Fresh push to relocate Glenbawn dam's Hunter Valley Museum of Rural Life collection after 30 years

Ethan Hamilton
Updated October 8 2022 - 7:33pm, first published 7:00am
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
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.

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Ethan Hamilton

Ethan Hamilton

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Ethan Hamilton started as a digital/ print journalist with the Newcastle Herald in 2021 after interning with ACM's Voice of Real Australia/ Forgotten River podcast. He is from a small town in the Upper Hunter and has lived in Newcastle since beginning university in 2017. Twitter: @ethanjham

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