Museum Events
Please visit our Gift shop to register for the “All About the Costumes” Event on Saturday, June 8, 2024!
Please join the Marietta Gone With the Wind Museum for an event “All About the Costumes” on Saturday, June 8, 2024 from 10am – 3pm at the museum located at Brumby Hall and Gardens.
The “All About the Costumes” Event will feature a wonderful line up of speakers sure to delight the Windies! There will be music, a photo booth, a Grand Bazaar and the opportunity to join the group for a Windie Waltz! Then on Saturday evening, join your fellow Windies at an intimate showing of Gone With the Wind beginning at 6pm at the Alley Stage right in the heart of the Historic Marietta Square!
The Grand Bazaar will allow people to bring their own items to sell. If you plan to sell your personal items, then you must register to do so on our website for a cost of $10 per table. We will provide your table. The cost to attend the event is $25 and it includes all the speakers and activities. The box lunch costs $15. If you plan to attend the showing of the movie then you must register for a ticket on our website. The cost to attend the movie is $20. To purchase tickets for these activities, please visit our website.
Schedule of Speakers:
10:30am – 11:15am – Mary Jane Sinclair
• Mary Jane Sinclair will bring a jacket worn by Leslie Howard and a few of his personal items and discuss his impact on the film.
11:30am – 12:00pm – Joseph Green
• Joseph Green will unveil two new custom-made costumes for the museum and discuss their construction.
12:00pm – Boxed Lunches
12:30pm – 1:15pm – Megan Tatum Miller
• Megan Tatum Miller will lead a discussion on the dress design patterns of famous historical costumes created by her grandmother, Peggy Abbot Miller - Pegee of Williamsburg, Patterns from Historie, and lead the Windies in a waltz!
2:15pm – 3:00pm – George Terrell
• George Terrell will share with attendees his original Walter Plunkett sketches for Olivia De Havilland’s most famous Gone With the Wind costume and her hat from, The Heiress,
The Marietta Gone With the Wind Museum exhibits several original pieces as well as items that are extremely rare including one of the most iconic costume pieces from the movie, the mourning bonnet worn by Scarlett O’Hara, played by Vivien Leigh. Additionally, there are one-of-a-kind pieces including, the Shantytown dress, and Rhett Butler’s jacket, played by Clark Gable. The current collection also includes the original Dan Sayre Groesbeck painting which hung in Loews Lobby during the premier of Gone With the Wind on December 15, 1939. The museum will also be home to the six original Walter Plunkett costume sketches which include Scarlett’s iconic green BBQ dress.
About Brumby Hall
Brumby Hall, built in 1851, on what was then the campus of the Georgia Military Institute (GMI), reflects a Greek Revival style home. Named after the first superintendent of GMI, Colonel Arnoldus V. Brumby, Brumby Hall is the one surviving building from the campus. At the end of the Civil War, Brumby Hall remained a private residence changing ownership until 1925, when the home was sold to the Trezvant family who lived in the home until 1994 when it was purchased by the City of Marietta. The adjoining gardens are a special event venue.