Some of the acquisitions for 2000-01 included:

• Walter Tjampitjinpa's 'Water Dreaming' 1972 (purchased with the assistance of the National Cultural Heritage Committee and the Art Foundation of Tasmania)

• Lloyd Rees' 'The City from Waverton, Sydney Harbour' 1919

• Peter Adams' Cathedral bench 1996, huon pine and dolerite

• Simon Butler's globe cast glass bowl.