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Unshackled is an award-winning immersive digital exhibition that reveals the untold story of Australia's convict past. Unlike the popular narrative of punishment and chains, Unshackled tells the story of the Assignment System — where convicts earned their freedom through skill and labour.
Through cutting-edge digital storytelling, visitors can connect with individual convict stories from the 160,000 men, women, and children transported to Australia. The exhibition brings the Assignment System to life through immersive projections, interactive displays, and deeply personal narratives.
Housed in the purpose-built Nigel Peck Centre at Woolmers Estate, Unshackled is accessible in all weather and is included with combined admission tickets.
Loving brings long-hidden stories into the light through hundreds of rare and intimate photographs dating from the 1850s to the 1950s.
Captured at a time when same-sex relationships were often criminalised or socially condemned, the images reveal moments of tenderness, connection, and quiet defiance. Together, they form a striking counternarrative to the repression of their era.
The exhibition also invites reflection on the fight for equality and freedom by drawing on the histories and values shared by the EU and Australia.
Through Loving, the EU and Australia reaffirm their shared commitment to the promotion and protection of human rights. By preserving and presenting these histories, both acknowledge the importance of remembering the past to inform a more inclusive future.
QVMAG co-presents with the Delegation of the European Union to Australia - Loving: Photographs of Men in Love 1850s-1950s. A unique portrait exhibition based on the archive collection and book of the same name, researched and curated by Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell.
Bugs are the hidden heroes of our planet.
From pollinating plants to breaking down waste, these fascinating creatures play vital roles in ecosystems everywhere.
Marvel at the incredible variety found in the world of bugs, from beautiful butterflies and brilliant beetles to marvellous millipedes and spectacular spiders.
These tiny wonders are the most abundant and diverse group of organisms on earth. Experts believe there are more species not yet named by science than those already described.
Through hands-on activities, games and interactive displays, discover amazing bug superpowers and learn to love nature's little helpers.
Join them at the National Automobile Museum of Tasmania for the HD & HR 60th Anniversary Reunion on Sunday, October 25th, 2026.
Running from 10am to 4pm, the day will celebrate 60 years of the iconic HD and HR Holden. All HD and HR Holdens are welcome to display, with food and drink available on the day.
A great day out for Holden enthusiasts, classic car fans, and anyone who loves Australian motoring history.
In 2026, Scotch Oakburn College celebrates 140 years of community, connection and shared history.
Born from the amalgamation of Methodist Ladies' College, Oakburn College and Scotch College, Scotch Oakburn College stands as a testament to shared values, enduring traditions and a progressive spirit.
This celebration honours 140 years of learning, connection and community. It reflects the people, experiences and traditions that have shaped the College and continue to inspire future generations.
In true Scotch Oakburn spirit, the celebration has been community-led, with students, staff, families and Collegians contributing ideas, memories and stories. Together, they have helped create a program that reflects who the College is, where it has come from and the values that continue to guide it.
This community exhibition forms part of a broader celebration that recognises the people, stories and spirit that have shaped Scotch Oakburn College across 140 years.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso is internationally renowned for using unconventional and organic materials to consider nature and its links to culture and science. Working across sculpture, photography, installation, video and performance, her work examines the connections and tensions between society and the natural world.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso: Spiders of Paradise presents new works from Cardoso's Spiders of Paradise photographic series (2018–ongoing), alongside her acclaimed video work On the Origins of Art I-II (2016). Cardoso's subject is the tiny Australian Maratus spider – measuring less than 5mm in size – and their unique, brightly-coloured abdomens, which form part of their elaborate mating rituals.
Bringing together science, art and nature, this exhibition celebrates the beauty of the natural world and reveals the sophisticated lives of creatures not usually witnessed.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso: Spiders of Paradise is an exhibition developed and toured by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
Art in Conflict is a touring exhibition of contemporary art from the collection of the Australian War Memorial.
These artist responses to conflict bring to light untold stories, reveal neglected histories and deepen our understanding of Australia's experience of conflict, both past and present.
Supported by research from an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project, the exhibition highlights how war art can lead us to consider different ways of thinking about current and recent conflicts, inviting us to consider perspectives we might not otherwise encounter.
An Australian War Memorial touring exhibition, assisted by the Australian Government's Visions of Australia program.
ACMI's collection has a rich, 75-year history from its inception as the State Film Centre in 1946. Since its incarnation as ACMI in the early 2000s, the collection has expanded to include artworks and experimental film.
ACMI now holds a significant archive of complex, time-based media works and videogames, as well as an ever-expanding repository of digitised content and born-digital material.
This exhibition celebrates ACMI's vibrant collecting and commissioning program, showcasing five moving image artworks by Australian artists. Working in video offers artists the opportunity to use editing as a primary technique; mixing and matching elements from other films, or their own work, to tell new stories.
By remixing or rearranging footage, these five artists build different rhythms and moods, creating hilarious juxtapositions or shedding new light on cultural cliches and presumed histories.
All works featured in this exhibition demonstrate an irrepressible desire to bring deep themes to the surface with humour and an incredible attention to detail.
