Open to visitors

A vibrant, mixed use precinct for the arts located at 35 Johnston St, Collingwood – a place of cultural and artistic production with an open interface to the public. Learn more about Collingwood Yards here.

What's happening

Collingwood Yards is home to over fifty organisations and artists' studios.

Licorice Pie

Record store

Tenant Profile

Andy Butler

Studio artist

Tenant Profile

Birrarangga Film Festival

Film Festival

Tenant Profile

Sitting down with Joe Alexander

Director of Music in Exile

Stories — June 2024

Courtyard Works

13 June - 20 June

Stories — June 2024

2024 Melbourne Design Week

at Collingwood Yards

Stories — May 2024

About us

Collingwood Yards is a new, permanent and affordable home for scores of artists and independent arts organisations working across music, visual arts, performance, digital media, creative industries and beyond. Situated across the former Collingwood Technical School campus, Collingwood Yards spans over 6500sqm. The site consists of three buildings and a leafy central courtyard and is located in one of Australia’s most diverse, rapidly transforming and dense inner city neighbourhoods.

“It's important for the artists we work with to be connected. There's creative community everywhere you look."

Sue Roff

Arts Project Australia

The place

This site, bordered by Johnston, Wellington, Perry and Bedford Streets, has a rich history of First Peoples cultural and creative practice. This history spans tens of thousands of years, far beyond the century-old buildings and First Peoples creative, artistic and community practice continues to be a vital part of Collingwood Yards today, and into the future.

A brick 3-storey building with an external steel staircase and a blue and pink mural

Our history

For over 140 years, the buildings of the former Collingwood Technical School on Johnston Street, Melbourne, has played an integral role in the well being of the local community. It has been a civic hub, including courthouse (1853), Council Chambers (1860) and the Collingwood Artisans’ School of Design (1871).

Interiors of a space with work tables and tools, black and white

Our organisation

Collingwood Yards is a new major contemporary arts incubator – a place where community and creativity meet and emerging culture begins.

Collingwood Yards is owned and managed by Contemporary Arts Precincts Ltd in trust for the public of Victoria. CAP has been deeded the site under conditions that ensure it remains a place of cultural production and creativity.