Check when your favourite places are re-opening, via our opening hours page. For our updated Conditions of Entry, please see our COVID-19 updates page to plan your next visit.
Conditions of Entry
The safety of our visitors and staff remains our top priority. We have put measures in place to protect the health and wellbeing of everybody and conditions of entry will apply to all visitors and staff. Please review our updated Conditions of Entry for more information.
Tasma Terrace gift shop will remain closed until further notice, but you can purchase merchandise via our online shop.
For general enquiries please contact our customer service team on (03) 9656 9889.
Gardens: Open daily 10am – 5pm.
Mansion: currently closed.
The Gruffalo Trail: Open daily 10am – 5pm
Trust Makers’ Market: Select Sundays, 10am to 3pm (please note the mansion is closed on market days).
For more details visit: www.ripponleaestate.com.au
Portable Iron Houses: Open on Sunday 6 March from 1pm to 4pm.
Polly Woodside: Sunday 23 and 30 January, 10am till 4pm
Old Melbourne Gaol: Open Wednesday to Sunday 10am – 5pm (plus Tuesday 28 December).
The Cluedo Experience: Open Wednesday to Sunday 10am to 5pm
Night tours: Select evenings from 8.30pm.
For more details visit: www.oldmelbournegaol.com.au
Como Gardens: Open Mon to Sat 9am – 5pm, Sun 10am – 5pm
Como Shop: Open Wednesday to Sunday from 10am – 3.30pm
Doll House: Miniature Worlds of Wonder
Open daily from 10am to 4pm (last entry at 3pm)
Labassa: Open every third Sunday from 10am to 4pm.
Upcoming Open Day
Labassa: Through the Eye of a Lens
Sunday 16 January 2022
10am – 4.30pm (last entry at 3.30pm)
Explore Labassa’s grand architecture and decorative features that have inspired generations of amateur and professional photographers
Labassa’s grand architecture and exquisite decorative features have drawn generations of amateur and professional photographers. See this extraordinary mansion through the eye of the lens with a presentation of works by some of Labassa’s most significant photographers. Bring your own camera and take a guided photographic tour to get that ‘wow’ shot. Join the hunt for Labassa’s quirky ‘critters’ and capture them on camera.
La Trobe’s Cottage: Open Sundays 1pm to 4pm (last guided tour 3.30pm) from October to April.
We are also open Wednesday 26 January.
Government House: From 7 February, tours will take place on the first Monday of the month from 11am to 12pm.
Combined tours of Government House and La Trobe’s Cottage are available all year. Additional fees apply. Please email bookings@nattrust.com.au for the availability of these tours.
Waller House: Closed until further notice
Group tours available by appointment, email bookings@nattrust.com.au
Barwon Park: Barwon Park will re-open on Saturday 22 January.
Open Wednesday and Sunday, 11am to 4pm.
Tours run on the hour between 11am and 3pm.
Group tours available by appointment. Please email bookings@nattrust.com.au
Closed Australia Day
Trust Contemporary Exhibition
Saturday 22 January – Sunday 24 April
Discover Barwon Park through the creative response of 12 local artists, whose installations and artworks interrogate the site for Trust Contemporary: Barwon Park Reimagined.
The Heights: Closed from Sunday 28 November. The Heights will re-open on Wednesday 5 January.
The Summer of Mystery: Open Wednesday to Sunday, 11am to 4pm from 5 January to 27 February.
Closed Australia Day
From 6 March: Open Sundays from 1pm to 4pm.
Barwon Grange: Open Sundays from 1pm to 4pm.
Portarlington Mill: Closed until further notice
Mulberry Hill: re-opening on Sunday 13 March 2022, 10am to 4pm.
Group tours available by appointment, email bookings@nattrust.com.au
Endeavour Fern Gully: Open daily (the property is closed on days of Total Fire Ban). Please note that there is a diversion from the boardwalk due to works.
McCrae Homestead: Open Sundays, 11am- 4pm, last entry is at 3.30pm
Gulf Station: Open the first Thursday of each month 10am to 2pm.
Dow’s Pharmacy: Open on Fridays, 10am to 3pm.
Federal Standard Printing Works: Closed until further notice
Lake View House: Open on Saturdays, 11am to 2pm.
Mooramong Homestead: re-opening in early 2022.
Mott’s Cottage: Closed until further notice.
Mills Cottage: Closed until further notice.
