Wangaratta – Let’s Remember
Roll Up Roll Up ! Come and view treasures unearthed in our collection vaults at the Wangaratta Museum. A special weekend to view additional objects from our collection not usually on display. Morning refreshments included.
Wangaratta Museum has re-opened but on this special weekend your visit will explore a selection of stories, objects and photographs that offer a glimpse of the life in the past. This will include:
Merriwa Park – Recognising when it was a segregated swimming pool in the 1920s, and the place to swim up until the 1950’s. Merriwa Park Tennis Club display marks 100 years in 2025.
Callander’s Department Store – A family store of excellence, from the early 1900s.
View a selection of textiles and garments rarely on display at the Museum.
See a short film recognising the Wangaratta Historical Society’s Nationally Significant Marianne Gibson quilt (unfortunately the quilt is not on display). The 1890s quilt is one of the world’s best examples of crazy patchwork from this time.
View slides from the Vine Studios glass plate photograph collection, including the Tin Kan Band. See how Wangaratta grew to become a city in 1959, poster advertisements of stores in Wangaratta from early 1900.