sentences:  The museum was noted as first being an established institution in the 1848 minutes of the Royal Society of Tasmania, though Wilmot had done most of the work in 1843 and had attempted to set up a museum in the cottage of the Secretary of the Governor, in what is now the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens.In 1838 the Mechanics' Institution received an agreement from the government for a room to be constructed in the Customs House for use as a museum.Customs House was later requisitioned by the Legislative Council of Tasmania and became Parliament House, Hobart.