Address
2 Invermay Road
Inveresk
Tasmania
7248
Australia
Phone
+61
03
6323 3777
Fax
+61
03
6323 3776
The Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG) in Launceston is Australia’s largest regional gallery. Launceston, in Tasmania’s north, is a two-and-a-half hour drive from Hobart (199 kilometres/123 miles).
The QVMAG has a national profile for its collections of Australian colonial art, contemporary craft and design, Tasmanian history, and natural sciences. It is located on two sites - Royal Park and Inveresk – each featuring a broad range of permanent and temporary exhibitions.
The Royal Park site was purpose-built in 1891 and is one of Australia’s oldest operating museum buildings. Permanent exhibitions include a children’s interactive gallery and collections exploring Tasmania’s Aboriginal history and culture, endemic fauna and geology. Royal Park also houses the Launceston Planetarium and a Chinese Temple. The temple includes artefacts from an original joss house built by Chinese tin miners in northeast Tasmania during the 19th century.
The Inveresk site, opened in 2001, was once the Launceston Railway Workshops. The original structure has been incorporated into a striking contemporary architectural design, and features world-class galleries, exhibition spaces and an Academy of the Arts. Permanent exhibitions include the railway workshops, blacksmith’s shop, colonial and contemporary Tasmanian art, and a stunning exhibition of rare Tasmanian Aboriginal shell necklaces.
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Experiences
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
- The Arts