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Double Lecture and Afternoon Tea | Luxury Tales: Fashion and Interiors with Distinguished Professor Peter McNeil

Join Professor Peter McNeil for a double lecture and afternoon tea to explore 19th and 20th century luxuries and fashions.

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The Johnston Collection

Curating Collections Series: Curating with Prints with Lisa Sullivan and Katarina Paseta, Geelong Gallery

This series provides curatorial students, emerging curators and the public with the opportunity to learn about working with collections of…

Artist Talks

The Johnston Collection

'Ecstatic about seaweed': eighteenth-century women tourists' scientific collecting with Dr Emma Gleadhill

Join Dr Emma Gleadhill to discuss the specimen collecting and scientific endeavours of 18th century women.

Artist Talks

The Johnston Collection

Keeping Up Appearances: Curators and the Australian historic house museum interior with Suzanne Bravery

Join Suzanne Bravery for a talk which investigates the challenging role of the Curator in both creating and maintaining the…

Artist Talks

The Johnston Collection

The Lives of an 18th-Century Man’s Coat with Paola di Trocchio

Join Paola Di Trocchio for a lecture on a figured silk coat in the NGV's collection remade in 18th century…

Artist Talks

The Johnston Collection

Swagger or Solidity? English Grand Tourists in Venice and Rome with Sylvia Sagona

Join Sylvia Sagona for a lecture which explores the lure of Italian style and sensuality for 17th and 18th century…

Artist Talks

The Johnston Collection

Double Lecture and Afternoon Tea | Swagger: Gentlemen of Fashion 1700-1900: from Macaroni Man to Perfumed Poodle and Decadent Dandy with Distinguished Professor Peter McNeil

Join Professor Peter McNeill for a double lecture and afternoon tea exploring gentlemen of fashion from 1700-1900.

Woman with curly hair wearing black dress with white circles and surrounded by Aboriginal art. Nici Cumpston
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First Nations curator Nici Cumpston to lead US collection

She will be Kluge-Ruhe's first First Nations Director in its 26-year history.

‘Joy’, installation view at Immigration Museum. Photo: ArtsHub. A corridor with neon plastic mobiles hanging overhead that reflect light onto both sides of the walls. The space is lit in purple light with more shaped mirrors at the end of the corridor.
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13 cracker museum exhibitions in 2025

Shift your perspective on the world in 2025, and visit a museum. Here are 13 hot shows for the diary.

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Woollahra Municipal Council

The Italian Museum: Nonna’s House - Ariel Ruby

Ariel Ruby examines scenes from Southern Italian migrant homes, where simple gestures and placements are imbued with meaning and memory.

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