Art - Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
Art - Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
Art - Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
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Exhibits<br />
• Noticing Nature * – a small exhibition space in the Zoology<br />
<strong>Gallery</strong> presenting a series of short-term displays on a<br />
variety of natural history topics. During the year the<br />
following topics were covered:<br />
Cicadas <strong>and</strong> Mud Wasps<br />
Spring Season Characteristics<br />
Hide & Seek (animal camouflage)<br />
Summer Season Characteristics<br />
Blue Tongue & Blow Flies<br />
Miena Jewel Beetle & Threatened Species<br />
Autumn Season Characteristics<br />
Hover Fly & Portuguese Millipedes<br />
Winter Season Characteristics<br />
Firewood Fauna<br />
• Tasmania: A Special Isl<strong>and</strong> * – the live spider display was<br />
continued during the year.<br />
• Major upgrading of the following mammal exhibits took<br />
place during the year:<br />
The Thylacine<br />
Macropods<br />
Possums in Tasmania<br />
INVERESK<br />
Permanent<br />
• Strings across time – Tasmanian Aboriginal Shell Necklaces *<br />
• Aspects of Tasmanian <strong>Art</strong> *<br />
• Objects of Design – Gifted Works*<br />
• Pacific Encounters *<br />
• Katachi – Traditional Japanese Design *<br />
• Blacksmith Shop *<br />
• Transforming the Isl<strong>and</strong>: Railways in Tasmania *<br />
• Past Lives, New Beginnings: Migration <strong>and</strong> Tasmania *<br />
• Heritage Trail * including:<br />
Fenton’s Stables – The Railway Institute<br />
Weighbridge<br />
Signal Box<br />
Signwriters Shop<br />
Penny Smith, Luminosity: Objects of Light Suite, 2000/2001.Part ofInside Design,<br />
Mezzanine <strong>Gallery</strong>, Inveresk.<br />
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