Hobart's poorer suburbs are missing out on the 'MONA effect'
- Written by Kate Isabel Booth, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography and Planning, University of Tasmania
Most of MONA's interstate visitors go to the museum without stopping in the nearby suburbs. Mark Pegrum/Flickr
Popular opinion has it that MONA, Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art, is transforming Tasmania. That the state is no longer the poor and backward cousin, the economy is booming, and we are leaders in contemporary culture.
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