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Accessibility

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    Most of Mona is accessible, with some limitations. Staff can help you navigate. The Museum Box Office and Information Desk have hearing loops available. There are four accessible toilets in the museum, and two in other buildings on site. Refer to the O app while you’re there— it pinpoints useful stuff like the three lifts, parent and carer room, and accessible toilets.

    If you need somewhere quiet for a break, try the parent and carer room on B3. You are also welcome to leave the museum and re-enter, subject to capacity. Speak to gallery staff if you need assistance.

    We recommend catching the ferry to Mona—it’s the best way to get there. If catching the ferry, there is an accessible entrance via tunnel if you need it. If this is you, make yourself known to ferry staff. The ferry departs Hobart from Brooke Street Pier (accessible via lift and ramp entrance). If driving, accessible parking spots are in the main car park, approximately 300m from the museum entrance. Go to the top of the driveway, turn left and look for the signs. Alternatively, get dropped off at the bus stop at the top of the drive, approximately 200m from the museum entrance.

    View detailed information about accessibility at Mona hereopens in a new tab.

    If you have questions, contact Bookings & Enquiries on tickets@mona.net.au or +61 (3) 6277 9978.


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    Hard Core

    A detailed macro cross-section of an ammonite fossil reveals a spiraling sequence of amber-colored chambers lined with crystalline structures. Fine, wavy white lines trace the internal architecture of the shell, creating a complex organic pattern.

    A descent into deep time, and the concealed worlds beneath our feet.

    Exhibition continues through until 29 March 2027. Includes access to the exhibition and the rest of the museum.

    Curated by Jarrod Rawlins and Olivier Varenne

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    Breathe

    A high-resolution close-up of a rock cross-section showing intricate, wavy bands of deep red, iron-grey, and shimmering gold. The geological layers create a dense, rhythmic pattern of undulating lines across the entire frame.

    A new artwork built into Mona’s foundations that sees the artist harness a scientific process to release oxygen molecules trapped inside banded iron ore since the Great Oxidation Event some 2.4 billion years ago; and where you, the visitor, will breathe in this ancient air for the very first time it’s ever been breathed since oxygen appeared.


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    spectra

    A powerful vertical beam of white light shoots directly into a starry night sky from a glowing city nestled in a valley of clouds. The Milky Way is visible to the left, and the scene is captured from a high, rocky vantage point overlooking the landscape.

    Ryoki Ikeda’s light-tower returns to Mona to pierce our winter sky.

    Artwork: spectra, 2018, Ryoji Ikeda

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    In Absence

    A view looking straight up from inside a tall, dark cylindrical structure with a keyhole-shaped opening at the top. The bright blue sky and white clouds are framed by the silhouette of the walls, which are studded with small metallic objects.

    A tower rises from the foreshore bisected by a slice of nothing, from Kokatha / Nukunu artist Yhonnie Scarce and Edition Office architects Kim Brigland and Aaron Roberts, referencing Aboriginal stone eel traps and housing 1600 murnong or ‘daisy yam’ tubers blown in black glass.

    In Absence was originally commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria and awarded the 2019 NGV Architecture Commission.

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    Sex + Death Day Club

    A perspective shot looking down a narrow, dimly lit corridor lined with heavy red velvet curtains. The floor is covered in a patterned carpet with swirling gold and purple designs that lead toward a dark, shrouded doorway.

    Same same but different. A nightclub in the daytime, where you can still make plenty of bad decisions, but also drink cocktails and sample snacks from the Void Bar’s special Dark Mofo menu while you relax and take in Ben Salter’s hand-selected bevvy of artists.

    FeaturingAlien Nose Job, Captain Fighting Machine, Dag, Feeding Fauna, Jethro Pickett Band, McKisko, Mess Esque, Michael Plater, Neuromantics, The Pits.
    Plus more to be announced. Check back soon for the full line up and set times. See more music at Mona.

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    The Gesualdo Six

    Six men in casual contemporary clothing stand in a line, smiling for a group portrait in an outdoor urban space. The background features brick arches and a modern curved roofline under bright, even daylight.

    Here from the hallowed halls of British cathedrals, one of the UK’s finest vocal ensembles goes medieval to modern inside Elektra, Anselm Kiefer’s colossal concrete amphitheatre at Mona.


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Mona is seen from the waterfront
Mona is seen from the waterfront