Past Exhibitions

Temporary exhibitions held at the National Wool Museum

2026

  • Quietly Seething: Fate, Fury & Transmutation by Tal Fitzpatrick
  • On the Move
    Produced by Museums of History NSW in collaboration with illustrator James Gulliver Hancock
  • Interwoven: Fibre art and Fashion
    Produced by the National Wool Museum in partnership with the Australian Tapestry Workshop

2025

  • Made in Geelong: Godfrey Hirst
    Produced by the National Wool Museum in partnership with Godfrey Hirst
  • QUILTS, WOOL, USE: You were not completely in, but you were not exactly out either by D and K
    Produced by the National Wool Museum in partnership with D and K
  • We the Makers Sustainable Fashion Prize 2025
    Produced by the National Wool Museum
  • Cats & Dogs All at Sea
    Produced by Australian National Maritime Museum and featuring objects from the Geelong Navel and Maritime Collection
  • Wildlife Photographer of the Year 61
    Produced by the Natural History Museum, UK

2024

  • Ten Years of Dowel Jones
    Produced by the National Wool Museum in partnership with Dowel Jones
  • Anatomy Lessons by Michele Beevors
  • Cultural Bridges: Celebrating Four Decades of Pako Festa
    Produced by the National Wool Museum in partnership with Cultura
  • Wildlife Photographer of the Year 60
    Produced by the Natural History Museum, UK

2023

  • WaVE/ WeaVE by Slow Art Collective 
  • Art Quilt Australia 2023 including the Expressions Wool Prize
    Produced by the National Wool Museum in partnership with OzQuilt Network 
  • We the Makers Sustainable Fashion Prize 2023
    Produced by the National Wool Museum
  • Bluestone: 150 Years of the Dennys Lascelles Woolstore
    Produced by the National Wool Museum
  • Wildlife Photographer of the Year 59
    Produced by the Natural History Museum, UK

2022

  • Wadawurrung Dja: Awakening Country - The Art of Deanne Gilson
    Produced by the National Wool Museum
  • Necessity: wagga's and the art of making do
    Produced by the National Wool Museum
  • Micron: Light, Wool, Belong, Skunk Control
  • Wildlife Photographer of the Year 58
    Produced by the Natural History Museum, UK

2021

2020

  • Wildlife Photographer of the Year 55, Natural History Museum London
  • Now You See Us, Mary-Jane Walker
  • We the Makers: Designer Showcase, National Wool Museum Geelong Biennial

2019

  • Women in Wool, National Wool Museum
  • Wildlife Photographer of the Year 54, Natural History Museum London
  • The Year of Knots
  • Happy Birthday Play School: Celebrating 50 Years
  • Art Quilt Australia
  • Without Consent, National Archives of Australia

2018

  • Wildlife Photographer of the Year 53
  • Spidergoat and the Insect Electro
  • Scarf Festival
  • Marion Hall Best: Interiors
  • Masters: Art of the Precious Metal Object
  • Sand in the City

2017

  • Horrible Histories® - Pirates: The Exhibition
  • Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016
  • Wildlife of Gondwana
  • Scarf Festival - Galaxies: a textile journey to infinity and beyond
  • Iconic Industry
  • The Art of Wool
  • The Bald Archy Prize

2016

  • Wildlife Photographer of the Year
  • 2016 Scarf Festival: Myths and Legends
  • Built for the Bush
  • War At Sea - The Navy in WWI

2015

  • Women of Empire 1914-1918
  • You Are Here! Geelong Under Construction
  • The Art of Bradman
  • Craft Reclaimed
  • 2015 Scarf Festival: Coastlines
  • PomPom Sheep on Parade (We broke the Guinness World Record)
  • Art Quilt Australia
  • Visions of Chieri

2014

  • Waves and Water
  • The 25th Object
  • Future Wool
  • Seven Wonders Silent Film Festival
  • Scarf Festival 2014: Divinely Wicked and Devilishly Good
  • Vanished into Stitches
  • Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2014

2013

  • Faces of Diversity
  • Future Wool
  • Scarf Festival 2013: HOME
  • Rumour Has It

2012

  • Geelong: A Bird’s Eye View 1857–2011
  • Sports Alive
  • Our Water
  • Scarf Festival 2012: The Journey
  • Wish You Were Here - A private note for all to see...
  • Permian Monsters: Life Before the Dinosaurs
  • Expressions 2012: The Wool Quilt Prize




Page last updated: Tuesday, 28 July 2026

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