North of Bourke Street, running parallel, is Little
Bourke Street, with the majestic Law Courts by William
Street at the western end, and Chinatown in the east
between Exhibition and Swanston streets. Australia's oldest
continuous Chinese settlement, Melbourne's Chinatown began with a
few boarding-houses in the 1850s (when the goldrushes attracted
Chinese people in droves, many from the Pearl River Delta near
Hong Kong) and grew as the gold began to run out and Chinese
fortune-seekers headed back to the city. Today the area still has
a low-rise, narrow-laned, nineteenth-century character, and it's
packed with Chinese restaurants and stores. The Museum of
Chinese Australian History, in an old warehouse on Cohen
Place, is concerned particularly with the Chinese role in the
foundation and development of Melbourne. The museum organizes
two-hour guided tours of the building and Chinatown Tours require
a minimum of four people, and bookings two or three days in
advance are preferred (03 9662 2888).
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North of Bourke Street, running parallel, is Little
Bourke Street, with the majestic Law Courts by William
Street at the western end, and Chinatown in the east
between Exhibition and Swanston streets. Australia's oldest
continuous Chinese settlement, Melbourne's Chinatown began with a
few boarding-houses in the 1850s (when the goldrushes attracted
Chinese people in droves, many from the Pearl River Delta near
Hong Kong) and grew as the gold began to run out and Chinese
fortune-seekers headed back to the city. Today the area still has
a low-rise, narrow-laned, nineteenth-century character, and it's
packed with Chinese restaurants and stores. The Museum of
Chinese Australian History, in an old warehouse on Cohen
Place, is concerned particularly with the Chinese role in the
foundation and development of Melbourne. The museum organizes
two-hour guided tours of the building and Chinatown Tours require
a minimum of four people, and bookings two or three days in
advance are preferred (03 9662 2888).
