Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery

The Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery is a museum placed in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. The QVMAG is the most important museum in Australia no longer placed in a capital city. Established in 1891, the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery has a strong reputation for its collection which includes pleasant exhibitions of colonial artwork, modern-day craft and design, Tasmanian records and herbal sciences, mainly a zoology series. There is also a unique exhibition of a complete Chinese temple that became utilized by 19th-century Chinese tin miners, a running planetarium, and shows associated with Launceston's business environment and railway workshops.

The museum additionally homes the Victoria Cross provided to Lewis McGee. The Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery is positioned on web sites, at Royal Park and at Inveresk, the website online of the vintage Launceston Railway Workshops. As a part of its work, the QVMAG has posted several journals referring to Tasmanian ecology and history. These encompass Records of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Occasional Papers of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Technical Reports of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery.