About this place
What to expect
Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre is the Indigenous community controlled art centre of Northeast Arnhem Land. Located in Yirrkala, a small Aboriginal community on the northeastern tip of the Top End of the Northern Territory. Our primarily Yolŋu (Aboriginal) staff of around thirty people services the artists of Yirrkala and the approximately twenty-five homeland centres in the Miwatj Region, a radius of around 200 kilometres. In the 1960's, Narritjin Maymuru set up his own beachfront gallery from which he sold art that now graces many major museums and private collections. He is counted among the art centre's main inspirations and founders, and his picture hangs in the museum. His vision of Yolŋu-owned business to sell Yolŋu art that started with a shelter on a beach has now grown into a thriving business that exhibits and sells globally. Within the art centre is the Mulka Museum, which houses a collection of Yolŋu bark paintings, carvings and artefacts and includes the original Yirrkala church panels and a display on the bark petitions, two pieces of great historical and cultural significance. The art centre also includes the Yirrkala Printspace, the Saltwater Auditorium and the Yalu, an open-access community computer lab. It also operates an adjacent guest house.