Brisbane

Queensland Museum

A large museum featuring several exhibitions that generally focus on natural history and Queensland history.

9:30AM to 5PM · Free, except for some special exhibitions · Free entry · Wi-Fi · Wheelchair accessible

Gallery of Modern Art

Part of the Queensland Art Gallery and a short walk from the Main Gallery. Opened in 2006 the gallery regularly hosts exhibitions featuring internationally famous artists (such as Warhol and Picasso) as well as many local contemporary artists.

Mo-Su 10:00-17:00 · Free entry · Wheelchair accessible

Commissariat Store Museum

Occupying the oldest habitable building in Queensland, the museum highlights both the building and aspects of Brisbane and Queensland's convict, colonial and more recent history. Run by The Royal Historical Society of Queensland. Audio tour can be downloaded from website in advance.

Tue–Fri 10AM to 4PM · Adults $7, concession $5 · Heritage listed · Wheelchair accessible

Queensland Maritime Museum

Has a range of exhibitions and vessels. Step aboard HMAS Diamantina and experience life as a Navy sailor. Be sure to see Ella's Pink Lady, the yacht Queenslander Jessica Watson sailed solo unassisted during her record-breaking journey to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world.

Daily 9:30AM to 4:30PM · Adult $16, concession $14, child $7

Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying

Spotlights a historical collection of resources in exhibits relating to surveying techniques and maps.

Mo-Fr 09:30-16:00

Sciencentre

A hands-on, interactive science facility particularly popular with families and children.

Mo-Su 09:30-17:00 · Adult $15.50, concession $13.50, child $12.50 · Free entry · Wheelchair accessible

Queensland Art Gallery

Housed in two buildings in the cultural precinct.

10AM to 5PM · Free, except for some special exhibitions · Wi-Fi · Wheelchair accessible

UQ Anthropology Museum

First opened in 1948, this museum houses a display of ethnographic objects, including modern Indigenous Australian and Pacific Island artwork.

Mo-Fr 11:00-15:00 · Free entry · Wheelchair accessible

Museum of Brisbane

Hosts a permanent display on the history of Brisbane and rotating exhibits by local artists that touch on Brisbane's lifestyle and culture. Daily tours into the clocktower and observation deck, bookings essential.

Daily 10AM to 5PM, Fri till 7PM · Free · Free entry

MacArthur Museum

This museum occupies what was during the Second World War the Office of General Douglas MacArthur. Travel back in time to the early 1940s in this niche Brisbane museum.

Tue Thu Sun 10AM to 3PM · Adults $8, seniors $5, child $4

The University of Queensland

One of Australia's oldest and most prestigious institutions, situated on a bend of the Brisbane River. Its majestic sandstone buildings are surrounded by ornamental lakes, jacaranda-lined boulevards and some of the finest architecture. Visitor attractions include the Great Court, the UQ Art Museum at the James and Mary Emelia Mayne Centre, the Eleanor Schonell Bridge, and wildlife in the UQ lakes. It can be reached by CityCat, or bus route 66 from the CBD along Busway.

Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre

Named as the world's best convention centre, this purpose-built convention centre and event venue plays its host to an average of 1,300 yearly events and contains four exhibition halls.

South Bank and Cultural Precinct

South Bank is a relatively recent development across the Brisbane River from the heart of the city on the site of World Expo '88, and features an artificial beach surrounded by extensive parklands. Also in South Bank are the shops, cafés, restaurants and cinemas of the Grey Street precinct. A great place to hang out on a hot day and swim for free. Adjacent to South Bank, the Cultural Precinct includes the Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Queensland Museum and Sciencentre, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) and State Library of Queensland. Griffith University's South Bank Campus incorporating The Queensland Conservatorium and the Queensland College of Art are also located on Grey St.

HMAS Diamantina

HMAS Diamantina, named after the Diamantina River in Queensland, is a River-class frigate that served the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Constructed in the mid-1940s, Diamantina was active from 1945 until 1946, was placed in reserve, then was recommissioned as a survey ship from 1959 until 1980. Following her second decommissioning, the frigate was preserved at the Queensland Maritime Museum as a museum ship.

Built 1944

Newstead House

Newstead House is Brisbane's oldest surviving residence and is located on the Breakfast Creek bank of the Brisbane River, in the northern Brisbane suburb of Newstead, in Queensland, Australia. Built as a small cottage in the Colonial-Georgian style in 1846, the cottage was extended and today is painted and furnished in a late Victorian style. Newstead House is the oldest surviving home in Brisbane, but not the oldest surviving building, built in 1846, for Patrick Leslie and his wife Catherine (née McArthur).

Boggo Road Gaol

H.M. Prison Brisbane, commonly known as Boggo Road Gaol, was Queensland's main prison from the 1880s to the 1980s. By the time it closed, it had become notorious for poor conditions and rioting. Located on Annerley Road in Dutton Park, an inner southern suburb of Brisbane, it is the only surviving intact jail in Queensland that reflects penological principles of the 19th century.

RD Milns Antiquities Museum

The University of Queensland, Level 2, Building 9

Mo-Tu 09:30-14:00; We-Fr 09:30-16:30 · Free entry · Wheelchair accessible

Woolloongabba Art Gallery

613 Stanley Street, Woolloongabba

Tu-Fr 10:00-17:00; Sa 10:00-15:00 · Wi-Fi

Geology Museum

The UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND, Steele Building

Mo-Fr 09:00-16:00 · Free entry

Physics Museum

The University of Queensland, Parnell Building

Mo-Fr 09:45-16:00 · Free entry

Robyn Bauer Art Gallery

54 Latrobe Terrace, Paddington

Sa 09:30-16:00 · Free entry

ArtWorld Studio Gallery

28 Bodalla St

Th,Fr 10:00-14:00; Sa 10:00-16:00

QUT Art Museum

2 George Street

Free entry

Flowstate

The Arbour, Tribune Street

Lethbridge Gallery

136 Latrobe Ter

Metro Arts

97 Boundary St

Milani Gallery

270 Montague Rd

Philip Bacon Galleries

2 Arthur Street

Institute of Modern Art

Judith Wright Arts Centre, Ground Floor/420 Brunswick St

Tiny Door

45a Burnett Ln