The Didgeridoo Hut and Art Gallery

Aboriginal art gallery · Humpty Doo

The Didgeridoo Hut and Art Gallery

Aboriginal art gallery · Humpty Doo

Lot 10 Arnhem Hwy, Humpty Doo NT 0836, Australia

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Authentic Indigenous art, didgeridoos, and souvenirs.

Lot 10 Arnhem Hwy, Humpty Doo NT 0836, Australia Get directions

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"Didgeridoos and Dot Paintings An indigenous-owned art gallery located at the busy junction of the Arnhem and Stuart Highways a half hour outside Darwin, The Didgeridoo Hut prides itself on selling genuine Aboriginal artwork from remote Top End communities, with whom the owners Dennis and Janis have personal relationships. In fact artists often come to the shop to demonstrate their painting and didgeridoo making skills and to share their stories with visitors. The works on display are high-quality and overwhelming; thankfully, the friendly staff are very knowledgeable about the artists and their symbolism—spiral circles represent waterholes and tool imagery usually stands for a man or woman. The prices are fair, but some have a little bargaining room built in."

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B LEE

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Was an interesting experience. The art center was cozy. Some schedule changes happened and the tour was delayed for 30min. Beside of that all fine. We could lear more of aboriginal people’s life and thoughts. Got a tiny bit of their long and deep cultural backgrounds Would not say I could learn everything in such a short time.

Daniel Arndt

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Located at the intersection of Arnhem and Stuart Highways in Humpty Doo. We almost drove straight by the entrance drive, if it wasn’t for Google Maps. The entrance is an adjacent to a large asphalt car park for an Agricultural chemical business, which questions whether you’ve reached the right place or not. The gallery is up a small path, over an earth mound and through some trees, almost impossible to see from the road or car park. The gallery itself is a collection of dongas and sea containers around an open courtyard. Worlds away from your upmarket galleries in Darwin. The unframed indigenous artworks are contained in cardboard portfolios and horizontal filing cabinets. The didgeridoos stacked up against the wall. A little scary to see everything stored with little respect to protecting them against the elements. The quality, design and authenticity of the artworks however is far better than most/all of the galleries we’d seen in Kakadu. We were greeted by the most laidback bush territorian, who told us to have a look around and let him know if we were interested in anything. We ended up finding the perfect painting, and felt we didn’t end up paying some extravagant commission. It was certainly worth our while making the stop at the Didgeridoo Hut and Art Gallery. It reflects the old adage don’t judge a book by its cover - you certainly find some gems here if you prepared to look.

Harald Padeborn

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If you are interested to purchase a Didgeridoo this is a great spot to get one. Germans can buy a booklet how to play the Didgeridoo in German, too,

Deanny Grant

Google

Doesn’t seem to be open anymore, don’t bother driving out Signs are still up but no one there and definitely no didg’s

Google Acc User

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A real NT style shop with authentic local wares. None of that imported fake ribbish.

David Cy

Google

Small little shop. Friendly shopkeeper showed us how to play the digeridoo

rob wade

Google

Very small but nice what was there

Zhen Liu

Google

Very disappointed. Was hoping to see and hear more after 2 hrs of driving but it's just a small shack and there is very little information regarding the music, the instrument or the culture. The gentleman who was there just sat at one side and did his own things the whole time we were there without looking at us while we hunted for some information about the place.