Find the
weirdness in one of the
world's most liveable cities
Melbourne Peculiar
Melbourne Peculiar
Melbourne Peculiar is a guide to everything that's
a little bit odd about Melbourne.
Apple devices
Android devices
About Melbourne Peculiar
pe·cu·liar (adj.)
1. Unusual; eccentric; strange; odd
2. Distinctive; individual; special
3. One's own; a sole or exclusive characteristic or property.
Melbourne Peculiar is a guide to the things about Melbourne that are a little bit odd or distinctive.
This city is famed for its culinary delights, artistic life, adventurous architecture and fabulous fashion. It's also loved for its eccentricities and secrets. This app aims to reveal oddities even many Melburnians didn't know existed.
In its 120+ entries, find out about the secret anti-consumer message hidden in plain sight in a shopping arcade. Learn about ghosts, macabre history, the graves of strange inventors, the weird public art, some unusual dishes for the jaded palate and the kitschy architectural touches.
Melbourne Peculiar aims to explore things that are distinctive or strange about this great city – from the faintly odd to the positively arcane.
- Narrelle M Harris
What's
in
the
Melbourne Peculiar app?
For the price of a cup of excellent Melbourne coffee, you will get 121 entries about some of Melbourne's oddest features.
Melbourne Peculiar allows you to search by category, cost or neighbourhood. Each entry includes a slideshow and descriptive text. If the entry is for a place you can visit, maps will guide you to the peculiar wonders.
Melbourne Peculiar has 121 entries and over 600 photos! The April 2012 edition includes:
For the price of a cup of excellent Melbourne coffee, you will get 121 entries about some of Melbourne's oddest features.
Melbourne Peculiar allows you to search by category, cost or neighbourhood. Each entry includes a slideshow and descriptive text. If the entry is for a place you can visit, maps will guide you to the peculiar wonders.
Melbourne Peculiar has 121 entries and over 600 photos! The April 2012 edition includes:
- Cemeteries
- Melbourne's Elvis Memorial
- The resting place of the inventor of Vegemite
- Entertainment & Events
- Strange
puppets
- The zombie shuffle
- Food & Drink
- Honey made on Melbourne rooftops
- Truffle oil and spam for breakfast
- Ghosts
- Ghosts in theatres and bars
- Haunted tours
- Literature
- Trams on Twitter
- Literary
locales
- Museums and Galleries
- Percy Grainger's unusually personal collection
- NGV:
fingers in the waterwall and lying on the floor
- Outside Melbourne
- Tours, sculpture parks and chestnut beer
- Ned Kelly
- Peculiar History
- Crime tours
- A former morgue
- Peculiar Places
- A secret message in a shopping arcade
- A mirror ball in an alley
- Public Art
- A cow up a tree
- Graffiti or
street art?
- Shopping
- Subversive books
- Macabre jewellery
and more!
(You
might
also enjoy the companion
apps Melbourne
Literary, Melbourne
Historical and Melbourne
Getaways)
Narrelle M
Harris is a Melbourne-based writer
with four novels, one play and several short stories under her belt to
date. The
Opposite Of LifeShe also writes in the business sector and spends time dreaming up new iPhone apps to develop. Narrelle created Melbourne Literary and Melbourne Peculiar in association with Sutro Media.
Narrelle lives in the city centre of Melbourne, Australia, with her husband, Tim Richards, and their apartment-bound cat Petra.
Mortal Words Blog
Website
Email Narrelle