UQ Tourism Award

The University of Queensland's historic Customs House has won a tourism award.

Customs House won the Heritage and Cultural Tourism Category of the Brisbane Tourism Awards for the second year running.

The University of Queensland will now enter the Queensland Tourism Awards to be judged in late July.

The stately Customs House was built on the banks of the Brisbane River in 1889, and was used to regulate shipping for nearly a century.

The University of Queensland took over the lease of Customs House in 1991 and returned the heritage listed building to its former glory with a $7.5 million dollar restoration.

It is now used as cultural, educational and heritage facility, with an art gallery, brasserie and function centre.

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