Hey Tony
The VMVC had a club trip to the opening of that museum in 1978 . Two army MP's jumped in the museum's WW2 Jeep and drove it out along the Hume highway to meet us . The Jeep I was co-driving ran out of petrol a few miles out . A Stude came along and offered us some petrol, it was D Mottram of course, tail end charlie in the snail pace Stude . Anyway, then a army ACCO stopped and the driver tried to get some petrol out of the ACCO tank, he used a empty Coke can on a wire and he tried to fill the coke can with petrol , letting it down the ACCO filler neck
. The club president , then drove out to rescue us ..gee what a comedy .
The rules were more relaxed then, they let us crawl all over the exhibits in the museum , inside tanks and I remember playing with the Jap Juki machine gun
There was a breakin and they had a lot of exhibit weapons stolen at some time , cannot recall exActly the date . Mike