Hobart - Battery Point

The Van Diemen's Land Memorial Folk Museum is in a house built in 1834, and finished in period style to show how early settlers lived.

The Anglesea Barracks, built in 1814, is the oldest military establishment in Australia still in use. Outside it are two 18th C cannons. A pillar commemorates the soldiers stationed here who died in the Maori War in New Zealand in 1840.

Particularly notable among the historic old buildings in the harbor quarter are Mure's Fish House (1849; 5 Knopwood Street), now a quality restaurant, and Lenna House (c 1880; 20 Runnymede Street), a handsome Italian-style mansion (now a hotel and restaurant called Alexander's).

Elegant 'colonial accommodation' (360) for visitors is available in Colville Cottage (1880; 32 Mona Street).

Also of interest are the little mid-19th C cottages round Arthur Circus (formerly the village square).

Parliament House (overlooking Parliament Square) was originally built by convict labor in 1835-40 as the Customs House and converted to its present function in 1856, when Tasmania became an independent state. The tiny Legislative Council Chamber has been preserved almost unaltered (entrance in Murray Street; public admitted to gallery when Parliament is in session).

Now a public park, St David's Park was Hobart's first cemetery. The founder of the town, David Collins, is buried here.

The neoclassical St George's Anglican Church (1836; tower 1847) was built by two of Tasmania's most prominent colonial architects, John Lee Archer and James Blackburn.

The Tasmanian Maritime Museum on Secheron Road occupies Secheron House, built in 1831 for George Frankland, surveyor-general of the colony. It commands a fine view of the bay. Inside is a good collection of nautical artifacts showing Tasmania's close links with the sea.

The Telecommunications and Post Office Museum occupies a government building dating from 1838. It has on display an exhibition on the history of postal services and a collection of old telephone apparatus.