Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG)
QVMAG
Australia's largest regional museum, housed in a former railway workshop with Tasmanian natural history, a planetarium and a Chinese temple left by 19th-century Chinese tin miners.
The Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG) has two sites. The Inveresk site is a former railway locomotive workshop, now displaying Tasmanian natural history, Aboriginal culture, steam locomotives and workshops, and a planetarium with scheduled shows. Its most distinctive exhibit is the Zhongyi Hall (Hall of Loyalty and Righteousness) temple display left by 19th-century Chinese tin miners. The Royal Park site is a Victorian-style art museum built in 1891, holding colonial-era paintings and contemporary art. Entry is generally free, though the planetarium charges a fee. The two sites are about 1.5 km apart and are connected by a free city bus.
Opening hours
~10:00–16:00
Nearby sights
- James Boag Brewery
- National Automobile Museum of Tasmania
- City Park
- Cataract Gorge Reserve
- Tamar Island Wetlands
- Hollybank Treetops Adventure
- Swiss Village Grindelwald
- Tamar Valley Wine Route