Ghost Zoo--Hobart Zoo in Beaumaris Park

New front gate at Hobart Zoo in Beaumaris Park and details. You have to wonder if it was the creators intention to depict the animals is a depressed, mournful state given the conditions of the old zoo, or if his "creativity" just made them turn out that way? Interesting concept in maintaining a defunct facility, as opposed to letting it fade away into nothing.








Hobart Zoo is infamous as the place where the last Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus) died in captivity on September 7, 1936. The park itself closed down in 1937 due to lack of funding.