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  • Museum at Inveresk
    • Women's Art Prize Tasmania 2022 Finalists Exhibition
    • Northern Clay
    • Grounded: Place is Space
    • Centenary of the Royal Society: a right royal effort
    • Estuary: below the surface
    • Natural Visions
    • Tasmanian Connections
    • Tasmanian Tiger: precious little remains
    • The Sydney Cove Collection
    • Transforming the Island: railways in Tasmania
    • Southern Skies
    • The Blacksmith Shop
    • Phenomena Factory
  • Art Gallery at Royal Park
  • Events
  • Across Launceston
  • Coming soon
  • Past exhibitions

Tasmanian Connections

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Queen Victoria Museum at Inveresk
Free

This gallery is a permanent exhibition of Tasmanian natural science and history displays. Discover colonial and bushranger artefacts, animals, geological timelines, transport history (bikes, buggies and planes!) and even dinosaurs. Tasmanian Connections also features objects recovered from the wreck of Australia's oldest merchant shipwreck, The Sydney Cove, including the ship's rudder and anchor.

 

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Northern Clay

Explore the story of the rise of ceramics in northern Tasmania, beginning with two former Launceston pottery companies: John Campbell Pottery and McHugh Brothers.

Museum at Inveresk | Free

Tasmanian Tiger: precious little remains

Peruse historical photographs, objects and stories about the thylacine.

Museum at Inveresk | Free

The Sydney Cove Collection

Treasures and tales of survival from an eighteenth century shipwreck.

Museum at Inveresk | Free

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Free entry, open 10am to 4pm daily

 

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2 Wellington Street, Launceston 

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