Araluen Cultural Precinct, Art museum and cultural center in Alice Springs, Australia

Araluen Cultural Precinct, formerly the Araluen Centre for Arts & Entertainment, occupies a site in Alice Springs (Mparntwe). Its Araluen Arts Centre holds four galleries, including the Albert Namatjira Gallery, and a theatre seating about five hundred. The same grounds contain the Museum of Central Australia with the Strehlow Research Centre, the Central Australian Aviation Museum, Central Craft, Yaye's Cafe, the Kookaburra Memorial, the Yeperenye Sculpture and Aboriginal sacred sites.

The Araluen Cultural Precinct was formerly called the Araluen Centre for Arts & Entertainment. It now groups the Araluen Arts Centre, the Museum of Central Australia with the Strehlow Research Centre, the Central Australian Aviation Museum, Central Craft, Yaye's Cafe, the Kookaburra Memorial, the Yeperenye Sculpture and Aboriginal sacred sites. The arts centre holds four galleries, including the Albert Namatjira Gallery, and a theatre seating about five hundred.

The Araluen Arts Centre holds four galleries, among them the Albert Namatjira Gallery, and each year hosts Desert Mob, Central Australia's largest First Nations art event. Works by regional artists such as Daisy Jugadai Napaltjarri have been shown here. Central Craft runs ceramics, stained glass, painting and fabric workshops on site and holds the annual Beanie Festival.

The precinct groups the Araluen Arts Centre, Museum of Central Australia, Central Australian Aviation Museum, Central Craft and Yaye's Cafe on one site, so allow time to move between buildings. The theatre seats about five hundred people, and Desert Mob fills the galleries each year, so check what is on before setting out.

The front window of the Araluen Arts Centre is a large stained glass work made locally to a design by Wenten Rubuntja, based on his 1987 painting Arrernte Country. On the same grounds stands the Yeperenye Sculpture, built by metal sculptor Dan Murphy with students from the Centre for Appropriate Technology, which celebrates the Yeperenye Caterpillar Dreaming, a major Tjukurpa for the Arrernte people of Mparntwe.