What is it? Australia’s largest regional museum featuring a planetarium, colonial art collection and blacksmith shop, along with an ongoing exhibition on the extinct Tasmanian tiger.
Why go? It's almost too good to be true, but this underrated museum is free of charge. The QVMAG is split across two sites with the Museum at Inveresk dedicated to natural science and history, and the Art Gallery at Royal Park home to traditional and contemporary art. Over at Inveresk, you can gaze in wonder at the stars in the full-dome Planetarium, explore an old blacksmiths' shop and study the centrepiece wall map of Tasmania depicting the territories occupied by 57 known clans over more than 30,000 years of pre-colonial history. Meanwhile, at Royal Park, you can wander through interactive installations, Aboriginal art displays, photography exhibitions and the Guan Di Temple.
