The ANZ Banking Museum — Attraction in Melbourne

Fun fact: The ANZ Banking Museum is not just a museum, it's housed inside a fully operational ANZ branch, so you can stop in to do real banking and explore its historic exhibits.

Located in Melbourne’s iconic “Gothic Bank”, built between 1883 and 1887 as the English, Scottish & Australian Chartered Bank, the building is one of Australia's finest examples of Gothic Revival architecture, designed by William Wardell.

After a two‑year restoration completed in 2024, the bank reopened as a specialist hub offering full banking services alongside its Banking Museum. The museum, free and open to both ANZ customers and the general public, is self‑guided and located on the lower ground floor.

Inside you’ll discover a rich trove of banking artifacts, manuscripts, early ledgers (including one with the signature of Saint Mary MacKillop), antique calculators, moneyboxes, and gold‑rush era equipment: all drawn from over 170 years of archival materials.

So it’s true: it’s the most stunning bank I’ve ever been to: where you can truly bank within a piece of Melbourne’s living architectural and...

When you are in Melbourne, do spend some time to visit the ANZ bank Banking Museum at 380 Collins Street. One of the finest Gothic-Rivival building in Australia.

It showcases Australia's banking heritage through displays of currency, money boxes, office machines, firearms, gold-mining equipment and uniforms.

Opening Hours : 9am to 4pm Monday to Thursday and closes at 5pm on Friday with actual banking and tellers and reception within the exhibition hall.

Entry is free and visitors can self-explore any time within opening hours. The friendly ANZ concierge is available to guide you.

Tours of the Verdon Chambers (former residence) and Safe Deposit Building are not available...

It's a very small but interesting museum of Australia's banking heritage, particularly the history of ANZ, beginning from the days when Indigenous Australians traded with European settlers. It has a collection of banknotes and coins from the 1800s, moneyboxes, banking scales, and ANZ typewriters and calculating machines through the ages.

One big negative for me is that the lighting inside is terrible. Being so dark makes it very difficult to read much of the display information and thus negates much of the benefits and enjoyment of the museum.

It's in the lower ground floor of the magnificent 'Gothic Bank' at 380 Collins Street, Melbourne. You'll see a blue banner at...