Prison Break Explorers: Family Tour

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Prison Break Explorers: Family Tour

Cultural and Theme Tours
5 min guests
30 max guests

Highlights

  • Explore the haunting corridors of Pentridge Prison, uncovering stories of daring escape attempts and notorious characters.
  • Engage your family's curiosity as you navigate H Division, learning about life inside one of Australia's most infamous prisons.
  • Follow your guide to key historical spots, enriching your understanding of the prison's colourful past and escape attempts.
  • Enjoy a family-friendly experience with facilities like carparks and public toilets, ensuring a comfortable visit for all.

Escape with the kids on Pentridge Prison Tour’s family tour, and discover the history of Australia’s most infamous prison.

Suitable for children of all ages, this tour will take families inside H Division and the wider precinct and learn about real-life escape attempts, and then using their skills of deduction, find a way out.

Along the way, your tour guide will visit key spots around Pentridge Prison that witnessed daring, and sometimes disastrous escape attempts, share stories of some of Pentridge Prison’s colourful characters, and learn more about what life was like on the inside.

This family tour lasts approximately one hour.

Tour details

  • Cultural and Theme Tours
  • Customised
  • Independent / Self-guided Tour
  • On-site Experience
  • Small Group Tour
  • Basic
  • On demand

Features

Service facilities

  • Carpark
  • Family Friendly
  • Public Toilet
Accessibility

Disabled access available, contact operator for details.

Operation information

Pentridge Prison Tours

Experience one of Melbourne’s newest attractions, Pentridge Prison Tours. Uncover the stories and complex history of Pentridge Prison, Australia’s longest operating and one of the country’s harshest prisons.

From the time spent inside by some of Australia’s most notorious criminals, like Ned Kelly and Mark ‘Chopper’ Read, to the anecdotes and lived experiences of thousands of people over several generations; the National Trust’s explorative tours will immerse you in a shared history of unsettling truths.

Led by expert guides and with cutting-edge technology, the National Trust offers a range of tours for all ages, each uncovering a different aspect of life inside the Prison. Family tours run weekly and daily during Victorian School Holidays.

The Indigenous history of the site is at the forefront the Pentridge Prison Tour experience, with National Trust’s expert guides introducing what it means to have had a prison on Wurundjeri Country both for the community and the individuals incarcerated at Pentridge Prison.

Tags

  • History & Heritage

Accreditations

  • Quality Tourism Accreditation
  • Sustainable Tourism Accreditation by ATIC

Memberships

  • National Trust
  • Victoria Tourism Industry Council

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