Salamanca Arts Centre

Month of visit: December 2024 A charming and artsy spot that’s a must-visit when you’re in Hobart! This place offers a wonderful variety of shops showcasing the unique handcrafted goods of Tasmania, making it perfect for anyone who appreciates local artistry and creativity. If you’re exploring Hobart, be sure to add this to your itinerary—it’s an experience not to be missed!

A lovely collection of I dependant shops, galleries and cafes just back from the Hobart water front.

The Arts centre has a cafe, performing arts space, boutique galleries and retail outlets where you can buy direct from the artists and gallery owner. The Tricycle Cafe is quaint yet provides a wide selection of tasty food & beverages. The performance space and theatre host live theatre and film productions. Clean amenities with easy access. We enjoyed our visit and brunch.

The art shops and galleries are worth a look but as a maker myself, their prices are ridiculously expensive, in the end I found it a bit insulting. The commission must be huge for the location and crowd, I feel sorry for the artists. They would sell 10x more of they weren't so overpriced.

You can find a lot of designs and artworks in such a historical building. There is a quiet place for freelance performers to perform / play music. Sitting and listening to them there. Pretty comfortable. Public toilet in there.Street parking nearby.

Several galleries of mainly modern, very modern art, most of which bear quite questionable art value, frankly. The historical building us great though indeed.

only drove by but will visit again end of this year again

Great place to walk around and enjoy the art and architecture. A large number of shops and restaurants in the building and area. The building is a few floors and there are modern, contemporary and traditional artists. Easily spend a couple of hours looking around and more on Saturday with the Salamanca market is right outside the door.

The Arts Centre is a vibrant arts community located at Hobart's Salamanca Place, close to the waterfront and a short walk from the city's central business district. They host artist studios, galleries, venues, retail outlets, arts organisations & public spaces, in historic sandstone warehouses. We wandered through alcoves lined with galleries & shops with locals for live music or see cutting edge visual art & theatre.

SAC is a cultural hub in the heart of tourist-driven Salamanca, and is the only section of Salamanca I WANT to go when I want to get someone something beautiful. There are a bunch of gorgeous little shops and galleries under SAC's roof, all worth exploring--though if you need recommendations, my hands down favourite is Spacebar, closely followed by the maker and FIND Contemporary Jewellery Collective (please buy me anything from any of these shops and you'll be onto a winner). It would be remiss of me to not mention Bruny Island Cheese Company's little outpost shop here, too, because... well, because cheese. There's even a little cafe and a unique theatre with a natural rock wall at the back of the stage! Definitely spend some time exploring here if you're in the area.

Well worth a visit if you like arts and crafts... there's a silversmith up one of the side streets that sells some really unique jewelry too... Great place to spend an hour or two drifting about, looking at arts and crafts, people watching and to have a coffee and a sticky bun :-)