This MONA needs more than one visit (more than two really) and at least one approach by water.
The ferry heads up Derwent River under the Tasman Bridge, a vast concrete span now well etched
into most Australians' psyche by the memory of the bulk ore carrier which crashed into two piers and sank within minutes drowning seven crew and five people in the four cars which drove into the void. It was Nearly Six Cars.
The ship lies down there still, cargo intact, covered in concrete.
It takes about half an hour up the river, past the belching zinc refinement plant to which the fatal ore was heading, up in the suburbs,
before MONA appears on the site of an old vineyard - a classified '50s house onto and around and under which the museum has been built. Cantilevered accommodation pavillions stare out across the river.
