This list of museums in Tasmania, Australia, contains museums that are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries.
| Name | Location | Region | Type | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Library | Part of the State Library of Tasmania, 19th century period rooms, changing exhibits of art and history from its collections | |||
| Sport | website | |||
| Avoca Museum | Local | Located in a historic school building[1] | ||
| North West | History | website, 19th century life | ||
| North | Maritime | website | ||
| Northern | Mining | Former gold mine with buildings and equipment | ||
| History | website, located on Bruny Island, specialised collection relating to various explorations in the South Pacific | |||
| North West | Art | website, | ||
| North West | History | website, Features a Federation Street (complete with a saddler and boot maker's shop, a blacksmith's forge, printer, photographer and even a dentist), an extensive photographic collection and temporary exhibitions. | ||
| Art | website, city art gallery | |||
| Prison | Former Australian workhouse for female convicts in the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land | |||
| Local | website, local history, industries, community life about the D'Entrecasteaux Channel surrounds | |||
| Northern | Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia | ||
| Huon Valley | History | Cygnet Living History Museum At Collections Australia | ||
| Local | information, local pioneer history | |||
| North | Art | website, area contemporary craft and design in wood | ||
| Railway | Heritage railway, currently not operational | |||
| North West | Maritime | website | ||
| North West | Art | website | ||
| North West | Railway | Heritage railway and museum | ||
| Military | website, restored officer's quarters and remains of former fort for the Port Arthur penal settlement | |||
| Historic house | Early 19th century estate house with collection of Regency furniture and fine silver, gardens, a greenhouse, a chapel, a coach house and stables | |||
| Natural history | website, operated by Forestry Tasmania, forestry and natural history of forests | |||
| Northern | Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia | ||
| Local | website | |||
| Mining | Photographs and relics of the mining communities of the past | |||
| Geeveston Forest & Heritage Center | Forestry | Photographs, relics and interactive displays about early settlement and forestry in Far South Tasmania | ||
| Science | Life and work of astronomer Grote Reber, tour of the Mount Pleasant Radio Observatory | |||
| North West | Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia, 20th century home of Prime Minister Joseph Lyons and Dame Enid Lyons | ||
| Agriculture | website, Tasmania 's apple industry | |||
| North West | Science | website, hands-on science displays | ||
| Archaeology | website, operated by the University of Tasmania, art and culture of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, Greece, Etruria and Rome | |||
| Local | website, Operated by The Art Society of Tasmania, which located to the premises in 1949.[2] | |||
| North West | Local | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia, local history displays | ||
| North | Transport | website, historic trams | ||
| Maritime | website | |||
| Historic house | website, operated by the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, exhibitions of Tasmanian history and period rooms, changing exhibitions featuring art and decorative arts | |||
| Maritime | Tasmania's association with the sea, ships and shipbuilding | |||
| Arctic | A replica hut museum about Douglas Mawson and the Australasian Antarctic Expedition | |||
| Military | Located within Anglesea Barracks | |||
| Art | Includes antiquities, modern and contemporary art | |||
| Historic house | website, 19th century period wealthy merchant family's house | |||
| Northern | Transport | website, automobiles, motorcycles, Tasmanian Motor Sport Hall of Fame | ||
| Local | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia, local history displays, historic Masonic lodge | |||
| Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia, features 19th century surgeon's office | |||
| Historic house | website, model village depicting life in Hobart as it was in the 1820s | |||
| North | Technology | website, steam engines, tractors, equipment and memorabilia | ||
| Prison | Former maximum security prison for males and females with chapel and courts | |||
| Art | website, operated by the University of Tasmania, innovative local, national and international contemporary art and design | |||
| Open air | Includes a penitentiary, dock, church, hospital, 19th century period houses | |||
| Prison | ||||
| Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia, 19th century whaling family's house | |||
| North | Multiple | Includes colonial art, contemporary craft and design, Tasmanian history and natural history displays | ||
| North | Multiple | Tasmania's social and natural history including dinosaurs, railway transport, geology, local history | ||
| Art | Includes several galleries | |||
| North | Natural history | website, trout hatchery, museum of trout fishing | ||
| North West | Art Gallery | Small exclusive Art Gallery overlooking Leven River, fine art, photography, glass & timber creations, fabric designs, exquisite jewellery website | ||
| Tasman Historical Museum and Cafe | History | Facebook site, café with local historical artefacts on display | ||
| Sports | website, located in Blundstone Arena | |||
| Multiple | History of Tasmania through every era, geology, natural history, Tasmania's indigenous population, Antarctica, numismatic display, art gallery | |||
| Tasmanian Police Museum | History of the Tasmanian police force, run by the Tasmania Police Historical Group[3] | |||
| Transport | Railway equipment, buses, road vehicles, steam engines | |||
| History | website, retail store, museum with local history exhibits and history of the Tasmanian wool industry | |||
| North West | Culture | information, history, cultures and art of Tasmanian Aboriginal people | ||
| University of Tasmania Galleries | Art | information, works from the Fine Art Collection on exhibit in the Hobart's Plimsoll Gallery, the Academy Gallery in Launceston, and the Atrium Gallery at the Cradle Coast, and on each campus | ||
| North | Technology | information, restored vintage tractors and machinery | ||
| Technology | Equipment and science behind the former power generating station | |||
| North | Prison | information, former prison and local history exhibits | ||
| Maritime | website, history of boatbuilding and water transport | |||
| North | History | website, includes 19th century period house and historic school | ||
| Open air | 19th century farm estate including outbuildings, gardens | |||
| West | History | website, dedicated to the history and pioneers of the West Coast of Tasmania. | ||