Makerspaces

Our Makerspaces are ideal spaces for upskilling your creative endeavours, entrepreneurial ideas and your home business. Across all of our Makerspaces, our friendly staff will do our best to assist you with the machines, provide information on further learning in creative topics, and use machinery safely.

Library at The Dock Makerspace offers a large, fully stocked workspace with our largest range of sewing equipment, featuring embroidery machines and an industrial sewing machine. With 6 desktop PCs full of creative tech software, 3D printers, laser cutting, electronics and soldering, and a large tools chest, this is a fantastic space to learn, design and prototype.

Kathleen Syme Makerspace doubles as a bookable space ideal for community groups, schools and small businesses. With a variety of tools and creative technology gear like a laser cutter, CnC (Computer Numerical Control) routing and 3D printers, this space encourages makers of all levels wanting to do, learn and create more.

narrm ngarrgu Makerspace offers our widest variety of machines in one space to support you in developing new skills, whether it's for fun or your next small business experiment. We've got CnC routing, laser cutting, airbrushing, embroidery and more. Come and see what our newest space has to offer!

Access information

To access equipment in our Makerspaces, you must:

• be a member of City of Melbourne Libraries
• have completed a safety induction
• be aged 15+. 

People aged under 15 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Our makerspaces