With a racing pulse you know; you have found the one. It is the dress, and it will make you happy. Wedding dresses on display have been adored, worn and then stored through the decades by Whitehorse Historical Society.
Set against a backdrop of local landscapes from Whitehorse Art Collection, the wedding dresses are anchored to a time and place. The exhibition includes the 1910 wedding dress of Mary Schwerkolt, a woman who lived through two World Wars and experienced the confiscation by the government of her family home in Mitcham. Despite the trials and hardships on our life journeys, these dresses and their settings hold the power to evoke universal happy moments.
Image: Doris & Cecil Evans on their wedding day, Mitcham, 1938. Image courtesy Whitehorse Historical Society.
Whitehorse Artspace
Box Hill Town Hall
1022 Whitehorse Road
Box Hill VIC 3128
T: 03 9262 6250
E: artspace@whitehorse.vic.gov.a
W: whitehorseartspace.com.au
Opening Hours
Tuesday - Friday: 10am - 4pm
Saturday: 12pm - 4pm
Group bookings are available at other times by appointment only.
Entry is free.
The Public Galleries Association of Victoria (PGAV) acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners of the lands where our office is located, and all Traditional Owners of country throughout Victoria and Australia. We recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples enduring traditions and continuing creative cultures. We pay our respect to Elders past, present and emerging.
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