Brough House, the hub of Hunter history, has released its schedule of exhibtions for 2017 and everything from warfare to fashion is on the cards.
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This year the Maitland Regional Museum is partnering with the Clothing Museum and Friends of Grossmann House to turn the historic home on Church Street into a centre for culture.
The year kicked off with Future’s Fashion, which exhibits the major textile works of local students. It reveals the next generation of textile designers until March 19.
If the walls of Brough House could talk their stories would speak straight to the heart of Maitland. And from April 8 to 23 Brough Voices will do just that when it shares the stories of the people who have lived and worked in the property from 1870 until the present day.
Exquisite watercolours of Isolbel Bowden, OAM, a pioneering conversationist from the Blue Mountains, will be on display on Fridays and Saturdays from May 6 until July 2.
The schedule will wrap up with one of the most important chapters of the city’s history – the story of the 34th Battalion, Maitland’s Own.
The 34th recruited men from around the district and shipped them to the shores of Europe to fight in the bloodiest battles of the First World War. Among them the devastating and infamous battle of Passchendaele in 1917 that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.
All exhibtions are open Saturday and Sundays from 10am until 3pm (unless otherwise noted). Tours and lunches can be arranged.
Contact janece.mcdonald@newcastle.edu.au for more information.