Curate Your Own Adventure
Reviewing Museums & Heritage Places
Category: Hobart
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Our final museum/heritage visit for this holiday was the Cascades Female Factory in Hobart. How this site has been managed is both a fitting memorial to those who were incarcerated and an informative insight into the past. This is despite only one original building still standing. We arrived around 10am and decided to do the…
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Before driving from Hobart to Launceston, we booked the rental car for an extra day so we could visit Port Arthur. I am fascinated by convict history so somewhere like Port Arthur will always be high on my ‘must-visit’ list. I am so glad we dedicated an entire day to exploring the site and I’m…
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The last time I visited MONA was back in (approximately) 2011/2012. It was during a German summer school and I was in a group tasked with guiding others in the program through the Museum. It was a much more relaxing visit yesterday and I was able to admire more of the architecture than I had…
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This is going to be a very brief post about a re-purposed heritage building in Hobart City Centre. Owned by The Tasman Hotel, Mary Mary is a cute little bar housed in the former St Mary’s Hospital, Tasmania’s first private hospital. How this bar has managed to combine both modern and heritage is amazing and…
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When we arrived in Hobart on Friday, we went for a walk around the city centre. During this walk, we saw the Mawson’s Huts Replica Museum and decided to return for a visit the next day. I didn’t even know this museum existed! Situated near Constitution Dock, this small wooden structure certainly stands out as…
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Imogen Kennard-King is back with an excellent blog post on the weird and wonderful world of MONA, Museum of Old and New Art. Thank you Imogen! After a long absence, I am back with a blog sharing some observations from a recent visit to MONA, the Museum of Old and New Art, in Hobart, Tasmania.…
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