Damien Brown Mercury

A MASSIVELY reshaped Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery had the potential to be a world leader, one of the designers of its $150 million makeover predicted yesterday.
Speaking at the unveiling of the plan at the museum in Hobart yesterday, Graeme Dix said it would be like no other facility of its kind in the world. Mr Dix, a director of the Sydney-based architectural firm Johnson Pilton Walker, said nowhere else in Australia were people able to connect with collections and the surroundings like they could at TMAG. He said a piece of colonial art could be matched with the colonial building, and Aboriginal artefacts could be associated with historic digs around the site. Read more here