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INSPIRED BY WOMEN | Exhibition
25 Sept 2024 – 23 Mar 2025
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Swagger: Gentlemen of Fashion | Exhibition
9 April – 28 Sept 2025

Special Events

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Cut and Pinned Workshop: Reclaiming Vintage Embroidery and Lace with Louise Saxton
Saturday 15 Feb 2025, 10:30 AM – 4:00 PM
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Twilight Tour | Inspired By Women
Thursday 20 Feb 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
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Fashionable Threads: Experiencing Historical Embroidery
Wednesday 26 Feb 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
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Featured Lectures

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Collecting Embroidery & Needlework: Starting a collection with Alison Cole
Wednesday 19 Feb 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Mary Ann Henty, Letter to Caroline Henty, 1876. State Library of Victoria. 681 30 (1)
Dress and domesticity in 19th-Century Victoria: The Henty letters with Dr Laura Jocic
Thursday 20 Feb 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
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Double Lecture and Morning Tea | Luxury Tales: Fashion and Interiors with Distinguished Professor Peter McNeil
Thursday 27 Feb 2025, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
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The Brookes Study Centre for Fine and Decorative Arts

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Collecting Embroidery & Needlework: Starting a collection with Alison Cole
Wednesday 19 Feb 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
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Curating Collections Series: Curating with Prints with Lisa Sullivan and Katarina Paseta, Geelong Gallery
Thursday 6 Mar 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
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'Ecstatic about seaweed': eighteenth-century women tourists' scientific collecting with Dr Emma Gleadhill
Saturday 15 Mar 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
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