, tucked between the Queens Bridge and the Kings Street Bridge. You can identify the site by the thirty large wooden poles standing upright near the water, which are recycled…