South Melbourne Town Hall, Victorian heritage town hall in South Melbourne, Australia

South Melbourne Town Hall is a town hall featuring grand Victorian Academic Classical design with Corinthian columns, a central portico, and a multi-stage clock tower. The structure originally combined multiple municipal services within its walls and served a broad public function from the outset.

The building opened in 1880 to house multiple city services including the town council, police, post office, and fire brigade. The clock tower was added a year later and has become a defining landmark on the skyline.

The building housed the Australian National Academy of Music from 1994 until 2020, when safety concerns closed it and the academy moved to the Abbotsford Convent. Multicultural Arts Victoria, the state's peak arts body for cultural diversity, made the hall its home in 2012. The 1905 Boer War memorial stands in the curved park in front.

The whole building closed in 2020 over safety concerns after part of the internal roof collapsed in 2018, and repairs were expected to take years. ANAM moved to the Abbotsford Convent during the closure, so the hall is not open to visitors. The 1905 Boer War memorial and the curved forecourt park on Bank Street can still be seen from outside.

The memorial in the curved forecourt park is a Boer War monument of 1905, not a fountain, and it is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register together with the hall and the park itself. Look for it at the front of the elevated site on Bank Street.