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THE ESSENTIALS

The Museum re-opened on 1 August and we are looking forward to receiving visitors again.

We do ask that you observe Covid-19 safety practices, and not visit if you are unwell.

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OUR OPENING HOURS ARE

26 December – 30 April:
1.00-5.00pm every day

1 May – 24 December:
1.00-4.00pm Saturday & Sunday

Closed Christmas Day and Good Friday
Click here for visits by appointment

Admission: $5.00
Payment by cash or phone banking app transfer. No cards.

Most visitors find at least an hour is needed for a visit to the Museum. Read more>

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THE MUSEUM COLLECTION

The permanent collection is on display in five small buildings at the Museum site. Read more>

Temporary exhibitions on particular themes are also staged through the year. Read more>

Current temporary exhibition:
Lonely Graves of the Furneaux Islands
Read more>

Next exhibition – opening October:
Tragedies and Triumphs – Shipwrecks in the Furneaux Group

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NEWS

The Museum raised over $3,000 in January from the raffle and auction of several iconic Tasmanian wilderness photographs donated to us by the Queen Victoria Museum. The money will go towards restoration of our red telephone box dating from the early 1990s.

One of the Funeaux Museum’s most interesting artefacts, a silk embroidered postcard dating from WW1, was chosen to feature in the exhibition 10 Objects – 10 Stories. This exhibition was to go on show at the Queen Victoria Museum in Launceston from May to September this year but has been deferred due to Covid-19.

The Second Flinders Island Antiques Roadshow planned for June 2020, has been deferred due to Covid-19.

Stage 2 of the Furneaux Geotrail will be completed during the scond half of 2020. Last year the Furneaux Museum partnered with Parks & Wildlife to create 10 Geotrail visitor sites on Flinders Island, all accessible by car. Stage 2 will cover more remote sites.

Ours is the second Geotrail in Tasmania (the other is on the West Coast). The Geotrail uses a mobile web app and minimal signage to provide information about the landscape at each site. Read more about the Furneaux Geotrail here>

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