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  • Hans Heysen

    One of Australia's greatest landscape artists, Hans Heysen (1877-1968), is celebrated with Hans Heysen the first major retrospective exhibition of his work in three decades.

  • Tayenebe

    Tayenebe is the name of an art project underway in which Tasmanian Aboriginal women are reviving traditional fibre skills culminating in an exhibition opening at TMAG during NAIDOC week 2009.

  • Jao Tsung-i

    Professor Jao Tsung-i is the most prominent scholar and artist of present day China. This will be the largest exhibition of his works ever shown outside of Asia.

  • The 80s Show

    The 1980s were characterised by a heightened criticism of Modernism, as artists, craftspeople and designers embraced post-modern eclecticism.

  • Ningenneh Tunapry

    The new Tasmanian Aboriginal Gallery presents visitors with a rich, enlightening and inspiring experience.

  • Medals & Money

    Containing more than 350 medals and coins, including part of one of the most important collections of Roman coins in Australia donated by Lord Talbot de Malahide.

  • Islands to Ice

    Now Showing

  • Encounters

    TMAG can claim to hold one of Australia's finest collections of early settler art including important colonial paintings.

  • The Museum of Old and New Art State Collection

    Now Showing

  • 100 pieces from the Wongs' Collection

    The most significant donation of Chinese art and antiquities ever presented to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. The collection comprises more than 250 individual items from the Neolithic period through to the twentieth century.

  • Huon Pine Tours

    Tour the Huon Pine furniture collection with collector George Burrows. The 54 outstanding pieces span nearly 100 years of Tasmanian colonial history.

  • Curiosities of the Cottage

    The Private Secretary's Cottage is one of the hidden treasures of the TMAG site. Built in approximately 1813 it could tell a myriad of stories about Tasmanian history.

  • Hans Heysen Preview - 3 Dec

    A Friends of TMAG event

  • Friends Christmas Barbecue - 11 Dec

    2009 Friends of TMAG Christmas Barbecue

  • 06/12/2009 - 06/12/2009

    LiveArt@TMAG - oil painting

    Helen Bridgland will demonstrate oil painting techniques as part of the Hans Heysen exhibition at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Helen's demonstration is included in the guided tour of the Heysen exhibition. This is a series of demonstrations during the Heysen exhibition aimed at illustrating the techniques of one of Australia's most influential landscape artists. Other demonstrations will include drawing and water colour techniques.

  • 3/1/2010 - 3/1/2010

    LiveArt@TMAG - drawing and watercolours

    Deborah St Leger (drawing) and Diane Casimaty (watercolour) will demonstrate drawing and watercolour techniques as part of the Hans Heysen exhibition at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Their demonstrations are included in the guided tour of the Heysen exhibition. This is a series of demonstrations during the Heysen exhibition aimed at illustrating the techniques of one of Australia's most influential landscape artists.

  • 7/2/2010 - 7/2/2010

    LiveArt@TMAG - Plein Air demonstration

    Hobart's Plein Air Painting Group (established in the early 1960's) will be demonstrating techniques as part of the Hans Heysen exhibition at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. The group includes legendary Tasmanian artist Max Angus. Plein Air means painting direct from nature in the open air (en plein air). This is a series of demonstrations during the Heysen exhibition aimed at illustrating the techniques of one of Australia's most influential landscape artists.

19/11/2009

TMAG renewal project team picks up the pace

18/11/2009

New TMAGgots website now live

17/11/2009

More than 55,000 flock to Jao Tsung-i

26/10/2009

Mining, Mud and Mirth heads West

08/10/2009

Extinction no death sentence for long-lost species