The Australian Women’s Weekly Exhibition Bendigo. 90 Years of an Australian Icon.

Bendigo Art Gallery

42 View Street. Bendigo

This exhibition marks the 90th anniversary of The Australian Women's Weekly and looks back on the inspiring women who have been a part of the magazine's history. Re live the changing eras of fashion and style bought to life on the pages of The Weekly, and the creativity it inspired through cooking, dressmaking, interior design, and crafts. Follow the courageus wartime stories of mothers, partners, and sisters of our soldiers during  WW11, the Korean, and Vietnam wars, and see how history unfolded and times progressed in the lives of Australian women.

Price includes;

Return coach trip from Melbourne to Bendigo. Morning tea and lunch at Borchelli in View St. Entrance into all sight seeing venues.

We will depart from Melbourne at 8.30am from the Rosa pickup point at the corner of Spencer and Lonsdale St, and stop for a morning tea break at the delightful award winning Harcourt General Store Cafe. Coffee/tea and a light snack is included. Most of the delicious food has been made onsite with fresh local produce. The drive from Harcourt to Bendigo is 30 minutes and includes a 15 minute stop at Bendigo's beautiful Sacred Heart Cathedral. The Gothic style cathedral is Australia's third largest, and the internal and external architecute is an impressive sight.

Just a few minutes away and we will arrive at the historical Bendigo Art Gallery, located in the vibrant View Street precinct. This is our major destination! The Australian Women's Weekly 90 year exhibition and celebration. The exhibition honours the contributions from trailblazing women who have made The Weekly a magazine for women, by women, from the very beginning. The magazine has always offered a window into the global fashion stage, and the exhibition presents a selection of garments by leading Australian designers, and worn by notable and inspiring Australian women on the many covers of The Weekly. Flip through editions from the 50's and 60's to see women's views on current affairs, fashion, cooking, homemaking, motherhood, and romance, together with cake displays from the ingenious Australian Women's Weekly Birthday Cake Book, still going strong after 43 years.

Lunch will be in Borchelli located on cosmopolitan View St, directly opposite the art gallery. After lunch we'll take a leisurely stroll through the beautiful gardens in stunning Rosalind Park, rich in gold rush history, before we return to our coach and head back to Melbourne. We expect to be back in Melbourne at the corner of Spencer and Lonsdale St at 6.30pm.