Pipemakers Park, Melbourne

#337 among attractions in Melbourne

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Pipemakers Park is located in the inner western suburbs of Melbourne in the city of Maribyrnong, on the western bank of the Maribyrnong River near Highpoint Shopping Centre. The park was created on the site of a former pipe works and meat preserving company, and retains historic buildings adapted to a museum. and interpreted industrial ruins. ()

Opened: 1984 (40 years ago)Visitors per year: ~750 pplElevation: 23 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 37°46'36"S, 144°53'42"E

Address

Gordon StreetMaribyrnongMelbourne 3032 Australia

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+61 419 154 265

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Pipemakers Park – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Footscray Park, Melbourne/Ascot Vale, Maribyrnong, Melbourne's Living Museum of the West.

1.3 miSE
Park
Footscray Park, Melbourne
33 min walk • Footscray Park is one of the largest and most intact examples of an Edwardian park in Australia. The 15-hectare park is located on the south bank of the Maribyrnong River in Footscray in Victoria.
1.1 miE
Area
Melbourne/Ascot Vale, Melbourne
30 min walk • Ascot Vale is an inner suburb 6 km north-west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in the local government area of the City of Moonee Valley.
0.6 miNW
Area
Maribyrnong, Melbourne
15 min walk • Maribyrnong is an inner suburb 8 km north-west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its local government area is the City of Maribyrnong, part of the River Ward. At the 2016 census, Maribyrnong had a population of 12,216.
~510 ftN
Museum, History museum
Melbourne's Living Museum of the West, Melbourne
3 min walk • Melbourne's Living Museum of the West is an ecomuseum and community social history museum in Melbourne's western suburb of Maribyrnong.
0.5 miNW
Shopping, Shopping centre
Highpoint Shopping Centre, Melbourne
14 min walk • Highpoint Shopping Centre is a super regional shopping centre located in Maribyrnong, Victoria, in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria.
1.4 miSE
Sport venue, Sport, Convention center
Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne
35 min walk • Flemington Racecourse is a major horse racing venue located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is most notable for hosting the Melbourne Cup, which is the world's richest handicap and the world's richest 3200-metre horse race.
1 miSE
Sport venue, Sport, Music venue
Melbourne Showgrounds, Melbourne
25 min walk • Melbourne Showgrounds is located in the inner north-western suburb of Ascot Vale, Victoria, Australia, next door to Flemington Racecourse.
1.2 miNW
Neighbourhood
Defence Explosive Factory Maribyrnong, Melbourne
32 min walk • Defence Explosive Factory Maribyrnong is a heritage-listed military installation and former munitions factory at Cordite Avenue, Maribyrnong, Victoria, Australia. It was added to the Australian Commonwealth Heritage List on 22 June 2004.
1 miSE
Winery, Wine tours
Jimmy Watson Memorial Trophy, Melbourne
25 min walk • The Jimmy Watson Memorial Trophy is the most prestigious and sought after wine award in Australia. The trophy is a memorial to Jimmy Watson, who established the iconic Jimmy Watson's Wine Bar in Lygon Street, Carlton, a suburb of Melbourne.
1.1 miN
Sport venue, Sport
Aberfeldie Park, Melbourne
28 min walk • Aberfeldie Park is a cricket ground in Essendon, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. It is the home of the Aberfeldie Park Cricket Club, and hosted several Rose Bowl series Women's One Day International cricket matches during the winter of 1984-85.
1.3 miSE
Restaurant
Melbourne Cup, Melbourne
35 min walk • The Melbourne Cup is Australia's most famous annual Thoroughbred horse race. It is a 3200-metre race for three-year-olds and over, conducted by the Victoria Racing Club on the Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Victoria as part of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival.