Free Guided Tours
Free guided tours are available Wednesday – Sunday at 2.30pm.
Groups depart from the main entry foyer and the tour goes for approximately 50 minutes.
During the tour you will learn about:
- TMAG’s historic site and buildings
- The Tasmanian Aboriginal Community
- Early European Settlement
- Life as a convict
- The thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) and
- The works of colonial artists including John Glover and Benjamin Duterrau
Special groups can be catered for at different times please Contact Us to make enquiries.
Check out our What's On page and if any special exhibitions particularly interest you or your group then Contact Us to arrange a tour.
Art Guide Tours
Exhibition Tours
Sunday 2pm
The Eighties Show
13 July- 7 November 2009
Bookings essential
Phone: (03) 6211 4189 or
email: tmag.bookings@tmag.tas.gov.au
Huon Pine - Meet the Collector Tours
Tour TMAG's Huon Pine furniture collection with the collector, George Burrows. The 54 outstanding pieces span nearly 100 years of Tasmanian colonial history and are now part of the State collection. It is thought to contain the most significant example of Huon Pine furniture in the world. It was generously donated by the Museum of Old and New Art.
Cost: free
Time: 11am-12.30pm
No bookings required.
Meet in the TMAG foyer
Tour dates: August 2, 16, 30; September 13, 27
October 11, 25;
November 8, 22;
December 6, 20
Curiosities of the Cottage Tours
The Private Secretary's Cottage is one of the treasures of the TMAG site. Built in approximately 1813 it could tell a myriad of stories about Tasmania's history. It is rarely open to the public but it contains interesting furniture, paintings and objects from the TMAG collection. George Burrows, an expert on colonial furniture and heritage buildings. will lead the tours.
Cost: $5
Time: 11am-12.30pm
Numbers are strictly limted - please reserve your place at the front desk on the day.
Meet in the TMAG foyer
Tour dates: August 9, 23; September 6, 20; October 4, 18; November 1, 15, 29; December 13, 27