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It’s the last day of Lift Off! 🌷🌟 Come and craft a glorious hat or paint your favourite food to add to the growing Feast. 📅 Saturday 7 October ⏰ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm 📍 TMAG, Dunn Place 🎟 FREE ✨ All ages Full program: tmag.tas.gov.au/liftoff 📸: Al Bett #TMAGLiftOff

Have you tried following our Hidden Creature Gallery trail yet? 🐾👻 This unique augmented reality experience brings alive 25 digital creatures hiding across TMAG. Find one or find them all! 🔎 BYO device📲 📸: Al Bett #TMAGLiftOff

After a quieter Lift Off! Festival experience? Chill out space with twining 📅Thursday 5 October, 10:30 am – 3:30 pm Sound Down Session 📅Monday 9 October, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm 🎟️Bookings: ow.ly/2XVM50PScZy Full program 👉 tmag.tas.gov.au/liftoff 📸: Amy Brown

And we have Lift Off! Come and join us over the next four days for hands-on activities for kids of all ages 🚀 📆Wednesday 4 – Saturday 7 October 2023 ⏰10:00 am – 4:00 pm daily 📍TMAG, Dunn Place ✨All ages Full program 👉 tmag.tas.gov.au/liftoff 📸: Amy Brown #TMAGLiftOff

Only one more sleep until the Lift Off! Festival launches 🚀🌟 Come to our free festival opening event, featuring dance group pakana kanaplila. 📅 Wednesday 4 October ⏰ 9:45 am 📍 Watergate Courtyard, TMAG ✨ All ages Full program: tmag.tas.gov.au/liftoff 📸: Al Bett

This Lift Off! Festival, join artists Edith Perrenot and Rebecca Holmes to create a delicious artwork of your favourite food 🍇🍰 📅 4–6 October ⏰ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm 📍 Centre for Learning and Discovery, TMAG ✨ All ages Program: tmag.tas.gov.au/liftoff 📸: Lucy Parakhina

Lunchtime Live sessions are back this year as part of the Lift Off! Festival. Come and see some of Tassie’s best young buskers 🎷🎼 📅 4–7 October ⏰ 12:30–1:15 pm 📍 Watergate Courtyard, TMAG 🎟 FREE Full program 👉 tmag.tas.gov.au/liftoff 📸: Amy Brown #TMAGLiftOff

This Lift Off! Festival you can help create a paper wonderland for Terrapin's new Theatre Royal production, The Paper Escaper 🌻 📆Wednesday 4 October ⏰10:30–13:00 📍TMAG, Dunn Place ✨7+ years Full program: tmag.tas.gov.au/liftoff 📸: Terrapin/Darcie Richards #TMAGLiftOff

Photo-booth selfies, a silent disco, yummy snacks and the Hidden Creature Gallery. The Museum comes alive after dark for TMAG Up Late 🌟🎧🕺 📅 Friday 6 October ⏰ 6:00–8:00 pm 📍 TMAG, Dunn Place 🎟 $15 – book now 👉 trybooking.com/CLEOF ✨10–16-year-olds only 📸: Amy Brown

Ever wondered what museum objects might say if they came to life? 🐛🦋🐙 This Lift Off! Festival, we are excited to launch the Hidden Creature Gallery @ TMAG, in conjunction with Arena Theatre Company. See the full program for details: tmag.tas.gov.au/liftoff #TMAGLiftOff

pARTicipate is back this weekend! Join artists Jan Peacock and Deb St Leger for a two-hour art workshop exploring colour theory 🎨🌈 📆 Sunday 1 October 2023 ⏰ 1:00–3:00 pm 📍 TMAG, Dunn Place 🎟 $10.00 Book now 👉 trybooking.com/events/landin…

Join the Friends of TMAG this Wednesday for a free public floor talk by former Jayne Wilson Bequest Bursary recipient Yoav Daniel Bar-Ness. For more information and to RSVP, go to 👉 friendsoftmag.org.au 📆 Wednesday 27 September ⏰ 10:30 am 📍 Central Gallery, TMAG 🎟 Free

We're excited to announce the full program for the 2023 Lift Off! Festival for Children and Young People. Get ready for some school holiday fun! 📆 Wednesday 4 – Saturday 7 October 2023 ⏰ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm daily 📍 TMAG, Dunn Place Full program at 👉 tmag.tas.gov.au/liftoff

What’s happening? Good question. Subscribe to TMAG News for the latest on what’s happening around the Museum 📨 👇 tmag.tas.gov.au/enews 📸 Image credit: Fred and Hannah for Brand Tasmania / Beaker Street Festival #tmagnews

TMAG is pleased to present the Grigoryan Brothers’ latest performance, This Is Us: A Musical Reflection of Australia. Experience the magic of this musical duo in our Central Gallery 🎸🎼 📆 Wednesday 22 November 2023 ⏰ 7:00–8:30 pm 🎟️ $35 📲 Book now: ow.ly/pf6350PGGfo

Did you know that TMAG has an albatross collection with over 750 specimens? It has been the focus of a new research paper co-authored by TMAG's Senior Curator of Vertebrate Zoology and Palaeontology, Dr David Hocking. Learn more here: ow.ly/2aYK50PEbo8 📸: Rosie Hastie

✨JOB OPPORTUNITY✨ TMAG is currently looking for an enthusiastic Program Delivery Officer to work with our Public Programs and Learning team. Applications close Sunday 3 September. For more information and to apply, go to 👉 bit.ly/47EqMou

There is less than a week left to see this year’s Beaker Street Science Photography Prize exhibition! You can view the incredible entries in TMAG’s Central Gallery until Sunday 20 August, 10:00am – 4:00 pm daily. 📸: Beaker Street Festival Hub. Image credit: Rémi Chauvin

A reminder that the @BeakerStreetSci Festival Hub kicks off at 6:00 pm this evening at TMAG! The Science Photography Prize exhibition will also be open for viewing 📸 📅 4 & 5 August ⏰ 6:00 pm – midnight / 5:00 pm – midnight 📍 TMAG 🎟 Free and unticketed Come and get cosy.