Browse Items (337 total)

1. Ella and Percy Grainger, Jacket, c.1934. Hand sewn from manufactured towels 04.5367
Ella and Percy Grainger, Shorts, c. 1934. Hand sewn from manufactured towels and bathmats. 04.5380

Percy Grainger, Leggings created from plain linen squares of…

1. Eiraku Wazen, Japan, Nine tea cups, late 19th century-early 20th century. Purchased by Rose Grainger on 4 November 1920 from Wahman & Co., New York. 01.0184
2. Unknown maker, South Africa, Seed pod. Seed pod with repeated design of fine copper…

Printed card

The towel clothes in the Grainger Museum are one of the highlights of the Costume Collection. Numbering 26 individual pieces or outfit, the towel clothes represent the Graingers’ innovative ideas and creativity in dress. Percy Grainger wrote about…

English-born George W.L. Marshall-Hall (1862–1915) was a composer, musician and conductor. He established the Conservatorium of Music at the University of Melbourne in 1895, and became the first Ormond Professor of Music. In 1892 Marshall-Hall…

Card, paper, ink.

Percy Grainger stated that the Grainger Museum was intended to ‘preserve and display exhibits collected by me during the last 40 years’ including material about his personal and professional life, as well as the ‘many different aspects’ of other…

Ink on card. Inscribed and addressed to Mr and Mrs Percy Grainger

The design and construction of the Grainger Museum occurred in two stages: the central foyer and front galleries in 1935, and the adjoining radial and semicircular galleries in 1938. Throughout the entire process Grainger worked closely with…

Pair of cream towelling breeches and matching jacket with red stripe trim and fringed hem, with matching leggings. Hand sewn using manufactured towels. Worn by Percy Grainger between 1910-1914 while teaching and composing.