Museum and Art Gallery of Tasmania

A visit to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery is a great opportunity to get acquainted with both the artistic heritage of the Aborigines of the island and the colonial period in its history.

The museum opened in Hobart in 1843 and since then its collection has grown considerably and become more diverse. If the first exhibits were devoted exclusively to the life and culture of the Aborigines, now it reflects the nature of the island, the development of industry and crafts, and magnificent works of art of the colonists.

The collection of furniture made of Juan pine – endemic to Tasmania, a tree with unique properties, suitable for building ships, deserves attention. All 54 exhibits are made in the same style, Georgian, and have no analogues in the world. The museum has an excellent collection of silverware. By the way, almost all of them were executed by exiles who served their sentences outside England.

The interactive Ice Exhibition will help you discover the secrets of Antarctica, and you can see what the extinct Tasmanian tiger looked like in the zoological section, which is especially loved by small visitors.

The special pride of the museum is the collection of the Herbarium, the first samples of which belong to the beginning of the XIX century. This is the most complete collection of Tasmanian plants, allowing you to imagine their evolution over time and ranges of growth.