The North West Museum and Art Gallery (NWMAG) is a new cultural facility that will bring together the existing Burnie Regional Art Gallery and Burnie Regional Museum into one facility. The project includes gallery, exhibition and back-of-house spaces over four levels, along with the refurbishment of the town’s civic plaza. The design was inspired by the rugged, sculpted coastline of Tasmania’s north-west region. NWMAG will be a portal to the region’s extraordinary natural environment, its deep history and heritage, inviting the arts into the city and region, and the city and region into the arts. The ground plane is organised around an urban room that is as much a part of the landscape and city as it is a foyer and entry. Walking in and around the building structures a series of encounters with art, city and the broader landscape through ‘keyholes’, where space, place, art, cultural history and landscape come together in a precisely choreographed way.