The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery’s (TMAG) popular Islands to Ice exhibition has reopened after a major refurbishment.
The exhibition features stories of the Great Southern Ocean and Antarctica with interactive displays, new interpretive material and tales from those who have visited the region.
An extensive collection of objects, artefacts, artworks and specimens from the frozen continent are also on display.
“Tasmania has a longstanding connection with the Southern Ocean, Antarctica and the Sub-Antarctic Islands and Hobart has been an important base since the early exploration of the frozen continent by people from around the world,” Minister for the Arts Madeleine Ogilvie said.
“Islands to Ice celebrates our connection to the frozen continent through the stories of pioneers like Roald Amundsen, who became the first person to reach the South Pole and Sir Douglas Mawson, head of Australia’s first Antarctic expedition which left from Hobart in 1911.”
The exhibition also includes pioneering Antarctic women like Louise Crossley, the second woman to be a station leader for the Australian Antarctic Division at Mawson in 1991, Macquarie Island scientist Caitlyn Selfe and Kerryn Oates, an Antarctic chef.
“As one of Australia’s oldest cultural and scientific organisations and the southernmost state-based museum and art gallery, I am very proud that TMAG has an exhibition dedicated to improving knowledge and understanding of the Great Southern Ocean and Antarctica,” Ogilvie said.
Admission to the exhibit is free.