Until 12 Apr

Home Comforts

Name: Home Comforts
Start: 2025-10-15
End: 2026-04-12
Location: The Johnston Collection

This summer, explore 'Home Comforts' at The Johnston Collection, a house museum in leafy East Melbourne.

View exquisite fine and decorative arts in the intimate, domestic setting of an 1860s townhouse, and learn about how families lived in the 1700s and 1800s.

Experience an elegant dining room for entertaining; a nursery with dolls house and cradle; a breakfast room to enjoy luxuries such as tea, coffee, chocolate and spices; the commercial world of a gentlemen’s study; a welcoming drawing room for family entertainment; and the work of staff in the kitchen.

This exhibition also features over 50 rarely displayed, historical quilts on loan from a private collection.

All visitors enjoy tea or Market Lane coffee and a shortbread on arrival. Bookings essential.

Date	Times
Thu 26 Feb	10:00am - 4:00pm
Fri 27 Feb	10:00am - 4:00pm
Sat 28 Feb	10:00am - 4:00pm
Sun 1 Mar	10:00am - 4:00pm
Wed 4 Mar	10:00am - 4:00pm
Thu 5 Mar	10:00am - 4:00pm
Fri 6 Mar	10:00am - 4:00pm
Sat 7 Mar	10:00am - 4:00pm
Sun 8 Mar	10:00am - 4:00pm
Wed 11 Mar	10:00am - 4:00pm
Thu 12 Mar	10:00am - 4:00pm
Fri 13 Mar	10:00am - 4:00pm
Sat 14 Mar	10:00am - 4:00pm
Sun 15 Mar	10:00am - 4:00pm
Wed 18 Mar	10:00am - 4:00pm
Thu 19 Mar	10:00am - 4:00pm
Fri 20 Mar	10:00am - 4:00pm
Sat 21 Mar	10:00am - 4:00pm
Sun 22 Mar	10:00am - 4:00pm
Wed 25 Mar	10:00am - 4:00pm
Thu 26 Mar	10:00am - 4:00pm
Fri 27 Mar	10:00am - 4:00pm
Sat 28 Mar	10:00am - 4:00pm
Sun 29 Mar	10:00am - 4:00pm
Wed 1 Apr	10:00am - 4:00pm
Thu 2 Apr	10:00am - 4:00pm
Fri 3 Apr	10:00am - 4:00pm
Sat 4 Apr	10:00am - 4:00pm
Sun 5 Apr	10:00am - 4:00pm
Wed 8 Apr	10:00am - 4:00pm
Thu 9 Apr	10:00am - 4:00pm
Fri 10 Apr	10:00am - 4:00pm
Sat 11 Apr	10:00am - 4:00pm
Sun 12 Apr	10:00am - 4:00pm

Adult / general $30
Student / concession $28
Children $15

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