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The Hobart Zoo (also known as Beaumaris Zoo) was an old-fashioned zoological garden located on the Queen's Domain in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.The Zoo site is very close to the site of the Tasmanian Governor's House, and the Botanical Gardens.
The Archives Office of Tasmania had been a separate entity from the Tasmanian state library, despite being housed in the same building. [4] [5] The W E Crowther collection was a special component of the State Library prior to the amalgamation, and was frequently referred to as being the major part of the Heritage Collections of the State Library.
The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) is a museum located in Hobart, Tasmania. The museum was established in 1846, by the Royal Society of Tasmania , the oldest Royal Society outside England. The TMAG receives 400,000 visitors annually.
Solitary confinement cell. The Richmond Gaol is a convict era building and tourist attraction in Richmond, Tasmania, and is the oldest intact gaol in Australia.Building of the gaol commenced in 1825, and predates the establishment of the penal colony at Port Arthur in 1833. [1]
One page that is dedicated to celebrating photography from history is Old-Time Photos on Facebook. This account shares digitized versions of photos from the late 1800s all the way up to the 1980s.
1914: First Tasmanian troops leave to fight in World War I; 1914: The town of Bismarck is renamed Collinsvale due to anti-German sentiment inflamed by the war; 1914: State government buys hydro-electric company; 1915: Tasmanian legislation establishes Australia's first special authority to create and manage parks and reserves; 1915: Serious ...
The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is an art museum located within the Moorilla winery on the Berriedale peninsula in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is the largest privately funded museum in the Southern Hemisphere. [2] MONA houses ancient, modern and contemporary art from the David Walsh collection.
The Tasmanian Aborigines were a genetically and culturally isolated population for over 10,000 years, from the end of the last ice age when Tasmania was separated from mainland Australia; this is about the same time for this one small island as the native populations of all the Americas. This was wiped out in a little over half a century.