Featuring: Kaylene Whiskey, Deborah Kelly, Zanny Begg, David Rosetzky, Christian Thompson
QVMAG's latest collection exhibition provides a unique opportunity to bring unexpected objects, hidden favourites, and overlooked curiosities back into public view.
Selected by members of the QVMAG team, Out of the Vault is designed for audiences to encounter the remarkable breadth of the QVMAG collection as a world shaped by innumerable people, perspectives, and personalities over time.
The chosen objects and artworks move between the historical, humorous, beautiful and the bizarre. Out of the Vault reminds us that museums are living collections – constantly changing, growing, and revealing new stories depending on who is looking, and why.
FermentHQ offers a range of hands on workshops, masterclasses and demonstrations around the making and enjoying of fermented food and beverages.
Located in this new state of the art incubator for new fermented products in the UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy region renown for it's food culture and at the gateway to the Tamar Valley Wine Route.
Their one-day course is both rewarding and challenging with SCT's outdoor survival training. The course will introduce you to the world of wilderness and bush survival skills in an innovative and insightful way, providing you with the core essentials to surviving your journey into the bush. Whether you're an interstate or international visitor doing the Overland Track or other Tassie hikes...you will really benefit from a good survival course to help keep you safe on the trail!
The principles and key priority steps taught on this course are relevant in almost any environment including in an urban area, as well as out in the field. This course is ideal for anybody who's new to the bush, as well as experienced outdoorsmen and women who would like to refresh and further their skills. No experience is necessary, as they will provide full training on the day.
This fun and challenging course will test your ability to think laterally, as well as use and repurpose what you have on you and what you have around you in nature. It will teach you a diverse range of core and necessary survival skills gleaned from a mixture of real world wilderness survival and bushcraft concepts.
Trivia People Tasmania brings a new product to Tassie, swapping the old boring pen-and-paper trivia quizzes for a fun new interactive entertainment trivia night!
*Free to play Fortnightly Monday night at Tandy's Alehouse, Launceston! Commencing at 6:30 pm and featuring our own array of SPICY hosts, from drag artists, local larrikins to comediennes!
The SPICY theme continues in collaboration with Mr Sing's fabulous Curry Club! Order a curry and have it delivered direct to your bar stool!
Everybody is welcome - visitors and locals alike! Inclusive Event, LGBTQI friendly and Cosplay welcome
*Free with a drinks purchase (otherwise $15)
The Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG) is Northern Tasmania's home of art, history, and natural science.
The QVMAG collection shares stories of local Aboriginal cultures, colonial history, and modern diversity, alongside extensive history archives and natural science research.
Located across two sites, you can experience the QVMAG collection through the 1890's heritage Art Gallery at Royal Park (2 Wellington Street, Launceston) and the Museum at Inveresk (2 Invermay Road, Invermay), set within 1870s-era industrial railway workshops.
The Museum at Inveresk is home to natural sciences displays, transport and railway memorabilia, blacksmith workshops, and the iconic Launceston Planetarium. See dinosaurs, trains, animal species (including the Tasmanian thylacine), artefacts from Australia's oldest merchant shipwreck, and BUGS; QVMAG's blockBUGster exhibition providing hands-on education for kids of all ages.
Over at the Art Gallery at Royal Park, you'll explore the history and culture of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people through the long-term exhibition First Tasmanians: our story, experience history collections such as the Guan Di Temple, and uncover galleries showcasing contemporary art as well as the QVMAG art collection; which bring the histories, identities and stories of Northern Tasmania into a fresh context.
Two sites, free entry. Open daily. Please visit the website for further information.
The Spotted Quoll Studio is a Tasmanian business that creates beautiful, ethical wares, featuring original, environmentally inspired designs captured from the natural beauty around us.
Produced in an environmentally sustainable manner that evokes thought for the future and the preservation of the wilderness and the fragile species that live within it.
To ultimately create meaningful employment in Tasmania in both retail and manufacturing!
Celebrate 25 years of Hawthorn Football Club in Launceston through Home Ground: 25 Years of Hawthorn in Launceston, a free exhibition at Launceston Town Hall.
Explore a remarkable collection of memorabilia from the Hawthorn archives alongside treasured community items that tell the story of one of the longest-running and most successful partnerships in Australian sport. Discover the moments, memories and people that have shaped Hawthorn's Tasmanian journey and Launceston's football story over the past quarter-century.
Visitors will also have the rare opportunity to view Hawthorn's four AFL Premiership Cups won during the club's Tasmanian era.
Whether you're a lifelong Hawks supporter, a football enthusiast or simply interested in Launceston's sporting history, Home Ground offers a unique opportunity to celebrate the partnership between Hawthorn Football Club and the Launceston community. Free entry.
dAda mUse is a celebration of surrealism, custodian to Australia's largest collection of Salvador Dali's works on paper.
