Museums

 Dunn Pl, Hobart TAS 7000, Australia +61 3 6165 7000 Website 10am – 4pm Hobart Campervan Hire

fryrupture (contributor)

The Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery.

I confess: I have NEVER been inside this museum. I always tell myself I will go see the place but something else always take my attention away.

The museum was established by The Royal Society of Tasmania. This is the oldest Royal Society outside England and was established by Sir John Franklin, the explorer.

If you are ever in Hobart and likes visiting museums and galleries, give this place a whirl.
The architecture itself is worth a look.

Opening hours (entrance 40 Macquarie Street):
10am-5pm daily except Good Friday, ANZAC Day (25th April) and Christmas Day (25th December)

General Admission is FREE.
Charges are made for some special exhibitions.

glumseed (contributor)

The Annual Breakfast for Hope held recently at the MONA in Berriedale organised by the Fight Cancer Foundation was a roaring success with special guest Brynne Edelsten (Star of My Bedazzled Life) with around a hundred guests attending to raise funds for the John Opie House to benefit cancer patients and their families.

We got to meet the former reality star and promoted a good cause- fighting cancer.

The rest of my article at AUSINFORMER.COM:

Showing up in crutches with a bandaged sore foot, Edelsten, smarting a casual outfit- peach jacket on a stripey long dress till gladly posed for photos with some of the patrons and supporters of the fund raising event.

They hoped to raise $15,000 for the “home away from home” place in Murray Street, Hobart for Tasmanian patients and their families who have to travel to Hobart for medical treatment.

Samantha Kanizay, one of the event’s organisers told AUSINFORMER that Brynne herself donated $2,000 to the project and around 20 local businesses and social groups served as donors among them the Caring Quilters, Frogmore Creek Wines, Invidia Hair,Southern Cross Television Network, and many more who gave prizes for the raffle held on the day.

Major prizes included a wheelbarrow of goodies from Mitre 10 in Kingston and an autographed copy of Ron Barassi’s Autobiography. Shopping vouchers from $125 to $250 were also given by the generous sponsors-Jan and Lloyd Clark, Meadowbank Estate, Ella Bache Hobart and Alberto and Natalia Vanetti of Invidia Hair.

Held at the Eros and Thanos rooms of the MONA (Museum of Old and New Art) , guests paid $60 for single tickets and $550 for a table of ten with about 15 tables booked for this years fund raising. A wait staff said Ms Edelsten sipped some champagne and had some scrambled eggs. The blonde and buxom socialite had been in the limelight again for her “new trimmed look.”

Brynne told this writer it was her first time to visit Tasmania and she liked it, but wouldn’t have much time to look around yet as her relatives were in Australia visiting too.

She said she’s always been a supporter of worthy causes and projects like this event and so she didn’t hesitate to agree being involved with Breakfast for Hope.

In the reality show “My Bedazzled Life”, the then 29-year-old wide eyed girl from Phoenix, Arizona, and Geoffrey, 69, her multimillionaire husband shared their life to the public to reveal their extraordinarily glamorous lifestyle at their luxury penthouse apartment.

Brynne has appeared in several showbiz television programs like Dancing with the Stars and other Red Carpet affairs often resplendent in eye-catching wardrobes at the TV Week Logie Awards, the AFL Brownlow Medal and the Melbourne Cup , among others.

MONA is a a delightful venue as aside from its wonderful exhibits, it also has accommodation packages for tourists, a winery, restaurant and pavillions for various functions. It is located at 655 Main Road, Berriedale, Tasmania, Australia.
Contact

+61 (3) 6277 9900
info@mona.net.au
Opening Hours

Wed-Mon
10am-6pm

Website-http://www.mona.net.au/

glickyhaley (contributor)

We found this a most informative and worthwhile museum. It gave us a better feel of Hobart and especially its history, which we didn’t have until we went here.
The tour is self guided with printed out information, so you can wander through at your leisure.

stownbear (contributor)

Possible the best museum and art gallery in Australia! The largest private collection of art and artefacts in the Southern Hemisphere. And it is located in a vineyard only a few miles from Hobart CBD – BLISS.
Art, Artifacts, vineyard, restaurant, cafe, wine tasting, beer tasting, bar
You can take a ferry from the docks in Hobart , spend a day there…

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