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Meroogal

Treasured Textiles workshop images
25 March, 10am
Workshop

Treasured textiles workshop

Join Melinda Young for an artist talk at Meroogal and a hands-on textiles and jewellery workshop

Benchtop and cupboards below curtained windows in older style kitchen.
Onsite

Meroogal student tours

Tours are available at Meroogal for students in Stages 4, 5 & 6, exploring aspects of the collection relating to food technologies, textiles technologies and Industrial technologies – timber

Exterior of Meroogal with Jacaranda trees in bloom
Museum

Meroogal

Make yourself at home

Meroogal

Exterior of Meroogal with Jacaranda trees in bloom
On now
Featured exhibition

Meroogal Women’s Art Prize

The biennial Meroogal Women’s Art Prize, now in its 19th year

The Reverend Donald McKay Barnet in the front garden of the Presbyterian Manse, Wollongong, photograph taken by Robert Barnet, 1916
WW1

Reverend Donald McKay Barnet

1869–1940

Water pump at the back of the house, Meroogal
Onsite

Then and now: playing with the past

Students investigate how home life has been changed by the domestic and leisure technologies introduced since the late 19th century as they explore Meroogal, built in 1886

Girls from the Wollongong Ladies Life Saving Club rising after land drill, photo by Robert Barnet, January 1914
WW1

Driver Robert James Macgregor Barnet

1895–1916

Portrait photograph of Victor Brabazon Cox, 1914-1918
WW1

Victor Brabazon Cox

1874–1938

Photograph of Captain Cecil Stanley Moleworth, January 1917 / photographer unknown
WW1

Dr Cecil Stanley Molesworth

1888–1943