Members / Special Event

Behind the Seams: Inside AGSA’s Dress Collection

Fri 7 Aug 2026

10.30am-1.30pm
Free
Radford Auditorium

$160 Members, $180 Non-Member Guests

All ages
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Step behind the seams and discover the stories woven into AGSA’s historic dress collection.

Join Ingrid Goetz, Vernon-Roberts Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts & Design, and Mary-Anne Gooden, Principal Textiles Conservator at ArtLab Australia, for a closer look at the garments, makers and wearers who shaped fashion history.

Discover how curators and conservators work together to research, preserve and present historic dress, and enjoy the rare opportunity to see inside these remarkable garments before they go on display in Dressed Up: Fashion and Photography, 1850s–1920s.

Continue the conversation after the event over a relaxed lunch at AGSA_eat.