The Muswellbrook Shire Council Aboriginal Reconciliation Committee first proposed a mural depicting the concept of black and white reconciliation in 1999. Over the following twelve months the Committee secured the services of well known local Aboriginal artist George Anderson to desing the work and began the task of seeking funding for the project. Initial assistance was forthcoming from the Upper Hunter Community Arts Development Officer and sponsorship was eventually sourced from a range of private individuals, commercial businesses, community and church groups and governments, giving the project truly broad based backing.

The Mural was unveiled to the public on the 19th March 2004 at a ceremony which also launched the local Aboriginal history book 'Wannin Thanbarran'. What people saw was the story of black and white contact in Australia given an Upper Hunter context. From the left the panels depict pre-contact: a family group at home in the landscape, then we the HMS Endeavour charting the coastline as the Rainbow Serpent is stirred to anger, sailors row to shore observed by the locals, a massacre takes place as a watcher witnesses from the trees, the lands are cleared for farming, the Aboriginal population is excluded to the fringes of the new towns, power and mining come to the Hunter and the land is further degraded., but then hope arises in the form of Reconciliation shown as an ongoing process which has just begun, a signpost to a future in which black and white are shown as one sharing Australia and it's unique heritage.

The Reconciliation Mural is located in the south eastern corner of Simpson Park, corner of Bridge (New England Highway) and Market Streets, Muswellbrook. The original design is on permanent display in the customer service area of the Muswellbrook Shire Council Administration Centre, 157 Maitland Road ( New England Highway), Muswellbrook. The Administration Centre is open to the public from 9am to 4.30pm Monday to Friday (closed public holidays).

The Reconciliation Mural Project was funded by Muswellbrook Shire Council, Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources, Coal and Allied Aboriginal Development Consultive Committee, NSW Ministry for the Arts, Rosemount Estate, Coolmore Australia, Muswellbrook Coal Company Limited, Mt Arthur Coal, Macquarie Generation, Anglican Parish of Muswellbrook, Arts Upper Hunter Incorporated and George Tasker.