Featured objects 29. Child’s tricycle horse and cart – a willingness to play 71. Joe Lyons’ pocket watch – Tasmania’s Prime Minister 63. Articulated skeleton of a thylacine - the Tasmanian tiger 68. Peter Dombrovskis’ canoe – seeking the unknowable 9. William Valentine’s microscope – on the bones of bushrangers 1. Commissariat Complex – supplying the colony Select an object 1. Commissariat Complex – supplying the colony 2. Salmon ova transport box – fish eggs from across the sea 3. The platypus – paradox of the Antipodes 4. Forester kangaroo – food for a nation? 5. Charles Underwood’s snakebite antidote 6. King Island emu bones – the Empress and extinction 7. Winifred Curtis’ Vasculum – collecting botanical knowledge 8. Coral lichen - a scientific first 9. William Valentine’s microscope – on the bones of bushrangers 10. Sperm whale candles – light from a dark place 11. Sprent theodolite – mapping the colony 12. Land grant to James Hannaway - dividing up the colony 13. The Cawthorn cup – early silver and an agricultural prize 14. Model of Old Government House – a shadow of colonial power 15. The drawing room at Bishopstowe – a rare view of the colonial interior 16. The Practical Cabinet Maker, Upholsterer and Complete Decorator 17. Cessation of transportation medal – Wash’d out the hated stain 18. Punishment Box – control by a black box 19. Toy Sailor – invading lutruwita 20. Jacob Mountgarrett’s buttons – a dubious character 21. Tasmanian Aboriginal glass scraper – exchanging technologies 22. Stanhope Press – invading words 23. Tasmanian Aboriginal spear – Black War armoury 24. Convict-made shoes – walking the line 25. TMAG’s photographic collection – a window into time and place 26. Private Secretary’s Cottage – a hidden gem overlooking the foreshore 27. Egyptian mummy and sarcophagus – creating wonder with an object from afar 28. Wynyardia – an ancient marsupial possum 29. Child’s tricycle horse and cart – a willingness to play 30. Offshore whaling with the Aladdin and Jane 31. Fox head trophy – a very dangerous game 32. West Coast Sea Monster 33. Wedge-tailed eagles – our largest bird of prey 34. The Museum Cart – culture on the roll 35. tuylini (Stringybark Canoe) – revival of ancient skills 36. Spongelite tool – an ancient trade 37. Governor Arthur’s Proclamation Board – one-sided law 38. William Lanne’s pipe- digging up bodies 39. Fanny Cochrane Smith recordings – songs of survival 40. Pilunimina’s (Flora’s) shell necklace – cultural continuity 41. Tasmanian Aboriginal woven basket – stringing community together 42. Memorial death plaque or ‘Dead Man’s Penny’ 43. Stolen generations – Annette Peardon’s Speech – a parliamentary first 44. String-of-beads fossil – life at the very dawn of time 45. Lune River petrified fern – a fossil forest of world renown 46. Skull of Zygomaturus trilobus – the marsupial rhinoceros 47. Tasmanian dolerite – Tasmania’s curse? 48. Tasmania’s Giant freshwater lobster – the world’s largest freshwater invertebrate 49. Deciduous beech – a winter story 50. Tasmanian devil – Australia’s largest surviving marsupial predator 51. The jack jumper – Tasmania’s killer ant 52. Giant crab – a goliath amongst crustaceans 53. Giant kelp – an underwater forest 54. Spotted handfish – the fish that walks 55. Huon Pine – a truly ancient species 56. Crocoite – Tasmania’s mineral emblem 57. Stichtite in serpentine – a smelting good gemstone 58. Killiecrankie diamonds (topaz) – perfect basal cleavage 59. Darwin Glass – a meteorite strike and a tradable tool 60. A forest giant – the tallest flowering trees in the world 61. Tasmanian cave spider – an ancient lineage gone to ground 62. Common brushtail possum – a gift to royalty 63. Articulated skeleton of a thylacine - the Tasmanian tiger 64. Computer Cat – television star! 65. Tom Pickering’s clarinet – bringing jazz to Tasmania 66. Carbide lamp – the darkness of Tasmania’s worst mining disaster 67. Willard Pan – mixing chocolate dreams 68. Peter Dombrovskis’ canoe – seeking the unknowable 69. Food drop bag – into wild places they roamed 70. Sailor hat – Australia’s first female navy recruit- at 6 71. Joe Lyons’ pocket watch – Tasmania’s Prime Minister 72. ‘No Dams’ – 25 years of environmental stickers 73. If They Fall – video art emerges 74. Reception Suite- an eye for detail 75. Continuous Plankton Recorder (Type II CPR) – the census of the sea 76. Charles Harrisson’s Ice Axe – A Tasmanian on ice 77. Borchgrevink’s sled – Antarctica’s oldest vehicle? 78. Polus Antarcticus map – arriving on the map 79. Hobart General Hospital Meritorious Service Gold award – hard and dangerous work 80. London Exhibition Medal and Crystal Palace postcard- on show to the empire 81. Holey dollar and dump – the first official coins 82. Bank of Van Diemen’s One pound banknote – Tasmania’s first bank 83. Woureddy (Wurati) – an Aboriginal chief of Van Diemen’s Land 84. The Conciliation – the National Picture? 85. Hamilton Inn sofa – the beginnings of Design Island? 86. Four Children of Joseph Tice Gellibrand – an enigmatic painter 87. Edward Lord (1781-1859) – an ignoble nobleman 88. My Harvest Home – painting the ‘new’ Australian landscape 89. The Risby clock – idiosyncratic inflections 90. Carved fire surrounds by Sarah Squire Todd – birth of the Arts and Crafts Society 91. The Artists’s Studio (Paris) - modernism on the island 92. Vase by Maud Poynter – pioneering studio potter 93. Zinc Works – the aesthetics of the urban environment 94. Platter by Les Blakebrough – an influential ceramicist 95. Decanter and glasses by Richard Marquis – craft revival in the 70’s 96. Horizontal chair by David Ralph – from engineer to furniture-maker 97. Cape Barren Goose Cabinet by Kevin Perkins – foremost furniture design 98. Florentine Valley - Displaced Landscape 99. Place II – a place founded on conflict 100. Essy’s daypack – living free of fear 101. Melaleuca Float - the last tin smelter in Australia 102. Gladstone bag Gallery location Our living land: Encountering an upside down world Our changing land: Creating Tasmania Our land: parrawa, parrawa! go away! The Central Gallery ningina tunapri Tasmania, Earth and Life The Thylacine. Skinned, stuffed, pickled and persecuted The Power of Change Temporary Galleries Islands to Ice Medals and Money Dispossessions and Possessions Modern Age Progress and Politics Salon Gallery The Foyer Off Display
