Salamanca Arts Centre

Salamanca Arts Centre is a major community arts centre located in seven historic Georgian sandstone warehouses at 77 Salamanca Place on Hobart's waterfront. Established in 1976, it occupies 1830s-1850s former whaling and maritime warehouses. It is notable as Tasmania's leading hub for contemporary arts, housing galleries, artist studios, performance venues, and shops within a heritage precinct adjacent to Salamanca Market.

Visitors can expect a complex of interconnected heritage sandstone warehouses housing contemporary art galleries, artist studios, a theatre, and retail spaces. The setting is the historic Salamanca Place waterfront with cobbled streets and Georgian architecture. Visitors can explore free exhibitions, watch artists at work, attend live theatre, music and dance performances, and browse design and craft shops. Spaces are spread across multiple levels linked by courtyards and stairways.

Comprises seven Georgian sandstone warehouses built between the 1830s and 1850s to service Hobart's whaling, shipping and commercial port. As port activity declined the buildings became vacant and were repurposed. Salamanca Arts Centre was established in 1976 to provide affordable studios and venues for artists, preserving the heritage buildings as a community arts precinct.

Tasmania's major community arts centre and hub for contemporary visual arts, theatre, dance and music. Supports resident artists, galleries and performance programs and plays a central role in Hobart's cultural life, forming part of the Salamanca Place and waterfront cultural precinct alongside Salamanca Market.