Discover Tasmania

Stay Longer and Discover Southern Tasmania

ANZMIC 2027 provides the perfect reason to spend a few extra days exploring Hobart and Southern Tasmania—a region where dramatic landscapes, remarkable food and wine, challenging art and powerful stories sit side by side.

Begin in Hobart, a compact waterfront city framed by the River Derwent and kunanyi/Mount Wellington. Explore the historic sandstone warehouses of Salamanca, discover Tasmania’s renowned produce in its restaurants and markets, or travel by ferry to Mona, the Museum of Old and New Art, for an experience designed to surprise, provoke and challenge.

Just beyond the city, Southern Tasmania’s cool-climate vineyards wind through the Coal River, Derwent and Huon valleys. Meet local winemakers at intimate cellar doors, sample exceptional pinot noir and sparkling wine, and enjoy long lunches showcasing produce grown and made nearby.

For a deeper encounter with Tasmania’s history, visit the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Port Arthur Historic Site or Hobart’s Cascades Female Factory. These places preserve complex stories of forced migration, punishment, institutional power, separation and survival. For those attending ANZMIC, they may also prompt reflection on themes closely connected to moral injury—the human consequences of systems, authority, injustice and actions that conflict with deeply held values.

Venture further to the wild coastline of the Tasman Peninsula, explore Bruny Island, follow the Southern Wine Trail or simply enjoy Hobart in winter, with its crisp days, fireside dining and the possibility of snow on kunanyi.

Allow yourself time before or after the conference to experience the history, creativity, flavours and extraordinary natural beauty of Southern Tasmania.

Come for ANZMIC. Stay to explore

From wildlife encounters to meeting the makers, growers, distillers and chefs – every moment feels like an adventure. Ready to explore the unexpected?

Visit some of Tasmania’s finest rural estates, including World Heritage-listed convict sites. Wander a rose garden of over 5,000 blooms. Poke about the archaeological site of a female convict prison.

Mona is a museum in Hobart, Tasmania.
We’ve got old art. New art. A library. Winery. Dark corners. Nice views. Music.
Come along, catch the ferry, drink wine, eat oysters. Talk crap about the art. You’ll love it.

Port Arthur has a naturally deep harbour which lended itself perfectly to the arrival of large ships back in the convict era. Port Arthur even operated its own Dockyard from 1834 where many large decked ships were built and launched.

You’ll quickly find that Tasmania’s vineyards are generally not found on flat land but follow the curve of a valley. Rocky outcrops and windy hilltops challenge the hardiest of vine roots and the most committed of grape growers.