The art gallery consists of two floors, Level 1 and 2, which together displays upwards of 200 rare and/or original pieces for public appreciation at a time; featured exhibitions are rotated seasonally. (Works by other prolific surrealists and inspirations of Dadaism, such as Goya, Durix, or Kujau, may also be present.)
dAda mUse occupies the historic '1842 Johnstone and Wilmot' building - one of Launceston's most noteworthy sites of old; great care has been taken to preserve and showcase its heritage features for visitors.
Leoni Duff Galleries is a refined fine art gallery in Launceston, Tasmania, dedicated to contemporary realist art by four highly regarded Tasmanian artists. Located in the heart of the city, the gallery offers an immersive cultural experience that blends artistic excellence with historic surroundings.
The gallery showcases the luminous watercolours of Rod Gardner, whose delicate handling of light and atmosphere brings landscapes and still lifes to life. Chris Arnol, a classically trained realist artist, presents oil paintings and expressive charcoal works that capture both character and mood through strong draftsmanship. Leoni Duff's own oil and pastel paintings are known for their rich textures and dynamic compositions, conveying emotion and depth through bold yet sensitive mark making. Completing the collection are the vibrant pastel and charcoal works of Jonathan Bowen, celebrated for his broken colour technique and fresh, energetic approach to realism.
Leoni Duff Galleries is located on the first floor of one of Launceston's oldest heritage buildings, within the historic Old Brisbane Arcade. The character-filled setting adds to the experience, inviting visitors to slow and engage with both the art and the architecture, overlooking a central streets of Launceston.
A visit to Leoni Duff Galleries offers an authentic connection to Tasmania's creative talent and is an ideal experience for art lovers seeking thoughtful, beautifully crafted works in a central Launceston location.
Located right next to the iconic Cataract Gorge, Penny Royal Adventures aimed to re-create 19 century's Van Diemen's Land. It provides a village experience for everyone from history-themed boat rides to ultimate cliff adventures such as cliff jump, zip lines, rock climbing and cliff walk.
With its picturesque site and privileged location, Penny Royal Adventures has quickly gained the popularity within its local community and has become a 'must visit ' destination for visitors travelling interstate and internationally. * Free entry for all ages
The Holy Trinity building is one of the architectural gems of Launceston and an integral part of the history, culture and heritage of the city. The first church building on this site was built in 1842 and was designed by the former convict architect, James Blackburn. The present church building was designed by Alexander North and was opened in 1902, replacing the earlier building which had become unsafe.
This lovely building is a living part of Launceston's continuing heritage as well as a living, vibrant, Christian community. The building is open 10am to 1pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday. The best time to enjoy the full glory of the building and the music of the organ is at the 9:30 Sunday morning service.
Everyone is most welcome. To find out more about our church, its story, and its ministries, please visit the website.
ART ARK HQ, housed on the top floor of an old sawtooth building, shares an impressive collection of Aboriginal Art and educational resources with a clear and transparent focus on ethical trading.
Working exclusively with community-run, not-for-profit Aboriginal Art centres, ART ARK shares its passion for Aboriginal Art with visitors.
8.30 am to 12.30 pm, every Saturday, rain hail or shine, they transform the car park at 71 Cimitiere Street into Northern Tasmania's biggest authentic farmers' market.
Since 2012, Harvest has established itself as a signature weekly event in the CBD, where the community gathers to shop, share a coffee and feast on a diverse array of local offerings, dictated only by the colour palette of Tasmania's four distinct seasons.
The Albert Hall holds a special place in Launceston's story. Since 1891, it has brought people together for performances, exhibitions, conferences, celebrations and community events.
Today, four distinctive spaces combine heritage character with contemporary amenities, creating opportunities for events ranging from intimate gatherings to major productions, with each space available individually or in combination to create an event tailored to your vision.
This leafy pocket of the city is wonderful to wander through or spend a while.
Enjoy a picnic on the wide spaces of grass drenched in sunshine, or laze beneath a tree with a good book.
Be sure to visit the John Hart Conservatory, duck pond and Macaque primate enclosure. There's a playground for the kids and barbeque facilities if you're feeling hungry. Play some chess on the giant board or peruse the collection of mature trees and annual foliage.
Greenoaks Gallery in Launceston has been a unique and much loved neighbourhood business for many years. The gallery presents a diverse range of quality artworks and the opportunity to meet the artist who created them.
The Gallery showcases a captivating collection of diverse mediums and subjects, with displays that are in a state of constant evolution. Visitors often express astonishment at the sheer quantity and variety of artworks, frequently surprised to discover that they all originate from a single artist, Dan Villiers.
Among the myriad of mediums featured are pastel, oil, acrylic, encaustic, pencil, and charcoal. Here, one can explore Tasmanian landscapes, still life arrangements, portraits, and an array of other themes.
Located at the picturesque park at St Georges Square. Locals enjoy strolling and picnicking in the shady green park. Cafes can be found around the park and in neighbouring streets. Just ask the staff at the gallery for directions. Ample parking is available right by the gallery.
Getting to Greenoaks Gallery is quick and easy. It is a very short drive up the hill from the Launceston CBD. Or if you prefer a slower approach, take in the sights of Launceston via one of the buses that stop close to the gallery.
