The Beaker Street Festival Hub at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery is a pop-up science bar, a parlour of curiosities, an inn for inquiring minds. Here, at the bustling Festival centre, you’ll find live music, zoological oddities, photographic inspiration, amiable wandering scientists, seriously good food and drink, and such a bounty of distractions that you may forget to go home. If you’ve never explored TMAG after dark, here’s your chance.
This year, every single thing at the Festival Hub will be free and unticketed — and expanded.
Our ever-popular Roving Scientist Bar will take over the Central Gallery. Pull up a bar stool and chat with a seemingly endless variety of local and visiting scientists. Here you’ll also find live music, dancing, scientific performances (think geek talent show), exhibitions, and of course a bar serving up the best boozy and boozeless beverages Tassie has to offer.
What else? Oh, SO much. Here are some highlights:
- The Sonic Pavillion in the Watergate Courtyard, featuring a stellar program of local live bands all night long. Grab a G&T, a whisky, or a hot mulled cider and dance the night away.
- The Science Photography Prize finalists exhibition. Come along to vote for the People’s Choice Winner.
- An outdoor installation of Duncan Meerding’s stunning Stump Lights.
- The Microscopy and Oddities Booth, teeming with curious specimens and the scientists who study them
- The Co-Lab exhibition in the Bond Store. We’ve teamed up high school arts students with research scientists for the past few months, in an open-ended experiment. Check out the results.
- The Speakers Table, where our featured presenters will be joining us for a chat after each performance at the Theatre Royal.
- The Young Tassie Scientists after hours. Drop in for 15-minute lessons. It’s like school but with beer.
- Interactive AI
- Much, much more.