Rare Trades Centre Open Day

Step into the world of heritage crafts and trades at the Australian Centre for Rare Arts & Forgotten Trades. The Rare Trades Centre is opening its doors for a special Open Day with free entry, inviting you to explore the space, watch live workshops in action, and meet the passionate team behind it all. Located on Wadawurrung Country in Ballarat—UNESCO’s Creative City of Craft and Folk Art—the Centre is Australia’s only venue exclusively dedicated to preserving, promoting, and teaching rare trades and traditional crafts. With skilled artisans from Australia and beyond, the Centre offers specialised workshops across disciplines like metalwork, woodcraft, fashion and textiles, decorative arts, leather-working, heritage building, and fibre arts.