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26 April 2022
Find out how to blow up a balloon using a chemical reaction! Make balloon-powered cars and rockets! This event is for children ages 5–12 years and is fully supervised.
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24 April 2022
The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery has a large and significant collection of thylacine specimens, however, many more came into the museum than currently exist in the collection. This presentation will explain the fate of…
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8 April 2022 - 10 April 2022
The East Coast Harvest Odyssey, known as ECHO Festival, is back for another year! Hosted in the picturesque wine country on the fringes of Swansea, the 2022 program brings together chefs, winemakers and producers along…
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27 March 2022
The transition of a simple cell into a complex one, billions of years ago, is the reason we share the planet with millions of species today. Indrani Mukherjee will be discussing her research, which focuses…
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27 February 2022
Antarctica is one of the most extreme and unusual environments on Earth. This presentation will explore the lessons we have learned about human psychological health and performance in Antarctica and how we can apply this…
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16 January 2022
BirdLife Tasmania is returning to observe the summer community of birds in Native Point Nature Reserve on the Tamar River, which is good for honeyeaters, birds of prey, forest birds, and waders and waterbirds in…
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21 December 2021 - 31 January 2022
Explore the Museum at Inveresk as you search for clues hidden within our collection and exhibitions on display. Find the answer to the final question and enter the competition to go in the running to…
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28 November 2021
The Royal Society of Tasmania, Northern Branch, invites you to a public lecture by Emeritus Professor Greg Woods. Transmissible cancers are rare. However, Tasmanian devils are dying from two transmissible cancers that comprise Devil Facial…
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13 November 2021
Join Museum Collections Officer and expert insect preparator, Simon Fearn, as he demonstrates the methods used to perfectly pin butterflies and moths. Find out about the equipment and consumables needed to prepare and preserve your collection.…
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26 October 2021 - 16 November 2021
Discover how butterfly collections chart climate and landscape change, and what it means for butterfly survival. Built through 50 years of butterfly research, experts Ian Knight and Trevor Lambkin amassed a private collection of over…
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24 October 2021
Breathing New Life outlines the journey of the Cressy Research Station, founded in 1937 and becoming a Land Army training centre through the Second World War, then a farmer training facility and then a centre…
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21 October 2021
Dr Kim Beasy and Dr Annabelle Workman will discuss findings from the recent Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and consider its implications for local climate change and education for…