Group tours

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Gabrielle Cavanough (centre) with special exhibition guides (from left) Victoria Warne, Margot Harper, Flora Neet and Jill Mirams in Federation Court , 2006.
© National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

NGV Voluntary Guides

NGV Voluntary Guides conduct free exhibition and collection tours almost every day of the year at both NGV Australia and NGV International. Free tours are listed in NGV What’s On calendar.

Booked Tours

NGV Voluntary Guides also provide booked guided tours. Booked tours can include special exhibitions, collection tours, tours in foreign languages, and visual describing tours and are popular with community, corporate and special interest groups.

Find out more about Guided Group tours

Voluntary Guides Visits

The NGV Voluntary Guides outreach program Voluntary Guide Visits is a free program that offers the wider community, particularly those who are unable to visit the NGV locations, access to NGV collection highlights and selected special exhibitions.

The Voluntary Guides travel into Melbourne metropolitan local community to present illustrated talks via a multimedia presentation. Find out more about Voluntary Guides Out & About Visits

History

The Voluntary Guides of the National Gallery of Victoria was established in 1967 with the approval of the NGV Council of Trustees. It operated with the expressed aim of providing support to the NGV by assisting the community in understanding and appreciating the NGV and its collections. Since 1968, the guides have provided a link between the NGV and the public, and played an important role in encouraging and deepening the interest of visitors in NGV collections and exhibitions through guided tours and related guiding activities.

Become an NGV Voluntary Guide

The NGV Voluntary Guides recruit new guides every 3-5 years, depending on need and demand. The 2010 intake of guides is complete.