'Sitting there rotting away': Fresh push to relocate Hunter museum collection after 30 years

The Hunter Valley museum of Rural Life opened in 1966 and closed twenty years later, picture shows park managers Leoni and Mal Walsh with farming equipment. Picture by Peter Lorimer

A RENEWED push to showcase more than 1500 artefacts, housed in a shuttered Hunter museum, aims to illuminate the region's early history, more than 30 years after the museum's closure.

The Hunter Valley Museum of Rural Life - opened in 1966 on the banks of Glenbawn dam - had a kiosk, Oak milk bar and barbecue area, and was a hive of activity throughout the '70s.