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This list of museums in Tasmania , Australia, contains museums that are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries.
- | Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts | Hobart | Library | Part of the State Library of Tasmania, 19th century period rooms, changing exhibits of art and history from its collections | |
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Australasian Golf Museum | Bothwell | Sport | website | ||
Avoca Museum | Avoca | Local | Located in a historic school building [1] | ||
Bark Mill Museum | Swansea | North West | History | website, 19th century life | |
Bass & Flinders Centre | George Town | North | Maritime | website | |
Beaconsfield Mine & Heritage Centre | Beaconsfield | Northern | Mining | Former gold mine with buildings and equipment | |
Bligh Museum of Pacific Exploration | Adventure Bay | History | website, located on Bruny Island, specialised collection relating to various explorations in the South Pacific | ||
Burnie Regional Art Gallery | Burnie | North West | Art | website, | |
Burnie Regional Museum | Burnie | North West | History | website, Features a Federation Street (complete with a saddler and boot maker's shop, a blacksmith's forge, printer, photographer and even a dentist), an extensive photographic collection and temporary exhibitions. | |
Carnegie Gallery | Hobart | Art | website, city art gallery | ||
Cascades Female Factory | Hobart | Prison | Former Australian workhouse for female convicts in the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land | ||
Channel Heritage Centre | Margate | Local | website, local history, industries, community life about the D'Entrecasteaux Channel surrounds | ||
Clarendon House (Evandale, Tasmania) | Evandale | Northern | Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia | |
Cygnet Living History Museum | Cygnet | Huon Valley | History | Cygnet Living History Museum At Collections Australia | |
Deloraine and District Folk Museum | Deloraine | Local | information, local pioneer history | ||
Design Centre Tasmania | Launceston | North | Art | website, area contemporary craft and design in wood | |
Derwent Valley Railway | New Norfolk | Railway | Heritage railway, currently not operational | ||
Devonport Maritime Museum and Historical Society | Devonport | North West | Maritime | website | |
Devonport Regional Gallery | Devonport | North West | Art | website | |
Don River Railway | Don | North West | Railway | Heritage railway and museum | |
Eaglehawk Neck Historic Site | Eaglehawk Neck | Military | website, restored officer's quarters and remains of former fort for the Port Arthur penal settlement | ||
Entally House | Hadspen | Historic house | Early 19th century estate house with collection of Regency furniture and fine silver, gardens, a greenhouse, a chapel, a coach house and stables | ||
Forest EcoCentre | Scottsdale | Natural history | website, operated by Forestry Tasmania, forestry and natural history of forests | ||
Franklin House (Launceston, Tasmania) | Launceston | Northern | Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia | |
Furneaux Museum | Flinders Island | Local | website | ||
Galley Museum | Queenstown | Mining | Photographs and relics of the mining communities of the past | ||
Geeveston Forest & Heritage Center | Geeveston | Forestry | Photographs, relics and interactive displays about early settlement and forestry in Far South Tasmania | ||
Grote Reber Museum | Cambridge | Science | Life and work of astronomer Grote Reber, tour of the Mount Pleasant Radio Observatory | ||
Home Hill | Devonport | North West | Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia, 20th century home of Prime Minister Joseph Lyons and Dame Enid Lyons | |
Huon Valley Apple and Heritage Museum | Grove | Agriculture | website, Tasmania 's apple industry | ||
Imaginarium Science Centre | Devonport | North West | Science | website, hands-on science displays | |
John Elliott Classics Museum | Hobart | Archaeology | website, operated by the University of Tasmania, art and culture of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, Greece, Etruria and Rome | ||
Latrobe Courthouse Museum | Latrobe | North West | Local | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia, local history displays | |
Launceston Tramway Museum | Launceston | North | Transport | website, historic trams | |
Low Head Pilot Station Maritime Museum | Low Head | Maritime | website | ||
Markree Museum | Hobart | Historic house | website, operated by the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, exhibitions of Tasmanian history and period rooms, changing exhibitions featuring art and decorative arts | ||
Maritime Museum of Tasmania | Hobart | Maritime | Tasmania's association with the sea, ships and shipbuilding | ||
