Gunnedah Rural Museum is getting a spruce-up.
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The museum received more than $90,000 through the Gunnedah Shire Council's drought community resilience grant program to install a new security fence, paint the building and replace the toilet facilities.
Members have also extended the footpath, which wraps around the front of the museum. This project is funded by the museum.
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President Owen Tydd said seating would be placed on the new section of footpath so it can become a "human parking area". It replaces the gravel and plastic that has been there for many years.
The museum is still closed to the public because the majority of members are older and at risk from COVID-19.
Member Kerry Bee will oversee the gardens, which will be re-established behind the new fence after it is installed.
The museum will open again when the toilet block has been stripped out and made anew by Gunnedah builder Joe Perkins. The women's toilet will be disabled-friendly.
Members have been taking advantage of the quiet period to do a bit of a clean-up in the many sheds, which are chock-full of agricultural and historical treasures.
Mr Tydd said local Olwen Jones had recently joined the museum group and had been tasked with tidying up and organising the sewing machine collection. Mrs Jones is in the Gunnedah Embroiderers' Guild and is an ex-sewing teacher.
A receivals shed has also been set-up so they can keep track of what's "new".
"A lot of stuff comes in ... and we haven't had time to sort it so we've set up a shed and got a bloke to keep it tidy and keep a book with the items in it," Mr Tydd said.
