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  • Heritage Buildings

    The TMAG precinct on Hobart’s waterfront at Sullivans Cove is one of Australia’s most historically significant sites and is home to a unique collection of heritage buildings that have played an important role in the administrative, commercial and cultural history of Hobart and Tasmania.

  • The Commissariat Store

    The Commissariat Provision or Issuing Store is the oldest surviving public building in Tasmania and one of Australia’s earliest public buildings.

  • The Bond Store

    By the 1820s additional government storage facilities were required. Construction of the four-level Bond Store commenced in 1824.

  • Courtyard and Watergate

    A courtyard was built between the Commissariat Store and Bond Store. In 1826 the eastern end of the Commissariat complex was enclosed by a brick and stone wall connecting the two buildings.

  • Queen's Warehouse

    In 1869 the Commissariat complex was transferred from British Imperial control to the colonial government and used for Customs purposes. Construction of the two-storey brick Queen’s Warehouse commenced in 1869, providing an additional bonded store between the two older buildings.

  • The Custom House

    The 1902 Custom House is Tasmania’s first federal building. The elaborate Baroque Revival façade dominates the streetscape of constitution Dock, symbolising the optimism and civic pride of the period. The statues carved by Hobart-born sculptor, Charles Watson (1872–1962) are particularly noteworthy.

  • The Private Secretary’s Cottage

    This two-storey colonial Georgian cottage is the second-oldest building in the TMAG precinct after the Commissariat Store and may originally have been built as an outbuilding for the Commissariat.

  • Museum complex

    The TMAG is Australia’s second-oldest museum and has its origins in the collections of Australia’s oldest scientific society, the Royal Society of Tasmania, established in 1843.

  • The Land

    TMAG is situated in what is now known as the Sullivans Cove precinct. However, prior to European Settlement Aboriginal people called the land Nibberloone or Linghe.

  • Mouheneenner people

    The Mouheneenner band of Aborigines were the original inhabitants of the land on which TMAG is situated. The Aboriginal tribe lived in the area for thousands of years prior to British colonisation in 1804.