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Explore thought-provoking exhibitions and spaces on campus and organise access to cultural collections not currently on display. See what’s on offer in your vicinity and plan a visit.
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Sandy Bay collections
The John Elliott Classics Museum houses a significant collection of ancient artefacts from Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Etruria and Rome including 300 artefacts and 500 ancient coins.
The museum is open to the public and used as a research and teaching resource for the University, community, and school groups.
Opening hours
Mon- Thu : 9am-12pm and 1-4pm.
Closed during summer break
The Morris Miller Library Foyer Display is home to short term and experimental displays of touring and rarely displayed works from cultural collections including art, classics, and the library special and rare collections. The library is open to the public.
The reading room offers access to the Special and Rare Collections of Morris Miller Library. Including The Royal Society of Tasmania Collections, early books and manuscripts, cultural and historical records for the university and other items linked to the Tasmanian community.
Opening hours
Mon & Wed : 10am – 5pm.
By appointment.
Entry is free
The reading room is available to students and the public by appointment only.
Contact the Collection Coordinator to organise your visit..
The University of Tasmania Geology Collection is home to more than 180,000 specimens spanning minerals, rocks, and fossils, including many type specimens. The collection is actively used in teaching and research. Staff conduct tours of the storage facility by appointment.
Opening hours
By appointment only.
Location
Earth Sciences Building, Sandy Bay Campus.
Entry is free
The rock store is available to students and the public by appointment only. Contact Rock Store Curator
Hobart City collections
The Plimsoll showcases touring and curated exhibitions of innovative local, national, and international contemporary art and design, as well as student work from the School of Creative and Performing Arts.
Opening hours
Tues-Sat 11am-4pm
Closed Sundays, Mondays and
public holidays
Entry is free
No bookings required.
Part of the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, the IMAS Gallery is a temporary exhibition space that speaks to the connections between art and science with a focus on marine ecology and Antarctic science.
Opening hours
Mon-Fri 11am-3pm
Within the Carington Smith Library on Hunter Street Campus, the Tyler Gallery is a hidden treasure-trove of fine art works and books showcasing Romanian and other modern art from the Tyler Collection.
Opening hours
Mon-Fri 9am-5pm
Entry is free
Carington Smith Library is accessible to UTAS staff and students via swipe card. Available to the public by appointment. Book here
The Sunroom Gallery is a student gallery run in partnership between the School of Creative and Performing Arts and the Tasmanian University Student Association. It offers visual art students the opportunity to develop their professional practice by exhibiting or curating new and experimental work.
Opening hours
Mon-Fri 10am-4pm
(except public holidays)
Entry is free
No bookings required
The Hedberg Performing Arts Precinct encompasses the historic Theatre Royal and the University of Tasmania’s state of the art teaching and performance venues.
Opening hours
Mon-Fri 9am-5pm
(except public holidays)
Entry is free
Check ticketing details for
individual events.
The Loop is a large-scale digital screen located in the Midtown precinct of Hobart. Community members, artists, curators, and organisations are encouraged to contribute works which delight, divert, entertain and provoke thought – connecting artists with audiences and the City of Hobart.
North and North West Tasmania collections
In the forecourt of Inveresk library, puglingina milaythina Indigenous Welcoming space honours Tasmania’s First Nations people. Guardian stones represent Tasmania’s nine Aboriginal Nations and deep-time connections to Country. In the library foyer, visitors are welcomed by Tasmanian aboriginal elders via digital display before wandering a constellation of Riawunna cultural collections, landscapes, and textile design by Indigenous artists.
Open to students and community, Inveresk Library offers group and quiet study spaces, digital and print collections and resources. The sustainable, community co-designed space features large-scale commissions from artists Troy Ruffels and Caleb Nichols-Mansell responding to the surrounding landscape as well as art and cultural objects from the Riawunna collection.
Launceston’s digital portal exhibits time-based media from local, national, and international artists. The current exhibition I don’t know what features work by six artists challenging Eurocentric ways of knowing, cultural erasure and meaning lost in translation in a hyper-speed world.
Features works include: Annie Edney, Contemplative Activism, 2021; Isaac Julien, Encore: Tabula Rasa (Ten Thousand Waves), 2012; Terry Flaxton, The Sum of Hands, 2015; Matthew Biederman, Guided Saccade (For Newton), 2016; Tracey Emin, I Can’t Believe How Much I Loved You, 2013; Darryl Rogers, takayna Hypostasis #2, 2021
The Lantern Gallery is a new student-run gallery space for art, architecture, design, and technology. It is located inside The Workshop and Levee Studios at Inveresk.
Other University of Tasmania collections
Tours are available to explore the Mt Pleasant Observatory and Grote Reber Museum, located near Cambridge, overlooking the Coal River Valley. The museum showcases the life and work of Tasmanian radio astronomer Grote Reber and the University's radio astronomy projects.