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landmark. You can easily spend ancient Egyptian mummies to some amused! Most areas of MONA are
an afternoon discovering the tight of the world’s most recognised and wheelchair accessible.
network of lanes and winding streets provocative contemporary art.
around Battery Point lined with
beautiful Victorian houses.
With around 300 art works on
exhibition, the collection covers
Indulge in food, wine and beer
Award-winning restaurants offer
three floors within a subterranean fine dining experiences using the best
MONA architectural masterpiece. The local produce, while on the waterfront
One of Tassie’s leading attractions lowest level of the Museum includes punts and fishmongers sell fresh
is The Museum of Old and New Art a 240-million-year-old, 12-metre- seafood straight from the Southern
(MONA) which is Australia’s largest high sandstone wall, which feels like Ocean. The Coal River Valley has
private museum and one of the most the perfect setting for an Indiana become Tasmania’s fastest growing
controversial private collections of Jones movie. Death, sex and religion wine region. Quality wines can be
modern art and artifacts in the world. feature heavily at MONA so it’s not sampled at Puddleduck Vineyard,
Described by its owner David Walsh for everyone. Be sure to enter with Frogmore Creek and Coal Valley
as a “subversive adult Disneyland”, an open mind as you’ll be shocked, Vineyard. Morrilla Winery Estate also
the museum displays everything from inspired, confused, cultured and operates a cellar door, wine bar and
restaurant at the MONA site.
The Cascade Brewery Company,
established in 1824, is located at
the foot of the imposing Mount
Wellington with a dazzling backdrop.
The Cascade estate was originally a
saw milling operation and features a
magnificent gothic sandstone façade.
Here, Australia’s oldest operating
brewery crafts a range of beers and
ciders from pure Tasmanian water
sourced from Mount Wellington.
Day trips
Beyond the Hobart city limits,
riverside villages, rolling farmland,
historic towns and native bushland
are just a short drive away. Popular
day trip destinations include Bruny
Island, Port Arthur, Richmond, the
Huon and Derwent Valleys and Mount
Field National Park. Bruny Island is
accessed via a short car-ferry ride
from Kettering, 30