Robinvale - Rural Life Museum - Mallee

Robinvale - Rural Life Museum

The Museum is constructed with natural bush timbers setting the scene for the vintage machinery and displays found inside. The Rural Life Museum has a wonderful collection of memorabilia from the early days of settlement, display items date from the 1860s.

Display items include:

Restored (working) 1890s Hercules gas engine
Petters engine (our next item to be restored)
Mallee Roler, used to clear much of the area around Bannerton, Manangatang, Carwarp and Morkalla from 1920 to 1952.
Set of bellows and other blacksmith equipment
Horse-drawn grain crop farming equipment
Depression era hand-made tools and implements
Early grape dipping tanks and grape block implements
Tractors, including McCormick Deering (the first rubber-tyred tractor to be used in this area), 1923 Emerson Brantingham, Lanz Bulldog, Massey Harris, 1938 Allis Chalmers, 1955 B250 International, 1956 petrol/kero David Brown, International Farmall A and International Farmall Super A, 1952 David Brown Crop Master, 1951 Grey Ferguson TAE 20
90 hp Blackstone Engine used by the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission, to pump water at Wemen
50 hp Blackstone Engine used by Members of the Italian community in Euston to pump irrigation water
Original dried fruit weighing scales from Robinvale Producers Co-operative Co.
The punch time-clock from Robinvale Producers
Post WWI Laundry Mangles
100 year old red gum planks from the Riverboat Canally
Household items, dating from the early settlement days of this area...and lots more!

As well as the display of machinery, tools, household items etc., the Museum also boasts a wonderful display of photographs of all the original World War II Soldier Settlers who were granted dried fruit flocks in the Robinvale Solder Settlement Scheme of 1947.

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