Department of Education - Archives Office of Tasmania

Archives Office of Tasmania

The Archives Office is set up under the Archives Act to enable the State Archivist to provide:

  • a formal and transparent framework for recordkeeping across State and local government organisations and regulate the retention and disposal of their records
  • facilities for the preservation of the State’s archives, including records of non-government organisations and individuals
  • facilities and services to enable public access to the State’s archives

Our site provides information about these policy and regulatory structures and settings, facilities, and services and also includes:

  • the Tasmanian Archives Online database, which contains descriptive information about the State’s archives
  • name indexes, which index the contents of specific archival records relating to people
  • an index to our photographic holdings, which includes copies of the images
  • a database providing descriptive information about our film and video holdings

Tasmania's convict records are part of the Memory of the World