To be awed and appalled at MONA in Hobart

The world’s most “far-out” museum, as it has often been called, can be reached by taking a ferry ride up the peaceful Derwent River in the northern suburbs of Hobart. And in the subterranean galleries of Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art, you’ll find some of the most confronting creations in Australia. Passion, death, and decay are explored in unflinching detail in this controversial museum in the northern suburbs of Tasmania’s capital, Hobart.

Visitors are given an iPod touch that utilizes GPS to identify the piece of art they are in front of and then plays Walsh's commentary in real-time. In the three levels of steel and stone that follow, there are displays like X-rated sculptures, installations covered in maggots, and a variety of works of art and artifacts centered on death, sex, and evolution that are simultaneously disturbing, entertaining, and educational. Some of Walsh's own antiques, including gold coins removed from a Parthenon statue in Athens and a 1,500-year-old Egyptian sarcophagus, are interspersed among them.

Location: within the Moorilla winery on the Berriedale peninsula in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia