Current and upcoming exhibitions
| Fifty Shades of BlueOpening date : 09-05-2018 Closing date : 30-12-2019 A display of over 150 blue transfer printed plates from the TMAG collection, spanning from the late 18th century to the early 20th century. |
| Dirty PaperOpening date : 15-02-2019 Closing date : 14-07-2019 Dirty Paper features five Tasmanian artists who have created and curated new works in response to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) collection |
| Simpkinson’s HobartOpening date : 21-03-2019 Closing date : 16-06-2019 A selection of F G Simpkinson de Wesselow’s watercolours painted en plein air around Hobart between 1845 and 1848 is on show, with a panorama of Hobart Town in 1848 as the centrepiece. Presented in conjunction with the Royal Society of Tasmania in celebration of their 175th anniversary. |
| (Dis)placedOpening date : 20-04-2019 Closing date : 30-06-2020 (Dis)placed is a complementary exhibition to Not so Easy and includes archaeological ceramics given to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in 1939, by the Guildhall Museum in London. |
| Not So Easy: Australian Design and Identity since FederationOpening date : 20-04-2019 Closing date : 30-06-2020 Not So Easy is an exhibition that draws on the TMAG Decorative Arts collection to explore the changing relationship between design and identity in Australia. |
| Julie Gough: Tense PastOpening date : 07-06-2019 Closing date : 03-11-2019 This major exhibition by renowned Tasmanian Aboriginal artist Julie Gough interrogates colonial history and the impact of colonisation on Tasmania’s first people—then and now. |
| Geoff Dyer: PortraitsOpening date : 26-07-2019 Closing date : 06-10-2019 Geoff Dyer is well known in Tasmania as a landscape painter, however few people know that he has also painted portraits, often for the Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. |