- 類別：
- 娛樂及藝術 - 美術
- 簡介：
- The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery aims to provide,
promote and facilitate interaction with, and understanding of, the cultural and natural world for present and future generations. - 隱私等級類別：
- 開放性社團：所有內容對外公開。
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Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Join- 名稱：
- Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
- 類別：
- 娛樂及藝術 - 美術
- 簡介：
- The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery aims to provide,
promote and facilitate interaction with, and understanding of, the cultural and natural world for present and future generations. - 隱私等級類別：
- 開放性社團：所有內容對外公開。
- 新聞：
- RECENT NEWS:
Midwinter’s Night at the Museum
22/06/2009
The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery opened its doors to the public friday night for a feast of interactive entertainment to celebrate the opening of the Antarctic Midwinter Festival.
TMAG opened from 6.30pm to 8.30pm for 'A Midwinter's Night at the Museum', and recieved a high rate of attendance to the event, with 4,125 people coming through the doors over the course of two hours.
The night's festivities started at 6.00pm, with a flock of ‘Snow Petrels’, a children’s parade with hand-made candle-lit lanterns, moving along Hunter Street on Hobart’s waterfront.
The parade made its way to the historic Watergates of the TMAG, which were ceremoniously opened to reveal an evening of family-friendly entertainment.
The TMAG courtyard and commissariat were alive with mad scientists, giant telescopes, dancing fish and tumbling penguins.
Those attending were also treated to a sneak peak of the stunning images in the Bond Store’s Extreme Environment Photography Exhibition, and a rare evening viewing of the Island to Ice exhibition, complete with historians and scientists on hand to explain the fascinating story of the last great wilderness on Earth – Antarctica.
“The Antarctic Midwinter Festival is a ten-day celebration of Tasmania’s living and historical links with Antarctica. It includes dozens of events, including exhibitions, talks, tours and lectures,” said Festival Director, Paul Cullen.
Over a period of nine days, Tasmanians will be enthralled and delighted by a series of events that are both entertaining and educational.
The Antarctic Midwinter Festival will run until June 28. For further information and details on events, please visit www.antarctic-tasmania.info or call 6233 5493.
See the photos on facebook!
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The popular Patricia Piccinini exhibition 'Evolution' has now closed.
Over the period of the exhibition, TMAG recieved over 100,000 visitors!
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TMAG a hub of activity
22/05/2009
The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery was buzzing with activity last night, playing host to emerging artists and Federal Ministers in two major events.
The Environment Protection and Heritage Council were treated to an exclusive guided tour of TMAG’s unique Colonial Gallery by Director Bill Bleathman before being seated for a meal.
Members of the EPHC, including Federal Minister for Environment, Heritage and Arts Peter Garret, and Tasmanian Minister for Environment, Parks, Heritage and the Arts Michelle O’byrne, were given an in-depth insight into some of Australia’s most significant Colonial paintings.
The EPHC, consisting of Commonwealth and State Ministers of Australia and representatives from New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, are holding a meeting in Hobart today to discuss issues of environment and heritage conservation and protection.
Last night was also the official opening of the 2009 Moorilla Scholarship exhibition, featuring works of scholarship recipients Alicia King and James Newitt. Alicia and James are both Hobart artists who experiment in very different forms of creative media. Approximately 250 people braved the cold to acknowledge the work of the emerging artists.
James’ material for ‘Show Me the Truth and I’ll Show You More of the Same’ was developed during a recent residency in Los Angeles, and looks at the narratives based in fiction and reality. Using video, photography and text, James presents the idea that these concepts of real and fantasy are in fact not mutually exclusive, but rather exist in correlation to one another.
Alicia’s ‘The Ephemeral Flesh Projects’ explores the concept of living tissue existing outside of the human body through the use of biological technologies. The central piece ‘all of the things I know about you’ displays living human tissue growing in a glass bioreactor acting as an artificial body. The tissue will continue to grow throughout the duration of the exhibition.
The Moorilla Scholarship exhibition is on in the Bond Store until June 7.
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TMAG recognised for outstanding design
The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery has received two awards in this year’s Museums Australia Multimedia and Publication Design Awards.
TMAG’s popular coffee-table book Collection received an award in the MAPDA Books category. Designed by TMAG’s own Graphic Design Coordinator, Hannah Gamble, Collection is an in-depth look at some of the TMAG’s hidden treasures both on display and within the State Collection.
Museum Australia’s Small Catalogue category was awarded to the exhibition catalogue for Anne Ferran, the Ground the Air designed by well-known designer Linda Warner. Anne Ferran’s popular exhibition ran at TMAG from the 28th of November 2008 to the 22nd of February this year, and was a contemporary Art Exhibition produced in collaboration with the Detached foundation and the University of Tasmania.
The Museums Australia Multimedia and Publication Design Awards recognise the hard work and talent of designers and publishers in a cultural context across Australia.
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UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS:
Tayenebe – Tasmanian Aboriginal fibre-work
4 July – 29 November 2009
Tayenebe is a Tasmanian Aboriginal word meaning ‘exchange’. Tayenebe is also the name of an art project underway in which Tasmanian Aboriginal women are reviving traditional fibre skills as part of a larger process of reclaiming culture. Integral to Tayenebe is sharing between people and across time. A series of fibre workshops facilitated by Arts Tasmania will culminate in an exhibition opening at TMAG during NAIDOC week 2009, and tour major Australian cultural venues from January 2010.
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City of Hobart Art Prize 2009
3 July – 9 August 2009
This annual prize exhibition rewards artists from around Australia and focuses on two disciplines each year. The categories for this year’s prize are Sculpture and Works on Paper with the winning works becoming part of the Hobart City Councils impressive collection. The Art Prize exhibition is a great way to see emerging trends in Australian Art.
