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5 Aboriginal cultural centres to visit

Brewarrina Fish Traps, BrewarrinaCredit: Destination NSW

Traditional Aboriginal fish traps in Brewarrina (Ngemba Country), also known as Baiame's Ngunnhu.

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5 Aboriginal cultural centres to visit

Brewarrina Fish Traps, Brewarrina Credit: Destination NSW

Traditional Aboriginal fish traps in Brewarrina (Ngemba Country), also known as Baiame's Ngunnhu.

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New South Wales is home to the largest Aboriginal population in Australia, with more than 80 unique groups around the state. Discover the diversity of the world’s oldest living culture as you head out of Sydney and visit Aboriginal cultural centres in regional New South Wales. Through seeing artefacts and artworks, taking guided tours and trying bush tucker, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the areas you visit. 

Brewarrina Aboriginal Cultural Museum  

On the banks of the Barwon River at Brewarrina in the state’s northwest, the Brewarrina Aboriginal Cultural Museum stands where Aboriginal groups have been meeting for thousands of years. The museum looks over 500m of National Heritage-listed rock weirs and pools (also known as Baiame’s Ngunnhu) that local Aboriginal people built to catch fish as they swam upstream. Check out the artefacts in the museum before taking a one-hour guided tour to appreciate the ingenious design of the fish traps. You can also enjoy a coffee or pick up some locally designed souvenirs at the centre’s Riverbank Coffee Bar and Gifts.

Yarrawarra Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Corindi Beach 

Corindi Beach, 30 minutes north of Coffs Harbour on the NSW Mid North Coast, is the home of the Garby people, in the northern lowlands of the Gumbaynggirr Nation. At the Yarrawarra Aboriginal Cultural Centre you can learn about Gumbaynggirr culture in the Jalumbo Keeping Place, where artefacts dating back more than 4,000 years are on display. Surrounded by bushland and native wildlife, the centre has accommodation for up to 70 people, a function centre, and serves food with a native twist in the Pipeclay Café. Visiting with a group? The centre can also arrange cultural and bush tucker tours as well as traditional weaving and painting classes.

Brewarrina Fish Traps, Brewarrina Credit: Destination NSW

Book a Brewarrina fish traps tour through the Brewarrina Aboriginal Cultural Museum. 

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Brewarrina Fish Traps, Brewarrina Credit: Destination NSW

Book a Brewarrina fish traps tour through the Brewarrina Aboriginal Cultural Museum. 

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Wadjar Regional Indigenous Gallery, Yarrawarra Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Coffs Harbour. Credit: Wadjar Regional Indigenous Gallery, Yarrawarra Aboriginal Cultural Centre

Yarrawarra Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Corindi Beach

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Wadjar Regional Indigenous Gallery, Yarrawarra Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Coffs Harbour. Credit: Wadjar Regional Indigenous Gallery, Yarrawarra Aboriginal Cultural Centre

Yarrawarra Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Corindi Beach

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Minjungbal Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Tweed Heads  

The Minjungbal Aboriginal Cultural Centre is part of the Tweed Heads Historic Site on the far North Coast. Found on the edge of the Ukerebagh Nature Reserve, the centre is run by the local Aboriginal community and here you can find out about life in Bundjalung Country through museum exhibits, videos and art. Join Aboriginal guides on tours around the museum and into the reserve.

Armidale and Region Aboriginal Cultural Centre and Keeping Place, Armidale 

Take a guided tour of the Armidale Aboriginal Cultural Centre and Keeping Place to learn about Aboriginal history and life today in the New England region of northwest NSW. Part of the permanent collection of artefacts is on display, and the centre also has various exhibitions throughout the year covering all forms of art by local and regional artists. There are workshops for young and old where you can learn how to play traditional games and how to paint with ochre, from grinding and mixing the pigments to the symbols that tell your own story. As well as taking home the artwork you created yourself, you can buy one from a local artist in the gift shop.

Wungunja Cultural Centre, Trangie  

The old scout hall in the town of Trangie, in the Macquarie Valley in the state’s Central West, has been transformed into the Wungunja Cultural Centre. Here visitors can view artefacts from around the region: axes, boomerangs, saws, rubbing stones and anvil stones are all on display, and you can also see two large carved burial trees that once stood nearby on the banks of the Macquarie River. After being taken to Sydney to be part of the Australian Museum’s collection in the 1960s, the trees now have a special place in the cultural centre. If you’d like a guided tour you’ll need to book ahead, but visitors are welcome to look around whenever the centre is open.

Sunrise, Fingal Head Credit: David Kirkland

The Minjungbal Aboriginal Cultural Centre is located near Fingal Head. 

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Sunrise, Fingal Head Credit: David Kirkland

The Minjungbal Aboriginal Cultural Centre is located near Fingal Head. 

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