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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.
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| Name | Location | Region | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Australasian Golf Museum | Bothwell | Sport | website | |
| Avoca Museum | Avoca | Local | Located in a historic school building | |
| 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 | |
| Lady Franklin Gallery | Lenah Valley | Local | website, Operated by The Art Society of Tasmania, which located to the premises in 1949. | |
| 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 | |
| Mawson's Huts Replica Museum | Hobart | Arctic | A replica hut museum about Douglas Mawson and the Australasian Antarctic Expedition | |
| 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 | |
| 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. |
See also
References
- "Avoca Museum and Information Centre". Discover Tasmania. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
- "History of the Lady Franklin Gallery". The Art Society of Tasmania. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
- "Facebook site". Tasmania Police Historical Group. Retrieved 23 February 2015.