Founded in 1891, the Museum and Art Gallery Queen Victoria is one of the main cultural attractions of the city Lanceston and largest Museum of Australia, located in the capital city. The Museum houses a magnificent collection of colonial and contemporary art, the exhibition dedicated to the history of Tasmanian history and natural science, of particular value is the Zoological collection.

One of the most interesting exhibits – a real Chinese temple, which was built in the 19th century, Chinese workers tin mine. Here is the current planetarium and the whole train depot of the 19th century. In the Museum are unique Victoria cross – the highest military award in the UK, which was awarded posthumously to Australian Sergeant during the First World war, Lewis McGee.

The Museum collection is housed in two buildings: in a specially constructed building in the Royal Park and in the town Inveresk where there has been a railway depot. One third of the impressive premises of the former depot is now an art gallery; other rooms are given over to the Academy of fine Arts – the joint brainchild of the University of Tasmania and the Polytechnic University. Here you can see the dinosaur skeletons, death masks of the aborigines of Tasmania and constellations of the southern sky.