Views from the top of Melbourne's hallowed sporting ground will soon be possible, with plans for a 70-metre 'sky walk' and a possible zipline.

You can walk around, under it, through it ... and soon you will be able to walk over it.

A A$2.55 million (NZ$2.75m) skywalk and possible zipline will soon be built on the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Sports fans, locals and tourists will be able to climb up to 70 metres above the hallowed ground and walk across the western, city-end roof.

A diagram showing the proposed zipline route over the MCG.

It will give visitors unrivalled views of Melbourne's world-class sporting precinct, the CBD and beyond.

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The Melbourne Cricket Club is yet to finalise the design, but one idea includes a zipline that would take the more daring among us flying from the city-end scoreboard to the other side of the stadium on Punt Road.

Construction of the attraction, which is being billed as a world-first stadium experience, is expected to start this year and take about 12 months.

The federal government will tip in A$650,000 (NZ$700,000), while the MCC will pick up the rest of the bill. There's been no word yet on how much it will cost visitors to take the climb.

The MCG skywalk is one of six major tourism projects in the Australian state of Victoria that will receive federal funding under the Tourism Demand Driver Infrastructure programme.

Victoria Sport Minister John Eren believed the walk around the iconic sports stadium could rival Sydney's Harbour Bridge walk, and could be a thrilling end to a tour of the National Sports Museum.

"The MCG is renowned as one of the world's top stadiums. This new access will be unprecedented, and will offer great views of the best of everything Melbourne offers," Eren said.

Meanwhile, the state government was establishing Visit Victoria, the new entity charged with safeguarding tourism and major events. Tourism contributed about A$21-billion (NZ$22.6b) annually to Victoria's economy.