Munimba-ja Arts Centre
Highlights
- Explore contemporary Aboriginal art at Munimba-ja Arts Centre, enriching your understanding of local culture and creativity.
- Engage with community-led workshops and talks, fostering connections and insights into First Nations perspectives.
- Support Indigenous artists by purchasing ethical products, ensuring your contribution directly benefits local talent and sustainability.
- Experience a vibrant cultural hub in Eumundi Square, where creativity and community come together in a welcoming atmosphere.
Munimba-ja means “welcome place.” Munimba-ja Arts Centre is now proudly located at Eumundi Square on Kabi Kabi Country, where it welcomes community and visitors into a culturally grounded space led by local Aboriginal voices. Driven by First Nations leadership, Munimba-ja presents vital contemporary Aboriginal art, ideas, and cultural experiences.
More than just a shopfront, Munimba-ja is a community-centred arts hub. Through programs, exhibitions, talks, workshops, and cultural gatherings, Munimba-ja brings people together while supporting artists at all stages of their practice. The organisation also delivers artist residencies, cultural development opportunities, and mentorship for creatives to grow with cultural integrity and confidence.
The shopfront proudly retails ethical products made by First Nations artists and businesses, ensuring that every purchase directly supports Indigenous talent, sustainability, and enterprise.
As a not-for-profit organisation, Munimba-ja Arts Centre is deeply committed to supporting Aboriginal artists living on or connected to Kabi Kabi and Jinibara Country, along with nearby regions. With a strong focus on emerging artists creating bold, contemporary, and experimental work, Munimba-ja provides a platform for new voices to be seen and celebrated.
Munimba-ja Arts Centre is more than a place—it is a living cultural home within Eumundi Square, strengthening community, culture, and creativity across the Sunshine Coast and beyond.
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Actively welcomes people with access needs.
General access
- Offers multiple options for booking – web, email, phone is available.
- Offers a range of contact methods for receiving complaints.
- Companion Cards are accepted.
- Employs people with disabilities.
- Staff are trained in disability awareness.
- Accessibility information and photos, including of a bathroom, room and/or floor plan on their website (can be emailed on request).
- Asks all visitors if there are any specific needs to be met.
- Advise tour guides of the access needs of guests at the time of booking (includes pick up and drop off requirements)
Communication
Welcomes and assists people who have challenges with learning, communication, understanding and behaviour. (includes people with autism, intellectual disability, Down syndrome, acquired brain injury (ABI), dyslexia and dementia)
- Staff are trained in communicating with people with learning or behavioural challenges.
- Uses Plain English / easy read signage and information (includes menus and emergency information)
- A quiet space is available at the venue/ facility.
Physical – Mobility
Caters for people with sufficient mobility to climb a few steps but who would benefit from fixtures to aid balance. (This includes people using walking frames and mobility aids)
- Seating in common areas including reception area
Physical – Wheelchair
Caters for people who use a wheelchair.
- Step free outdoor pathways (includes picnic areas, barbecues and shelters)
- A step free main entrance to the building and/or reception area (includes ramps or slopes with a maximum gradient of 1:14, otherwise are too steep for wheelchairs)
- Step free access to the conference or function room
- Doorways which are easy to open and have lever handles (doorways 850mm or wider when open and not heavy).
- An accessible public toilet which is unlocked.
- A wheelchair accessible toilet / shower and change room is available.