The experience begins before you step foot in the door.  

At the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG), the buildings that house one of the most important collections in Australia are themselves some of the most significant in the country. 

Prepare to spend a chunk of time here. TMAG is fascinating inside and out.

Indoors, more than a million objects ranging from a prehistoric woolly mammoth tusk to contemporary works by living Tasmanian artists are carefully curated to form part of a distinctively Tasmanian story.

TMAG’s collections were started by Australia's oldest scientific society, the Royal Society of Tasmania, established in 1843.  They were housed in a single building on the corner of Argyle and Macquarie streets and gradually expanded to occupy an entire city block, including Tasmania's oldest surviving public building, the 1808-10 Commissariat Store; the Private Secretary's Cottage, built before 1815; and Tasmania's first federal building, the 1902 Custom House.

Just a short 8 minute walk by foot from The Royale and THE MISTRAL.
Only a 10 minute trip via car from our other properties.