Getting here

We're located at 328 Swanston Street, Melbourne.

Public Transport

The Library is a short distance from Melbourne Central Station and the connected State Library Station. There are two station entrances/exits: one on Swanston Street, at the corner of La Trobe Street, and one on Franklin Street, at the corner of Swanston Street.
The State Library Station Swanston Street concourse is connected to Melbourne Central Station for changing between Metro Tunnel and City Loop services only.
Melbourne Central Station is directly opposite the Library's Swanston Street entrance. Regional travellers can transfer to metropolitan trains at Southern Cross or North Melbourne stations.
State Library Station directly services the Cranbourne, Pakenham and Sunbury lines, via the Metro Tunnel.

The Library is located on Melbourne’s most serviced tram route, the Swanston Street corridor (stop: Melbourne Central Station/Swanston Street).
Tram routes 1, 3, 5, 6, 12, 16, 64, 67, 72 and 109 service this stop. Tram routes 30 and 35 service stop #6 on La Trobe Street.

Both stops outside the Library provide level access to low-floor trams. However, currently only route 109 to the Library are serviced by low-floor trams and routes 5, 6, 16, 58, 72 are serviced by a mix of low-floor and high-floor trams.
You can use Yarra Tram's Route Guides to plan your journey and find accessible stops.

See Public Transport Victoria for more information.

There are separated bike lanes in both directions on Swanston and La Trobe streets. You'll find bike racks on and near the corner of Swanston and La Trobe streets, Swanston and Little Lonsdale streets.
See the City of Melbourne website for more information.

The Library does not have on-site parking, but there is paid street parking on La Trobe Street and several pay car parks close by.
The closest carpark is the QV Melbourne Carpark, which has 1,500 parking spaces. This includes accessible parking spaces on all levels, parents’ parking on Level B1, lift and travelator access from all levels, and direct access to Lonsdale Street, Little Lonsdale Street, Swanston Street and Russell Street.
Melbourne Central Carpark has 880 parking spaces.

There are disabled parking permit spots:

On Little Lonsdale Street, between Swanston and Russell streets, near the forecourt, there are two 2-hour disability parking permit spaces.
On La Trobe Street, outside the State Library Conference Centre, there are three 2-hour disability parking permit spaces.
On the west side of Russell Street, north of the La Trobe Street intersection, outside RMIT Building 20, there is one 2-hour disability parking permit space.

Disability permit parking spaces are marked on the map below, marked with a P logo.

Wheelchair accessible entrances are marked with a black and white wheelchair logo. Please note that the map is not shown to scale.

Swanston Street Welcome Zone: use the ramp at La Trobe Street, near the corner of Swanston Street.
Russell Street Welcome Zone: use Entry 5 via La Trobe Street, near the corner of Russell Street.
Events in the Conference Centre and Theatrette: access via Entry 3 on La Trobe Street.
Cafés: enter Guild Cafe via Entry 5, La Trobe Street. Enter Biblio via Entry 2 on La Trobe Street.