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The White Hat Guide to Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne

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Over the years White Hat has become recognised as THE place to list and find markets in Melbourne & Victoria and our markets pages consistently receive over 1,000 visitors a day with over 3,000 a day at weekends. Unlike many websites which merely LIST markets, White Hat VISITS markets as witnessed by the photographs. Although we visit hundreds of markets every year we can never cover all of them so please let us know if any of our information is out of date. With details on over 400 markets, users regularly tell us that the White Hat listing is the best and most comprehensive source of markets in Victoria available either on the web or in print.

Queen Victoria Market
cnr Elizabeth & Victoria Streets
Melbourne

Trading Hours:

  • Tues & Thur. 6am - 2pm
  • Fri 6am - 6pm (general merchandise to 4 pm)
  • Sat 6am - 3pm
  • Sun 9am - 4pm
  • Closed - Anzac Day, Good Friday,
    Melbourne Cup Day, Christmas Day,
    Boxing Day, New Years Day, Australia Day

More information at www.qvm.com.au

The Queen Victoria Market is aptly named because she is the queen not just of Melbourne markets but of Australian markets.

If you only have time to visit one place in Melbourne, then it should be the Vic Market. But try to visit while all the produce stalls are operating (Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday mornings) because they make up the real heart of the market.

At the Vic Market you will immediately see a representative cross-section of Melbourne's population - its ethnic mix, dress styles, language and most of all their attitude to life. Faced with such animated and good-natured variety, it is hard to maintain for long that there is only one 'right' way to do things; that there is only one self-evident religion; that enmities from old countries should be continued in the new; that being called 'love' or 'darl' is sexually oppressive; that the working week that just passed is really that important.
Cooking Class & Gourmet Food Tour

Cooking Class &
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The Vic Market brings city people in touch with earthy realities. It is very clear that meat comes from dead animals; that vegetables are grown in dirt; that sweat and energy is part of commerce; and that Collingwood will win the Grand Final this year.

It is truly the melting pot of Melbourne - Toorak matrons, tattooed labourers, politically correct families from the leafy suburbs, people from all walks of life.

Listen to the spruiking. Much of the language comes direct from the 1930s. Or maybe earlier, when the Sentimental Bloke of C. J. Dennis' poems went down to the rabbit stall at the Vic Market to meet his mate Ginger Mick ("e 'umps the bunnies when he toils does Mick").

Buy yourself sausage in a roll from the Bratwurst Shop and sit outside and watch Melbourne pass by. Particularly the children who believe that this is what life is like - only to be surprised when they move away from Melbourne.

Garryowen tells us:

"The first men hanged in the colony were the two Van Diemonian black murderers, on the 20th January, and the next batch three white bushrangers, 28th June of that year. The condemned burial-ground was close by the north-eastern corner of the public cemetery, outside the fence. Herein were deposited the remains of the blackfellows, and nothing further was heard of them for more than five months, when they were joined by the white fellows, and shortly after, on certain nights of the week the most unearthly doings were indulged in by the ghosts of the five defunct individuals, who had the outside graveyard to themselves, but who, so soon as the night was well in, jumped out of their graves and plunged into vagaries of a most astounding character, a species of pedestrianism which might be termed a combination of corroboree and hornpipe.

The blackfellows in opossum rugs, and the whites in shrouds, romped about in wild confusion, kicking and sparring at each other, prancing along by the northern boundary, westward to where the Melbourne pound was situated, and back to the starting point .... Persons engaged here at unseasonable hours declared that they witnessed such exhibitions."

Christmas Eve this year falls upon a Wednesday and the Queen Victoria Market will be open.

The trading hours for the Christmas/New Year period for 2008/09 are:

  • Monday 22 December 2008 - CLOSED
  • Tuesday 23 December 2008 - OPEN, 6am – 2pm
  • Wednesday 24 December 2008, Christmas Eve - OPEN, 6am – 3pm (or until stocks run out)
  • Thursday 25 December 2008, Christmas Day - CLOSED
  • Friday 26 December 2008, Boxing Day - CLOSED
  • Saturday 27 December 2008 - OPEN, 6am – 3pm
  • Sunday 28 December 2008 - OPEN, 6am – 4pm
  • Tuesday 30 December 2008 - OPEN, 6am – 2pm
  • Wednesday 31 December 2008, New Year's Eve - CLOSED
  • Thursday 1 January 2009, New Year's Day - CLOSED

Queen Victoria Night Market

A bustling night market with food, wine, craft and other stalls and entertainment. Operates over the summer months on Wednesdays (except Christmas Eve and New Years Eve)
5.30 to 10pm, Wednesays 25 Nov 09 to 25 Feb 10

Queen Victoria Market -

Opera in the Market

See the K Shed transformed into an opera house with O A stars- Tiffany Speight and Rosario La Spina in a night of Puccini with 150 voices and the Australian Scholars with the MYO conducted by Benjamin Northey. Food and wine -5.45pm, concert - 7.45pm. Tickets- RACV holiday line 13 13 29 or AME 9819 7166. Corporate packages St Vincent's hospital Foundation - 9288 3365
22nd & 24th March 2010

K Shed - Queen Victoria Market -

from $87 - $170

Where is the Queen Victoria Market?

Click on the Queen Victoria Market link to the right of the map. Use the controls to zoom in or out on the map or change to satellite view.


 

The White Hat Quiz

  • Several people who have worked at the Victoria Market have gone on to create an impact on the world stage. Name one.
  • Where in the market can you see fossils that are millions of years old?

To find the answers to questions like these ask a White Hat Accredited Guide or subscribe to our free newsletter where similar questions and answers are provided each week. For a sample of previous questions see The White Hat Quiz.

Our rating of Queen Victoria Market

Our rating:
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Please note that the above are the official trading hours. At many markets, a number of stalls close early, so you need to be there well before official closing time.

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Please note that the above are the official trading hours. At many markets, a number of stalls close early, so you need to be there well before official closing time.

See also:

Sell your products online on White Hat

White Hat has the most comprehensive listing of markets in Victoria and has thousands of visitors a day. Why not sell your product online direct to these customers?

More information

White Hat works hard to make information on these pages current and correct. However with many thousands of entries, much of it changing daily, errors may occur. Always verify the information by using the phone numbers supplied with each event or venue before making a special trip or using this information for any other purpose. If you believe some information is incorrect, please contact us at corrections@whitehat.com.au and we will attempt to verify or change the information
DISCLAIMER: White Hat makes no claim as to the accuracy of this information and takes no responsibility for incorrect or incomplete information  or for actions based on the information in these pages, and accepts no liability to any person or organisation for the information contained in these pages.
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