Mining, Mud and Mirth: Robinson's photographs of Waratah 1913–45
4 July 2008–31 May 2009

In 1913 JH Robinson was employed to work at Mt Bischoff Mines on the rugged West Coast of Tasmania. As an amateur photographer he was the principal biographer of Osmiridium mining at the Savage River and Mount Stewart fields, and recorded many features of the Mt Bischoff mine operations-one of the richest tin mines in the world at the time. For over 30 years Robinson captured the lives and endeavours of the industrious individuals who lived and worked in the extreme and isolated conditions of the Waratah region.

Images displayed in this Exhibition were scanned from original photographic glass plates using funds made available by Friends of TMAG in 2008.

Cabinet of Curiosities
From 30 June 2008

The Cabinet of Curiosities is a captivating and curious exhibition from the National Museum of Australia that has been wending its way around the country and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery is excited to showcase it in late June. The 36 drawers of the cabinet all contain something interesting that is set to intrigue and captivate adults and children alike.

ningenneh tunapry
Now Showing
Tasmanian Aboriginal Gallery

The new Tasmanian Aboriginal Gallery presents visitors with a rich, enlightening and inspiring experience. Ningenneh Tunapry means ‘to give knowledge and understanding’. The gallery explores the journey of Tasmanian Aboriginal people and is a celebration of all Tasmanian Aboriginal generations—past, present and future.

Medals & Money : stories from the state numismatics collection
Numismatics Gallery

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, this exhibition examines literally hundreds of stories – taking in everything from the end of convict transportation to federation banknotes and the start of decimal currency.

Islands to Ice: The Great Southern Ocean & Antarctica

Islands to Ice is the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery’s new exhibition exploring the definitions, perceptions, mythology and motivations of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. It explores the places, the people, the creatures and the phenomena that make the great southern wilderness a world of its own. It is an invitation to journey south from Hobart across wild sapphire oceans to the crystal desert of the Antarctic.

Eloquent Objects: The Wongs Collection of Chinese Antiquities & Artefacts
Decorative Arts Gallery

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. Professor Shiu Hon and Mrs. Nancy Wong’s donation is an excellent representation of Chinese culture and artistic endeavour. The largest part of the collection consists of ceramics, with almost 200 pieces. In addition to these, there are eighteen carvings in wood and seven in stone, five metal artefacts, three musical instruments, four pieces of furniture and sixteen snuff bottles.

Encounters
Now Showing
Colonial Gallery

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

Facture
14 August–23 November 2008
Art Gallery 4

Facture is the fifth exhibition produced collaboratively by the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and Contemporary Art Services Tasmania. This particular exhibition, which is the first in a series, will focus on contemporary Tasmanian craft and design. The exhibition will survey the work of particular artists for whom the process of making the piece and the materials used are conceptually significant to their design practices.

THE BIG DRAW
1 September–11 October 2008
Commissariat Store

The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery is participating in the international project, The Big Draw. The object is to encourage everyone to get back to drawing regardless of age or experience. As part of the project The TMAG Art Guides will present an exhibition of works by artists who have volunteered to participate in the program. There will also be a series of practical drawing studio workshops for adults and children.
Workshops will be run from 6 September to 5 October. Come along, improve your drawing skills and be part of an international project.

Grace Crowley: Being Modern
3 October–23 November 2008

This is the first exhibition of Grace Crowley’s work since 1975. It includes important works from public and private collections and traces her remarkable artistic journey from traditional landscapes to avant-garde experimentation and pure abstraction. The exhibition includes several recently rediscovered paintings and the largest number of Crowley’s abstract paintings ever assembled, enabling a new appraisal of Crowley’s achievement.

Anne Ferran : The Ground, the air
12 December 2008–22 February 2009
Art Galleries 1–4

The Tasmanian Museum Art Gallery is proud to host The Ground, the air ,the first major exhibition in Tasmania by acclaimed Australian artist Anne Ferran.
The Ground, the air is an exhibition of photography, video and installation that uses Tasmanian sites and archives, archaeology and histories to explore how the past haunts the present. With a particular focus on the lives of female convicts and their children, The Ground, the air asks audiences to consider the notion of the landscape as witness and the effects of acts of forgetting.