Hobart City
Nº 76 · 42.9°S 147.3°E
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Hobart creative density is remarkable for a city its size. Salamanca sandstone warehouses house galleries, studios, and artisan producers. Battery Point, North Hobart, and the waterfront each contribute their own character. The proximity of farm gates, wilderness, and world-class galleries in one small city is something no mainland capital can match.
Best time to visit
Cool-temperate conditions mean layering matters year-round, with drier, longer days from December through March favouring outdoor walks and weekend market mornings. Winter suits the indoor mix of galleries, studios and heritage collections, when older stone interiors and brewery taprooms offer their own kind of warmth. Shoulder seasons balance both, with fewer crowds around the accommodation-heavy waterfront streets.
What sets it apart
The concentration of craft and small-batch producers relative to other categories argues for a place shaped by hands-on making rather than mass hospitality — craft listings alone outnumber every other category combined. Reuse of older buildings threads through nearly every vertical, from breweries in former warehouses to accommodation in convict-era cottages. Culture and collection listings, though fewer, spread unusually wide across towns, while outdoor and nature listings are almost absent — a striking gap for a city sitting at the foot of a mountain.
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Generated from 132 verified listings · Last updated 6 July 2026
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A selection of standout places across Hobart City
Hope and Anchor Tavern
In the heart of Hobart, where the Derwent's tidal moods have shaped the city's…
ShopsPlants of Tasmania Nursery & Gardens
Tucked into the bush at Ridgeway, a short drive from central Hobart, this…
MakersPlimsoll Gallery
Plimsoll Gallery stands as a vital cultural hub on Hunter Street in Hobart,…
Places to stayOld Bishop's Quarters
Five accommodations spread across the grounds of Bishopscourt, an 1890s Sandy…
NatureRoyal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens
Beside the Derwent in the Queens Domain, Hobart's botanic gardens have grown…
Wine & spiritsQuiet Mutiny
Quiet Mutiny is the personal project of Greer Carland, a Tasmanian winemaker…
Wine & spirits
Battery Point Distillery
Battery Point, TAS
A small stone building in Battery Point's lanes of 19th-century cottages holds the operation Jack…
Bevs
Hobart, TAS
On Elizabeth Street in Hobart's CBD, Bevs runs beer, cider, and house-distilled spirits out of a…
Captain Blighs
Hobart, TAS
One of Tasmania's oldest brewery buildings, open just one Friday a month. Steve and Adam run a 500L…
Cascade Brewery
South Hobart, TAS
Australia's oldest brewery, established in 1824 at the foot of kunanyi/Mount Wellington in Hobart.…
Deep South Brewing Co.
North Hobart, TAS
Coordinates 42°52'30.5"S mark Deep South's position at the bottom of the world, which explains the…
Double Head Brewing
North Hobart, TAS
A brewery and taproom at 220 Argyle Street, spread across two levels: a concrete-floored downstairs…
Glaetzer-Dixon Family Winemakers
Glebe, TAS
Nick Glaetzer relocated from the Barossa to Tasmania in 2005, drawn by cool-climate shiraz and…
Heartwood Malt Whisky
North Hobart, TAS
Tim Duckett has been accumulating whisky since 1999 — over 40,000 litres of it, stored south of…
Hobart Brewing Company
Hobart, TAS
Brendan and Scott started HBC in 2014 over a pint, which at least makes for an honest origin story.…
Just B Distillery
Mount Nelson, TAS
Natasha Riddoch's Mount Nelson distillery keeps its releases tight — 120 bottles of inaugural…
Lark Distilling Co Ltd
West Hobart, TAS
Australia's premier luxury single malt whisky distillery with over 33 years of distilling mastery,…
Mountain Culture Brewery - Hobart
Hobart, TAS
A dream-come-true taproom bringing Mountain Culture's craft beer favourites from Katoomba to…
Coffee
Cult Logic Coffee
Hobart, TAS
A micro-roastery in central Hobart working to a simple creed — practice and progress, coffee for…
Villino
Hobart, TAS
A beloved Hobart institution. European-influenced specialty cafe serving exceptional espresso…
Zimmah Coffee
Hobart, TAS
# Zimmah Coffee Located at 219b Murray Street in Hobart, this roastery operates weekdays, roasting…
Museums & galleries
Cascades Female Factory Historic Site
South Hobart, TAS
Between 1828 and 1856, more than half of the 25,000 women transported to Van Diemen's Land passed…
Maritime Museum of Tasmania
Hobart, TAS
Hobart's relationship with the sea is the subject here — and it's a serious one. The permanent…
Mawson's Huts Replica Museum
Hobart, TAS
