Brambuk Cultural Centre TripAdvisor Review

Brambuk Cultural Centre Souvenir Area and Cafe

Brambuk Cultural Center Indigenous Info Area

Brambuk Cultural Center Outdoor Platform

A simple, go check it out yourself, little excitement and informal place to visit to enlighten ourselves about the local indigenous culture surrounding Grampians.

Very few staff are available during the Easter holidays and as such, have restricted ability to actually conduct various activities such as boomerang throwing. Moreover, boomerang throwing is subject to weather conditions.

Boomerang painting was a fun experience, whereby my friends and I were left in a circular room covered in indigenous style paintings on the wall. We were left to freely make use of the cups, basic paints, paintbrushes, paper towels, aluminium foil to paint our boomerangs; while referring to a whiteboard indicating the different meanings to indigenous designs. There was a whole variety ranging from: tribes, lizards, snakes, water, the sun, groups, men/women sitting etc.

It was an  extremely informal exercise and involved none of the intimate-teaching-about-indigenous-exercise I expected it to have. All we did was paid for our boomerangs, then were left to freely do what we want in the room.

Boomerang painters are allowed to leave their boomerangs overnight to dry and collect it at a later date.

Boomerang costs:
- Large $15 (throwable)
- Small $ 15

Advice for the cafe:
- The mixed platter cost $20 per pax.
- A booking must be made for the mixed platter/emu pie/kangaroo pie atleast a day prior to your intended visit.
- They request for: name, contact number, approximate time of visit. Unfortunately, staff members of cafe do not attempt to contact you if you are late.
- Disappointingly, they do not listen to their cafe voice messages even when they are the unable to attend to the original call.
- No deposit is made for the mixed platter so they will be more than willing to give away your mixed platter serving if you are unable to make it in time.
- Food is not halal.

What is on the mixed platter (limited amount of meat):
- Emu sausages (tastes like tandoori chicken)
- Kangaroo cuts (tastes like beef)
- Crocodile cuts (chewy but tasteless)
- Picke and bush tomato dip
- Scones with sweet jam and tasteless cream-butter spread
- Lemon myrtle pot of tea

Brambuk Cultural Centre was conveniently located walking-distance to my acccomodation at Grampians Miners Cottage.