The world's only full-size replica of the research hut used by Douglas Mawson for his 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Veloobscura (Atlas Obscura User) - Hobart, Australia 
Mawson's Huts Replica Museum
SQUATTING AMONG THE HISTORICAL COLONIAL buildings on Hobart’s waterfront is a single-story pine hut guarded by two brass sled dogs. The Mawson’s Huts Replica Museum is, as its name implies, an exact reconstruction of the main research hut built in 1911 on Cape Denison by members of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, lead by the famed Australian geologist, explorer, and academic Douglas Mawson.
Every detail of the museum, from its cladding to the flooring, has been painstakingly recreated, based on hundreds of photographs and measurements obtained from conservation efforts conducted at the original huts. Even the Baltic Pine used to build the museum was sourced from the same Scandinavian region that provided Mawson with the lumber for his hut over a century ago.
The museum displays artifacts from the so-called “Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration,” an era of scientific and geological breakthroughs carried out on the world’s most isolated continent from the late 19th to the early 20th century. There are information panels on Mawson and his team, as well as on the 12 sled dogs that made their surveying expeditions possible.
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