This remarkable full-scale replica of the huts used by Sir Douglas Mawson's 1911-14 Australasian…
Narryna Heritage Museum
Battery Point, TAS
Captain Andrew Haig built this Greek Revival townhouse between 1835 and 1840, funded by profits…
Penitentiary Chapel Historic Site Hobart
Hobart, TAS
Penitentiary Chapel Historic Site Hobart is a heritage-listed heritage site in Hobart, TAS. The…
Plimsoll Gallery
Hobart, TAS
Plimsoll Gallery stands as a vital cultural hub on Hunter Street in Hobart, Tasmania, showcasing…
Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens
Queens Domain, TAS
On Queens Domain, Hobart's botanical garden holds a 200-year food garden still in active…
Runnymede House Hobart
New Town, TAS
Runnymede House Hobart is a heritage-listed heritage site in Hobart, TAS. The heritage site…
Salamanca Arts Centre Hobart
Hobart, TAS
Community-led since 1976, Salamanca Arts Centre occupies the Georgian sandstone warehouses of…
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Hobart, TAS
Australia's second-oldest museum sits at the intersection of art, natural science, and colonial…
University of Tasmania Art Collection and Galleries
Hobart, TAS
University of Tasmania Art Collection and Galleries is a long-established gallery in Hobart, TAS.…
Makers
Anna Kosarewska ART Private Art Studio
Hobart, TAS
Ukrainian-born, Hobart-based painter Anna Kosarewska holds a Master of Fine Arts and has maintained…
Art Mob - Aboriginal Fine Art
Hobart, TAS
Euan Hills has run Art Mob for over 23 years, sourcing work across more than a dozen distinct…
Art Viva
Hobart, TAS
Hobart maker Art Viva turns sustainable Tasmanian Oak into hand-painted knitting needles, crochet…
Bett Gallery
Hobart, TAS
Hobart's Bett Gallery runs a tight exhibition calendar of Australian contemporary art — currently…
Cessiah Alice Millinery
Hobart, TAS
Cessiah has run her Hobart studio since 2015, hand-building hats and headpieces one at a time —…
Claudia Jewellers - Hobart Tasmania
Sandy Bay, TAS
Founded in 2010 by Scott Loring and partners, this Sandy Bay studio makes engagement rings and…
Colville Gallery
Hobart, TAS
By-appointment only, which sets the tone. Colville Gallery on Collins Street focuses on…
Contemporary Art Tasmania
North Hobart, TAS
Six major exhibitions a year in a North Hobart gallery space, plus off-site projects around…
Criterion Jewellers
Hobart, TAS
A locally owned and operated jeweller in Hobart, working across engagement and wedding rings…
Despard Gallery
Hobart, TAS
Despard Gallery on Castray Esplanade runs a tight, year-round programme of solo and group…
Emily Eliza Arlotte
Battery Point, TAS
Jewellery artist Emily Eliza Arlotte works from Nipaluna/Hobart, making contemporary fine pieces by…
Emma Bugg, Artist and Jeweller
Hobart, TAS
Emma Bugg embeds NFC tags, QR codes, and AI chatbots into wearable metalwork — jewellery that…
Places to stay
Alabama Hotel
Hobart, TAS
A hotel on Liverpool Street since 1867, named after a visiting American warship. Re-established in…
Assemblage Boutique Art B&B
New Town, TAS
The 1891 New Town Post and Telegraph Office, four kilometres up New Town Road from the Hobart CBD,…
Battery Point Boutique Accommodation
Battery Point, TAS
Four self-contained apartments on Hampden Road, in the heart of Battery Point's historic village in…
Grande Vue Private Hotel
Battery Point, TAS
Charles and Florence Fox built this Queen Anne mansion at 8 Mona Street in 1906 and called it…
Hadley's Orient Hotel
Hobart, TAS
The longest continuing hotel licence in Tasmania, dating to 1834. Roald Amundsen stayed in rooms…
Maylands Lodge
New Town, TAS
A convict's son built it. A famous architect shaped it. A department store and then the Salvation…
Moss Hotel
Battery Point, TAS
Two Georgian sandstone ex-warehouses on Salamanca Place, built by convict labour in 1835 and 1841,…
Old Bishop's Quarters
Hobart, TAS
Five accommodations spread across the grounds of Bishopscourt, an 1890s Sandy Bay heritage estate.…
Old Woolstore Apartment
Hobart, TAS
The saw-tooth roofline was built to flood the top-floor wool treatment rooms with natural light.…
Prince of Wales Hotel
Battery Point, TAS
Drinking on this corner of Battery Point since 1843. The recent redevelopment added twelve rooms…
Raffah House
Hobart, TAS
A restored 1840s sandstone house on Oatlands' main street, in one of the most intact Georgian…
Roxburgh House
Hobart, TAS
The 1880 Italianate building was originally Scotch College, then Queens College, then amalgamated…
Nature
kunanyi / Mount Wellington Summit
Wellington Park, TAS
The mountain that looms over Hobart, kunanyi rises to 1,271 metres barely twenty minutes from the…
Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens
Hobart, TAS
Beside the Derwent in the Queens Domain, Hobart's botanic gardens have grown since 1818 into…
