MR-1 MONA Ferry, Hobart, Tasmania, AustraliaMR-1 MONA Ferry, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Taking the local Metro bus is not very enthusiastically promoted as one of the ways to get to the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Hobart. Most visitors will take the MR-1 Fast Ferry, a brutal machine in military decal that sends waves rippling across the Derwent River in its wake.
The garish pink-and-black Mona Roma express bus is another popular choice; it also leaves from the wharves. You can hire a bicycle, take a chauffeured Audi, or book a seaplane.
But I have a Metro Greencard with a couple dollars left on it, so I am taking the No. 37 bus. I immediately notice a poster inside the vehicle that probably gives a good indication of why it’s not on the brochures. “GET ON THE BUS WITHOUT A BUST-UP,” it encourages.
The 37 passes through some of the Hobart suburbs with a reputation. Going through Moonah and Glenorchy, it stops in Berriedale — close to the front entrance of MONA — before continuing on to Chigwell and Claremont before reversing its route and heading back to the city. Hobartians associate all of these toponyms with the working class.
Or, to use the vernacular, with bogans. This includes Berriedale, MONA’s address. But most visitors to MONA aren’t likely to see that — especially not those who take the ferry, bypassing any suggestion of this end of Hobart’s working-class culture.
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