Explore Tasmania
Tasmania’s third-largest city, BURNIE, sitting beside a container port on Emu Bay 15km west of Penguin, was until recently a major industrial centre known for paper manufacture. However, the wane of the paper industry and the city’s proximity to rich farmland and a beautiful coastline have prompted the government to court tourism.
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Makers' Workshop
Makers' Workshop
The Makers’ Workshop, a cluster of perspex-skinned boxes sitting beside the beach (and highway) at the west end of town, was planned principally as a home for the community-based, non-profit Creative Paper Mill. Lifesize handmade paper sculptures are on display in the central atrium, as is an exhibit on the former industry, and you can have a go at papermaking by taking a tour of a workshop. A changing roster of artists – ceramicists, painters, jewellers, milliners – set up temporary workshops in one wing to answer questions and showcase their work, all of which is for sale. That of other Tasmanian artists is sold in an excellent giftshop.
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Penguin interpretive centre
Penguin interpretive centre
The free penguin interpretive centre is housed in a long, thin building behind the Makers’ Workshop. Visitors observe Little penguins via a periscope-style mirrored tunnel. The best time to view the penguins is after dusk between September and April.
