Quiz night! (09 Jul 2026)

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT

Quiz night!

This event is a special fundraiser for the Friends.

The Cultural Heritage team at TMAG put together a lot of material for the recent television program that didn’t make it onto the screen, so they’d like to test our knowledge of the museum and art gallery’s collection with a quiz tailored to our more discerning audience.

They are also going to bring along some amazing items from the TMAG collection — many never seen before — and you’ll have the opportunity to see them up close.

Quizmasters will be Head Cultural Heritage Dr Jody Steele and Senior Curator Isobel Andrewartha, and with those two in charge we will have a lot of fun — and learn a lot!

We will be seated at tables of 6 but you don’t need to make up a table to come along. Book for yourself and just advise us by email if you’d like to make up a group with others. You are welcome to invite non-member Friends to come along.

There will be prizes for winners!

Friends members $50, non-members $60

includes food and drinks

Geolocation and the landscapes of Derwent Lees (23 Jul 2026)

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:30:00 GMT

Geolocation

and the landscapes of Derwent Lees

Join Peter Davies in the hunt for the lost landscapes of Tasmanian-born artist Derwent Lees (1884–1931). Lees’s biography, published last year by Tasmanian archivist and researcher Lynn Davies, contains a catalogue raisonné of over 450 works. As contributor to this team research effort, retired ecological scientist Peter Davies will talk about ‘geolocating’ the scenes of Lees’s over 280 landscapes.

Lees, successful in the early British Modern Art world, features in major public collections in the UK, Australia, USA and Canada, such as the V&A, Tate, NGV, NGA and locally, at Mona. He exhibited only a quarter of his works, with many untitled paintings sold by his wife after his early death following 13 years in psychiatric hospitals. Dealers have invented many spurious titles, confounding his story.

Peter will explain the challenges and excitement of ‘ground truthing’ his landscapes, an effort crucial to rediscovering this.

Friends members $25, non-members $30

includes refreshments

Friends of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery upcoming events

Quiz night! (09 Jul 2026)

Geolocation and the landscapes of Derwent Lees (23 Jul 2026)