Museum
Level 1 at the Hive
10am – 4pm daily
Image credit: Lyntje and Peter Fromberg strolling down the street, c. 1950s. Courtesy of the Fromberg family.
CURRENT EXHIBITION
A TOWN IS A TAPESTRY
19 October – August 2025
A Town is a Tapestry and every person’s story is a stitch. The Central Coast has 25 townships and a current population of around 22 000 people. For tens of thousands of years, the First Peoples have maintained long cultural connections with this Country. James Fenton is credited as the first European to settle in this area. He built a hut in 1844 in Forth and lived there until 1879. In that time, 1200 more settlers arrived, each with their own stories. Waves of migration brought people from all over the planet including from Britain and Ireland, China, Italy, and the Netherlands. Post-war eras were particularly rich times that brought new Tasmanians to the Central Coast.
This unique landscape of people’s stories is explored using objects and photographs from our collection in this exhibition with tales from Leith and Forth in the east, to Heybridge and West Pine in the west, to South Nietta and Loongana in the south, and to the Bass Strait to the north.
Stories will change in the exhibition throughout its run.
Featured Story
Image credit: Lyntje and Peter Fromberg strolling down the street, c. 1950s. Courtesy of the Fromberg family.
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From 1987, ArtEx was a premier local art competition, run by the Rotary Club of Ulverstone West and the North West Art Circle, with the Central Coast Council as the major sponsor. The competition’s final year was 2023. This exclusive retrospective showcases the prizewinning works that form the Central Coast Council ArtEx Collection, highlighting the wealth of talent in our community.
Democratic in spirit, the prize attracted artists at all levels of their practice from all over Tasmania and especially the North West. The prize provided a platform to celebrate their work and for audiences to experience the richness of local talent on display.
The Central Coast Council ArtEx Collection is a lasting legacy of the vision of the competition’s co-founders Suzie Charleston and Adrienne Krist, for art to be appreciated and enjoyed whilst also providing important opportunities for artists at all stages of their creative practice.
