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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
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