Reflect on our city with creative eyes in an informal sketching and watercolour session with architect and artist Ian Johnson. This session takes place outside Brooke Street Pier, providing many different outlooks across the Derwent River, through to Salamanca and up to kunanyi/Mt Wellington.
Beneath the inconspicuous Bank Arcade are the remains of Hobart’s oldest known building. Join owner John Short for a stickybeak of the layers of this historic site, and hear the tales of previous owners through photographs, artwork and archaeology. If only these walls could talk.
This abandoned zoo once housed a wide variety of animals including lions, tigers, leopards, elephants, monkeys and polar bears, and is most notably remembered as the home of the last captive thylacine (died 1936). Wander amongst the remains of old animal enclosures at this fascinating site.
Architect, Robert Morris-Nunn, will take you on a 90-minute walking tour through Hobart’s major waterfront buildings and provide insight into the various ‘shed’ projects he and his team have designed within Sullivans Cove.
Hobart’s former Forestry building, now The Forest, is being transformed into a vibrant hub for learning, research, and community in the city’s Midtown precinct. Designed by Woods Bagot with builders Hansen Yuncken, the project restores Morris-Nunn and Associates’ 1997 structure, including its iconic 22-metre glass dome, while reinstating the native urban forest beneath. New buildings […]
Constructed in 1911 as the Philip Smith Training College, the Philip Smith Centre is an important example of ‘hygienic’ design, which values light and ventilation. It references the Gothic character of the adjacent Domain House, while being an Arts and Crafts building and has been maintained as a community education building since 1997. Lovell Chen […]
A schoolhouse that has stood the test of time with several incarnations as an educational institution – opening in 1850 as the High School of Hobart Town, becoming the University of Tasmania in 1892, and subsequently used by a variety of Tasmanian educational institutions – it became known as Domain House in the 1970s and […]
The façade of the State Library of Tasmania (now Libraries Tasmania) is the earliest example of a Modernist glass curtain wall in Hobart, with sleek mid-century details throughout. Come and explore The Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts which features nationally significant Tasmanian colonial art, books, and objects.
Located in the old Hobart Fire Brigade’s 1911 Head Station, the Tasmania Fire Museum houses a collection of the state’s fire-fighting history, including a hand-drawn fire pump from 1826. Please note that the station is operational and may be closed if an incident occurs.