Military Museum of Tasmania | Hobart | Military | Located within Anglesea Barracks | ||
Museum of Old and New Art | Hobart | Art | Includes antiquities, modern and contemporary art | ||
Narryna Heritage Museum | Hobart | Historic house | website, 19th century period wealthy merchant family's house | ||
National Automobile Museum of Tasmania | Launceston | Northern | Transport | website, automobiles, motorcycles, Tasmanian Motor Sport Hall of Fame | |
Norfolk Plains Heritage Centre | Longford | Local | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia, local history displays, historic Masonic lodge | ||
Oak Lodge (Richmond, Tasmania) | Richmond | Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia, features 19th century surgeon's office | ||
Old Hobart Town | Richmond | Historic house | website, model village depicting life in Hobart as it was in the 1820s | ||
Pearns Steam World | Westbury | North | Technology | website, steam engines, tractors, equipment and memorabilia | |
Penitentiary Chapel Historic Site | Hobart | Prison | Former maximum security prison for males and females with chapel and courts | ||
Plimsoll Gallery | Hobart | Art | website, operated by the University of Tasmania, innovative local, national and international contemporary art and design | ||
Port Arthur Historic Sites | Port Arthur | Open air | Includes a penitentiary, dock, church, hospital, 19th century period houses | ||
Richmond Gaol | Richmond | Prison | |||
Runnymede (Hobart, Tasmania) | Hobart | Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia, 19th century whaling family's house | ||
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery | Launceston | North | Multiple | Includes colonial art, contemporary craft and design, Tasmanian history and natural history displays | |
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery | Inveresk | North | Multiple | Tasmania's social and natural history including dinosaurs, railway transport, geology, local history | |
Salamanca Arts Centre | Hobart | Art | Includes several galleries | ||
Salmon Ponds | Plenty | North | Natural history | website, trout hatchery, museum of trout fishing | |
Suzanne Charleston Gallery | Ulverstone | North West | Art Gallery | Small exclusive Art Gallery overlooking Leven River, fine art, photography, glass & timber creations, fabric designs, exquisite jewellery website | |
Tasman Historical Museum and Cafe | Taranna | History | Facebook site, café with local historical artefacts on display | ||
Tasmanian Cricket Museum | Hobart | Sports | website, located in Blundstone Arena | ||
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery | Hobart | Multiple | History of Tasmania through every era, geology, natural history, Tasmania's indigenous population, Antarctica, numismatic display, art gallery | ||
Tasmanian Police Museum | Hobart | Tasmania Police | History of the Tasmanian police force, run by the Tasmania Police Historical Group [2] | ||
Tasmanian Transport Museum | Glenorchy | Transport | Railway equipment, buses, road vehicles, steam engines | ||
Tasmanian Wool Centre | Ross | History | website, retail store, museum with local history exhibits and history of the Tasmanian wool industry | ||
Tiagarra Aboriginal Culture Centre and Museum | Devonport | North West | Culture | information, history, cultures and art of Tasmanian Aboriginal people | |
University of Tasmania Galleries | Hobart, Launceston and Burnie | Art | information, works from the Fine Art Collection on exhibit in the Hobart's Plimsoll Gallery, the Academy Gallery in Launceston, and the Atrium Gallery at the Cradle Coast, and on each campus | ||
Vintage Tractor Shed Museum | Westbury | North | Technology | information, restored vintage tractors and machinery | |
Waddamana Power Stations | Waddamana | Technology | Equipment and science behind the former power generating station | ||
Watch House Museum | George Town | North | Prison | information, former prison and local history exhibits | |
Wooden Boat Centre | Franklin | Maritime | website, history of boatbuilding and water transport | ||
Woodsdale Museum | Levendale | North | History | website, includes 19th century period house and historic school | |
Woolmers Estate | Longford | Open air | 19th century farm estate including outbuildings, gardens | ||
West Coast Heritage Centre | Zeehan | West | History | website, dedicated to the history and pioneers of the West Coast of Tasmania. | |
The Pieman River is a major perennial river located in the west coast region of Tasmania, Australia.
John Glover was an English-born artist. In later life he migrated to Van Diemen’s Land and became a pastoralist during the early colonial period. He has been dubbed "the father of Australian landscape painting."
