Now the community's experiences - both positive and negative - have been added to the history books thanks to an innovative project from the Rotary Club of Tamar Sunrise.

Launceston Community Reflections has brought the challenges of 2020 to the screen, with a short film documenting insights from residents young and old, what they faced last year and what they learnt from it.

The film, along with an archive of the community's written, pictorial and photographic memories gathered by the club in December, have now been presented to the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery.

Club president and project coordinator Eve Gibbon said by allowing people to reflect on their experiences, it helped bring together all of the great, and not so great, learnings.

"It was a chance to reflect on everything," she said.

"Some of them hadn't stopped to think, what actually happened in 2020, and what am I going to learn moving forward.

"There was some positive reflections from it as well, not just those we know were challenging."

Aside from COVID-19, Ms Gibbon said many of the events experienced by the community in 2020 had not occurred in the past 100 years - including the snowfall that blanketed the city in August.

With memories and insights collected from hundreds of participants, she said the museum was the perfect place to store the reflections as a historical record for future generations.

"We have grabbed every piece of information we've received - written form, children's pictures and photographic memories," she said.

"It will allow for future generations to reflect on this time. And if the museum wants to do something special in this space, they have some written messages of how people felt, and not just the objects people usually see."

QVMAG general manager of creative arts and cultural services Tracy Puklowski said the museum was proud to welcome the collections as a snapshot of 2020.

"One of the most important things that museums do is capture evidence for future generations and there's a huge research role that museums play as well," she said.

"So there are multiple ways that this information can be used.

"This I think is going to be one of the most memorable periods of our history into the future.

"I expect that the future history books will absolutely spend a lot of time talking about 2020 and its impact locally, nationally and around the world."

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