Parts of regional Victoria are being given a rare opportunity to host an exhibition that would usually only be seen in a capital city.

'Kylie On Stage' is on show at the Mildura Arts Centre but is also bound for Ararat and Geelong.

It celebrates the pivotal moments from Kylie Minogue's highly successful concert tours.

Mildura's Carolyn Dufty said it was exciting for the exhibition to visit regional Victoria.

"When I first heard the Kylie exhibition was coming to Mildura I got ridiculously excited, I was like quick we have to go, we have to try and get to the opening night," she said.

"Kylie's an icon. We are similar ages so I've kind of grown up with her, I was a big Neighbours fan.

Mildura's Carolyn Dufty is a Kylie Minogue fan and has been to the Kylie On Stage exhibition at the Mildura Arts Centre.

Back in 1990, Ms Dufty met the pop princess at the ARIA Awards when she won an outstanding performance award.

"I was lucky enough to be one of the girls that brought the awards onto the stage at the ARIAs, so I got to have contact with Kylie, that was pretty exciting."

"It was back in the days when she was with Michael Hutchence."

"We took them backstage so they could do their interview with the press and Kylie didn't want to do that, she just wanted to get back to Michael", she said.

Exhibition will appeal to everyone

Ms Dufty said you don't need to be a Kylie Minogue fan to enjoy the free exhibition.

"It was amazing to see her Showgirl costumes up close because I went to that concert and you don't realise the work that goes into it all," she said.

Exhibition curator Margot Anderson said all the pieces in the exhibition of were donated to Arts Centre Melbourne by Kylie Minogue over several years.

Ms Anderson said Kylie had been generous and had donated about 800 pieces.

''It's an extraordinary collection and this is just the tip of the iceberg."

Costumes on display span four decades

The costumes featured in the exhibition are taken from concerts from 1989 through to 2015.

Ms Anderson admits Kylie's famous gold hotpants are still in safe keeping at the Arts Centre Melbourne, but there are many other stunning outfits on display.

"The Showgirl costumes are a real knockout, they're from her more recent tours and it's an image that a lot of Kylie fans associate with her," she said.

Ms Anderson said Kylie was known to make her own alterations to some of the outfits.

This Aphrodite costume is one of the pieces in the Kylie On Stage exhibition ( Supplied: Mildura Arts Centre (Robert Klarich) )

"She has quite a good knowledge of dressmaking herself, so there's quite a lot of Kylie in those costumes as well as big names like John Galliano, Dolce and Gabbana, also Australian designers like Peter Morrissey in the early days of her career, so it's a good spread."

Almost 200,000 people visited the exhibition in Melbourne.

"We've tried to create the feeling you get when you go to a Kylie concert, with a lot of joy, a lot of high energy, lots of projections and footage of Kylie so you get a nice sense of a Kylie concert when you are in there."

Mildura welcomes opportunity to host exhibition

Mildura Rural City Councillor Jason Modica opened the exhibition and is expecting it to be very popular.

Dancers from the Mildura Ballet Guild perform a Kylie Minogue inspired piece for the opening of the Kylie on Stage exhibition in Mildura ( Supplied Mildura Arts Centre (Robert Klarich) )

"She's been such a part of our pop culture for so long and to be able to access all the amazing costumes she's had over the years will be fantastic for neighbouring communities like Broken Hill, Renmark and Balranald too," he said.

The exhibition runs in Mildura until October 29, before opening in Geelong in December and Ararat in July 2018.

"I think it's good that places like Arts Centre Melbourne look to Mildura to extend their tours, so they can give regional centres the chance to tap into what's happening in the city and we can develop deeper relationships with those arts entities," Cr Modica said.