Schouten Island, part of the Schouten Island Group, is an island with an area of approximately 28 square kilometres (11 sq mi) lying close to the eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia, located 1.6 kilometres (0.99 mi) south of the Freycinet Peninsula and is a part of Freycinet National Park. The Paredarerme name for the island is Tiggana marraboona.
The Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG) is a museum located in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. The QVMAG is the largest museum in Australia not located in a capital city.
The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) is a museum located in Hobart, Tasmania. The museum was established in 1846, by the Royal Society of Tasmania, the oldest Royal Society outside England. The TMAG receives 400,000 visitors annually.
Craggy Island is a rugged granite island, with an area of 38.88 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Bass Pyramid Group lying in northern Bass Strait between Flinders Island and the Kent Group.
Hogan Island, the largest island of the Hogan Group, is a 232-hectare (570-acre) granite island, located in northern Bass Strait, that lies between the Furneaux Group in north-east Tasmania, and Wilsons Promontory in Victoria, Australia. The island has a maximum elevation of 116 metres (381 ft) AHD .
The St Helens Island, part of the Waterhouse Island Group, is a 51-hectare (130-acre) granite island situated in the Tasman Sea, lying close to the north-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia.
The Governor Island, part of the Schouten Island Group, comprise two small granite islands with a combined area of about 2 hectares that lie close to the eastern coast of Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia. The island is located near the Freycinet Peninsula and the town of Bicheno and is a nature reserve.
The Wedge Island, part of the Tasman Island Group, is an island with an area of 43 hectares lying close to the south-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia. The island is located in Storm Bay, situated off the Tasman Peninsula.
The Actaeon Island, part of the Actaeon Island Group, is a 15.65-hectare (38.7-acre) dolerite island and game reserve located at the southern entrance to the D'Entrecasteaux Channel between Bruny Island and the mainland, that lies close to the south-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia. The island is named for the ship Actaeon, which wrecked there in 1822.
Knud Geelmuyden Bull was a Norwegian painter and counterfeiter. He studied as a painter, was convicted for printing false bank notes, and was deported from the United Kingdom to Australia during 1846. He lived in Australia the remainder of his life, becoming a significant artistic painter there.
Satellite Island is a small island, part of the Partridge Island Group, lying close to the south-eastern coast of Tasmania, in the D'Entrecasteaux Channel between Bruny Island and the Tasmanian mainland. It is surrounded by an ancient fossil clad rock shelf, home to an array of local shellfish, including crayfish, native scallops, abalone and oysters. Satellite Island was discovered in 1792 by the French expedition led by Bruni D'Entrecasteaux. It was originally used as an observatory for the night sky.
The Hope Island, part of the Partridge Island Group, is a small island that lies close to the south-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia. The island is located in the D'Entrecasteaux Channel between Bruny Island and the Tasmanian mainland. Its neighbouring islets are named Faith and Charity, and also the Arch Rock.
Munday Island is a small island that lies between Port Davey, an oceanic inlet, and Bathurst Channel, located in the south west region of Tasmania, Australia. The island is contained with the Southwest National Park, part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Site and the Port Davey/Bathurst Harbour Marine Nature Reserve.
Norman James Brian Plomley regarded by some as one of the most respected and scholarly of Australian historians and, until his death, in Launceston, the doyen of Tasmanian Aboriginal scholarship.
The Tasmanian Heritage Register is the statutory heritage register of the Australian state of Tasmania. It is defined as a list of areas currently identified as having historic cultural heritage importance to Tasmania as a whole. The Register is kept by the Tasmanian Heritage Council within the meaning of the Tasmanian Historic Cultural Heritage Act 1995. It encompasses in addition the Heritage Register of the Tasmanian branch of the National Trust of Australia, which was merged into the Tasmanian Heritage Register. The enforcement of the heritage's requirements is managed by Heritage Tasmania.
Tasmania's offshore islands: seabirds and other natural features is a book published by the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in 2001. The book is considered an essential measure of the state of Tasmania's islands, birds inhabiting them, and the condition of the islands. The main author was Nigel Brothers, a Hobart based biologist, the other contributors were Vanessa Halley, Helen Pryor, and David Pemberton.
The Tasmanian archipelago is made up of 334 islands. This book highlights the uniqueness and importance of 280, as significant breeding refuges and wealthy natural resources. Islands are documented with descriptions of topography, wildlife, vegetation and full-colour photographs."