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  • 25 May 2023 5:30 PM | Anonymous

    This floor talk is facilitated by Kate Warner, as she converses with Ann Cripps about the research undertaken for Ann's recent book, Gardeners, Plant Collectors, Friends: Hobart Town and Beyond. Ann's book explores the early colonists who brought European flora to the colony of Van Diemen’s Land, and also sent endemic Tasmanian plants to collectors overseas. As you follow Ann’s research you will meet Quakers, botanists, doctors, horticulturalists and nurserymen who were instrumental in bringing Tasmania’s flora to the wider world.

    To view the slide presentation while listening to the audio, see Anne Cripps Gardens-compressed.pdf

    To read notes by Sheena Sims about the embroidery on the table cover by Catherine Augusta Mitchell, which was on display as a special feature of this event, click here.


  • 17 May 2023 10:30 AM | Anonymous

    This talk is presented by Peter Hughes, TMAG's Senior Curator, Decorative Arts. He reveals the genesis of colonial Tasmania's timber industry, focusing on the use of indigenous timbers in cabinet-making and the increasing acceptance and showcasing                                                                                                                                                                                                               of them as suitable timber to use. 

    To view Peter's slide show while listening to his presentation, click here.



  • 04 May 2023 6:29 PM | Anonymous

    This talk is presented by Dr Sally Bryant AM, Hon. Research Fellow, Tasmanian Land Conservancy and Chair of the Forty-spotted Pardalote National Recovery Program.

    Sally highlights the plight of this plucky Tasmanian bird that is on the brink of extinction and what can be done to save it.


  • 22 Apr 2023 8:30 PM | Anonymous


    Senior Painting Conservator Jenny O’Connell and Conservation Technician Lisa Charleston made a special presentation to the Friends of TMAG on the treatment and research undertaken for Behind the Layers and show how the conservators have been able to solve these mysteries through their work and discussed current painting and frame treatments.

  • 13 Apr 2023 5:30 PM | Anonymous

    This talk is presented by Keren Ruki, TMAG’s Pacific curator, First Peoples Art and Culture, and is co-curator of taypani milaythina-tu. Keren talks about the development of the exhibition, and goes behind the scenes to look at the logistics of setting it up, the research undertaken, and the negotiations involved to bring the ancestral objects home.

    The exhibition presents the creative work of twenty Tasmanian Aboriginal artists responding to relationships between community and ancestral objects, particularly those held in institutions overseas and currently on view in this exhibition.



  • 30 Mar 2023 10:30 AM | Anonymous

    TMAG Technical Officer, Dr Judy Clarke is funded by a partnership between TMAG, TasNetworks and Woolnorth Renewables to investigate the mortality of Tasmania's endangered birds of prey. In this presentation Judy describes how she uses forensic and veterinary tools to determine causes of death and develop strategies to avert those dangers.

    To view Judy's slide presentation while listening to her talk, click here.


  • 25 Feb 2023 10:30 AM | Anonymous

    Senior Curator of Vertebrate Zoology and Palaeontology, Dr David Hocking, presents the history of Tasmanian palaeontology as recorded in the collections of TMAG.
    David discusses Tasmania's earliest fauna to our current marsupials and what the recent research, using new digital tools, has unearthed.

    To view David's slide presentation while listening to his talk, click here.


  • 17 Nov 2022 10:30 AM | Anonymous

    TMAG's Contemporary Migrant Experience Project Officer, Grace Williams, updates members with what she has been doing in this project in the two years it has been running.

    To view Grace's slide presentation while listening to her fascinating talk, click here.

  • 10 Sep 2022 3:50 PM | Anonymous

    Read all about what we've been doing over the past twelve months.

    Agenda 22-Minutes 21.pdf

    Presidents Report 21-22.pdf

    Treasurers Report 21-22.pdf

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