Strickland Falls
South Hobart, TAS
A small yet picturesque waterfall nestled in the foothills of Mt Wellington, just off Strickland…
Shops
Aeroplane Records
Tasmania, TAS
Lin Stanton started this stall at Salamanca Market in 1982. He ran it until his death in 2020, when…
Chandlers Nursery
Sandy Bay, TAS
Established in 1888, this Sandy Bay institution ranks among Australia's oldest nurseries, offering…
Cool Wine
Hobart, TAS
Tucked into the Midcity Arcade off Criterion Street, this is a shop for people who like to poke…
Drink Co
Hobart, TAS
Tucked inside the Galleria Arcade off Salamanca Place, this boutique bottle shop trades almost…
Fullers Bookshop
Hobart, TAS
Over 100 years on Collins Street, Fullers is the kind of bookshop that still believes in the…
Hop Vine & Still
Hobart, TAS
Murray Street runs through the middle of Hobart's CBD, and among its bars and diners sits a narrow…
LUC. Design
Hobart, TAS
A Hobart design store on Macquarie Street, run by Lucy Given, who grew up in Tasmania, spent a…
New Town Station Nursery
New Town, TAS
A generous outdoor plant selection sits alongside maples, rhododendrons and roses, with garden…
Plants of Tasmania Nursery & Gardens
Ridgeway, TAS
Tucked into the bush at Ridgeway, a short drive from central Hobart, this nursery has built its…
Salamanca Arts Centre Shop
Battery Point, TAS
The shop inside Salamanca Arts Centre's 1976-founded sandstone precinct sells Tasmanian silver…
Smitten Merino
Sandy Bay, TAS
Nicola and Carl Mason moved from WA to Hobart, got cold, looked at the sheep, and decided to start…
State Bookstore
North Hobart, TAS
Attached to the State Cinema on Elizabeth Street, this small bookshop leans hard into film, art,…
Vintage
Antiques To Retro
Hobart, TAS
Robin, Jan, and Suzie Cooper run this Bathurst Street shop through a tight four-day week — closed…
Archive Antiques & Books
New Town, TAS
Carl has been trading antiques for over 35 years, and his New Town Road shop — occupying a former…
Bent Books
Hobart, TAS
A secondhand bookshop on Boundary Street in West End, inner-city Brisbane, and part of that…
Salamanca Market
Salamanca Place, TAS
Every Saturday, 8.30am to 3pm, rain or otherwise, 300-plus stallholders stretch the full length of…
Salvos Stores Hobart
Hobart, TAS
Salvos Stores Hobart is an op shop (charity thrift store) in Hobart, Tasmania, offering secondhand…
The Tip Shop Hobart
South Hobart, TAS
Worker-owned since 1993, this not-for-profit cooperative at McRobies Gully runs on consensus…
Food & dining
Bar Wa Izakaya
Hobart, TAS
Where the best of Hobart and Tokyo meet is the stated ambition of this Elizabeth Street bar, and…
Daci & Daci Bakers
Hobart, TAS
Classic patisserie method meets more modern technique across three shopfronts: 11 Murray Street in…
Erda
Hobart, TAS
Min and Mick run this small husband-and-wife cafe on the western fringe of Hobart's CBD, keeping…
Hope and Anchor Tavern
Hobart, TAS
In the heart of Hobart, where the Derwent's tidal moods have shaped the city's rhythm for two…
Institut Polaire
Hobart, TAS
A cold-climate wine bar and brasserie leaning into Hobart's standing as the gateway to Antarctica,…
Jackman & McRoss
Battery Point, TAS
Ovens on early at 57 Hampden Road, Battery Point — this long-running Hobart bakery turns out bread,…
Kalbi
North Hobart, TAS
North Hobart's Elizabeth Street runs on small, owner-run kitchens, and this warm family room adds a…
Kwan Ho
Hobart, TAS
Perched within the riverside Wrest Point complex on Sandy Bay Road, this dining room brings a…
Lēoht
Battery Point, TAS
A café and small restaurant in a Georgian cottage on Hampden Road, in the heritage streets of…
Lilly & Rose Sweet Shoppe
Hobart, TAS
A handmade sweet shop in the heart of Hobart, making its confectionery on-site in the old Tasmanian…
Little Missy Patisserie
North Hobart, TAS
Provençal-style pastries, baked fresh daily from seasonal Tasmanian produce, with reduced-sugar…
Lucinda
Hobart, TAS
A French cave-inspired sibling of Dier Makr in central Hobart, given over to a deep natural-wine…
Tours & walks
Based in Hobart City
Blue Lagoon SUP & Surf
On Hobart's eastern shore, where Park Beach's headland cuts the westerlies and the waves…
Departs HobartPennicott Wilderness Journeys
Founded by Robert Pennicott in 1999 and still Tasmanian-owned, this operator reveals the…
Departs South HobartTasmanian Mountain Bike Adventures
A small Hobart outfit running guided mountain-bike rides, skills coaching and shuttles to…
Departs HobartUnder Down Under
A locally owned Tasmanian tour operator running small-group multi-day trips of five to…
Departs HobartWater by Nature Tasmania
Brett founded Water by Nature Tasmania in 2003, having guided the Franklin River since…
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