Melbourne's best weekend markets

Melbourne's market culture is anchored by the Queen Victoria Market's 140-year operating history but has expanded into a network of specialist, neighbourhood, and artisan markets that together provide the most comprehensive weekend market programme of any Australian city, servicing every consumption preference from heritage produce to designer handmade goods.

Queen Victoria Market — the UNESCO World Heritage-nominated market on the city's northern edge operates Tuesday to Sunday and provides the full-service market in the heritage sheds: the meat hall, the deli hall, the produce sheds, and the weekend general merchandise that has served Melbourne's multicultural population for over a century.

Camberwell Sunday Market — the car park market in the inner eastern suburb is Melbourne's best secondhand and vintage market, with the 400-plus stallholders providing the record crates, the vintage clothing, the secondhand books, and the antique furniture that the early Sunday morning Camberwell ritual has become for Melbourne's design and vintage consumer.

Prahran Market — the Chapel Street market provides the premium produce focus that the Queen Vic's scale makes difficult, with the specialty food merchants, the international deli section, the artisan baker stalls, and the upmarket food preparation product retailers creating the Saturday morning destination for the South Yarra and Prahran food consumer.

Rose Street Artists' Market, Fitzroy — the Saturday and Sunday designer market in Rose Street provides the handmade goods, the independent jewellery designers, the ceramics, and the art print market that the inner-north creative community sustains as Melbourne's highest-quality handmade goods market and the correct destination for the unique gift the commercial retail sector does not stock.

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