Museums can be dusty, uninteresting places, particularly if the
people running them know little about the exhibits and the presentation is poor.
But that’s not the case with a vintage radio museum I recently visited in
Kurrajong, NSW. It was run by an enthusiast named Ian O’Toole and is one of the
best I’ve seen.
How it started
The start of this museum goes back many years. Ian’s father
owned a newsagency in Newcastle in the 1950s and 60s and Ian had the job of
helping his father with the magazine returns. This is a boring job which
involves returning either the front covers or the headings of magazines and
new-spapers for credit on the unsold items.
This section of the museum displays domestic radios from 1927 onwards. Pre-1927 radios are displayed separately.
