Showbags
Essential Information
Contact Us:
Show Hotline: 1300 65 65 47
Email: customerservice@rasv.com.au
Address
The Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria
Melbourne Showground's
Epsom Road Ascot Vale
VIC 3032
Telephone: (03) 9281 7444
Fax: (03) 9281 7592
Show Dates
The 2011 Royal Melbourne Show runs from Saturday 24 September to Tuesday 4 October.
About the Royal Melbourne Show
With heaps of free activities and entertainment, there's nothing like the value of the 2011 Royal Melbourne Show. Animals & livestock. Award-winning food & wine. Arts & crafts. Carnival rides, showbags, free live entertainment, spectacular fireworks and much more. Bringing the best of the country to the city, for sheer fun, discovery and wonder, there's nothing like the Royal Melbourne Show.
The Show has been a signature event in Melbourne since 1848, when it started as a ploughing competition in Moonee Ponds. Organised by the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria (RASV), the Show is Victoria's largest and longest running annual public entertainment event with 2011 being the 156th Show. It is iconic in its own right, attracting around half a million visitors each year.
While there's no doubt the Show has grown with the times, expanding to eleven days and nights jam-packed with non-stop entertainment and activities, it still retains its connection with the land, featuring some of the largest and most prestigious exhibitions of animals and rural life in the southern hemisphere.
The Show provides patrons with a chance to experience the very best Victoria has to offer in agricultural competitions and displays, rural lifestyle, leisure activities, entertainment, food, wine, horticulture, showbags, rides and more.
About the Melbourne Showgrounds
In addition to the Royal Melbourne Show, the RASV manages the Melbourne Showgrounds, Melbourne's largest and most versatile indoor/outdoor event venue. With stylish new purpose built exhibition and event space, meticulously restored heritage buildings and an abundance of outdoor showcase spaces over 19 hectares, the Melbourne Showgrounds offers space and versatility like no other venue for exhibitions, tradeshows, conferences and events. Visit the Melbourne Showgrounds website www.melbourneshowgrounds.com.
The Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria (RASV)
The Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria (RASV) is a member-based, not-for-profit organization that is dedicated to supporting excellence in Victorian agriculture. Encouraging industry development and benchmarking standards, the RASV rewards and recognises excellence by showcasing the best Victorian produce through its prestigious events, competitions and associations in agricultural and rural communities.
In addition to Victoria's largest community event, the Royal Melbourne Show, the RASV conducts several other leading industry events, including the Australian International Beer Awards, Royal Melbourne Wine Show and the Royal Melbourne Horse Show.
The RASV is also responsible for management of the Melbourne Showground's, Victoria's largest and most versatile indoor/outdoor exhibition and event venue. The venue offers space and flexibility like no other for exhibitions, trade shows, film production, concerts and other events.
