visitor info guide to brisbane

Few who pass the glass doors of MacArthur Chambers Hotel would know that it was from this building that General Douglas MacArthur directed the Allies in holding back the Japanese invasion.

This impressive Brisbane City Council owned museum offers an insight into the social history and visual arts of Brisbane.

There’s nothing dusty or musty about this slick little timber building on the edge of the Old Petrie Town car park.

You don’t have to be a ship enthusiast to enjoy this museum, which is well laid-out and staffed by ex-naval and maritime workers

Visitors to this museum will be happily surprised to find a modern well laid out display of the Redcliffe peninsula's 200+ years of European history

Behind the plain brick façade of Redlands Coast Museum lies a wonderland of memorabilia from the past

Resembling a mini historical village, the Samford Museum holds one of the most extraordinary collections of heirlooms, memorabilia and building styles of late 19th and early 20th century Queensland life to be found

Whether you have the slightest interest in things that run on tracks or not, this national treasure of a museum is must-visit.

Facing off with the State Library of Queensland across the river, the council’s premier library and keeper of some 110000 books occupies several funky coloured stories of the mod BCC headquarters.

A selection of local libraries worth browsing across Brisbane.

This landmark building on the riverfront between the art galleries is home to the main archival collections of Queensland’s history

The first cinema to operate on this site, the Avro, opened as a single open air cinema in 1912 and closed after the end of World War I

The monolithic building that was the engine room for Brisbane’s tram networks is the engine room for Brisbane’s fringe arts scene

Since the old Dendy closed at the historical Elycium Theatre in the city, this spankingly modern cinema wears the mantle of the only Dendy in town

One of a few historical Brisbane movie theatres still in operation, the Hawthorne Cinemas started life as The Roxy in 1922

The brilliant indie theatre company La Boite has been a stalwart of the Brisbane dramatic scene since its beginnings as the Brisbane Repertory Theatre in 1925.