Founded in 1891, Museum and Art Gallery Queen Victoria is one of the main cultural attractions of the city Lanseston and the largest museum in Australia, is not located in the capital city. The museum houses a magnificent collection of colonial and contemporary art, the exhibition dedicated to the history of Tasmania and the history of the natural sciences, 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 laborers tin mine. There is also a planetarium and the whole operating railway depot of the 19th century. The museum contains a unique Victoria Cross - the highest military award of the United Kingdom, which was awarded posthumously to the Australian sergeant during World War Lewis McGee.

The museum's collections are located in two buildings: a purpose-built building at the Royal Park and the town of Inveresk, where before there is a railway depot. One third of the impressive premises of the former depot now occupied by an art gallery, the rest of the room given to the Academy of Fine Arts - the joint brainchild of the University of Tasmania and the Polytechnic University. Here you can see dinosaur skeletons, death masks Aborigines of Tasmania and the constellations of the southern sky.