Highlights

"But in one minute, in one turn, her feet glided, glided. The lights, the azaleas, the dresses, the pink faces, the velvet chairs, all became one beautiful flying wheel" [Her First Ball by Katherine Mansfield, 1921].
A selection of dresses from the Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato collection – we're off to the ball!

'The morning steals upon the night,
Melting the darkness.'
William Shakespeare

Medical items, historic and some more recent with a Waikato connection.