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Queen Victoria Museum at Inveresk

7248 Launceston, Australia (Tasmania)
Address 2 Invermay Road
 
 
Floor area unfortunately not known yet  
 
Museum typ Exhibition
Heritage- or City Museum
  • Craft
  • Railway
  • Planetarium

Opening times
 daily: 10am - 4pm; closed Good Friday and Christmas Day

Admission
Status from 08/2019
 Free entry.
Contact
Tel.:+61-3-63 23 37 77  eMail:enquiries qvmag.tas.gov.au  
Homepage
to Location / Directions
www.qvmag.tas.gov.au
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Location / Directions
S41.428510° E147.140283°S41°25.71060' E147°8.41698'S41°25'42.6360" E147°8'25.0188"
Launceston is a city in the north of Tasmania, Australia at the junction of the North Esk and South Esk rivers where they become the Tamar River.

At Inveresk Precinct

The Inveresk and York Park Precinct in Launceston, Tasmania, once Tasmania's largest industrial site, is now the major cultural heart of the town. It is home to Aurora Stadium and the the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery.

The Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery is located on two sites, one at Royal Park (41.4378°S 147.1338°E) and the other at Inveresk, the site of the old Launceston Railway Workshops (41.4280°S 147.1407°E).

Parking

Museum parking is available at the Launceston City Council's Inveresk Car Park.

Catch the Tiger Bus

A Launceston City Council Sustainable Transport Strategy initiative, the free Tiger Bus is available throughout the day to provide easy access to the QVMAG Museum, Art Gallery and Planetarium and other Launceston City Council attractions

Photography and electronic devices

Please feel free to take flash-free photographs for personal use, unless otherwise stated. Tripods may not be used.
Description

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG) has a strong reputation for its excellent collection, which includes
fine exhibitions of colonial art,
contemporary craft and design,
Tasmanian history and natural sciences,
specifically a zoology collection.
There is also a special exhibition of a full Chinese temple that was used by 19th-century Chinese tin miners,
a working planetarium,
and displays related to Launceston's industrial environment and railway workshops.
The museum also houses the Victoria Cross awarded to Lewis McGee.

 

The Museum

The Inveresk site is home to the preserved railway workshops and permanent exhibition Tasmanian Connections which reveals a range of stories as told by the Museum's social history and natural science collections in six striking installations. Visitors can see dinosaurs, death masks, planes soaring high above and artefacts from Australia's oldest merchant shipwreck, the Sydney Cove.

Inveresk also features the Phenomena Factory, a free-entry interactive science centre providing hands-on education for kids of all ages,
the Blacksmith Shop,
Transforming the Island and QVMAG Planetarium.

QVMAG Museum Guides provide two free tours every Sunday: one at 10.30am and another at 1pm. Please look for the sign at the Museum entrance.
The Blacksmith Shop is open on Sundays between 11.30am and 12.30pm.
 

Museum Attractions

Transforming the Island

This is the story of how the railways shaped Tasmania, changing the way we live and work. It recounts the important role played by the Railway Workshops at Inveresk, which formed the largest integrated engineering workshop site in the State. The exhibition features many items, large and small, from the QVMAG's extensive railway collection.
 

Heritage Trail

Discover the QVMAG Inveresk site through the Heritage Trail which is a series of interpretation panels showing the buildings, previous uses and the experiences of the men who worked there. Thirty-seven interpretation points around the site will lead you to smaller exhibits including the Signal Box, the Weighbridge, the Railway Institute, the Compressor and Switch Rooms and the Signwriters Shop.
 

Planetarium

The QVMAG Planetarium is where you will see astronomical concepts demonstrated in a way this is both dramatic and scientifically accurate.

The Planetarium operates a Zeiss ZKP3 star projector in conjunction with a fulldome digital system. Each year, thousands of people gaze up onto its famous dome to watch exciting feature presentations and to experience the thrill of feeling that they are out under the stars.
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