54 reviews

Crafty Cottage Manual Art Center

Name: Crafty Cottage Manual Art Center
Address: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Rating: 3.9

Abu Dhabi

Al Mustarhim St - Al Sa'adah - Zone 1 - Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates

Art supply store Museum Tourist attraction

Service Options In-store shopping In-store pick-up

+971 50 327 5752

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About

Crafty Cottage Manual Art Center is a art supply store, museum and tourist attraction located in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The average rating of this business is 3.90 out of 5 stars based on 54 reviews. The street address of this business is Al Mustarhim St - Al Sa'adah - Zone 1 - Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates. Crafty Cottage Manual Art Center is closed on Friday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and other days it is open from 02:30am to 05:00pm.

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Where Crafty Cottage Manual Art Center is located at?: Crafty Cottage Manual Art Center is located at Al Mustarhim St - Al Sa'adah - Zone 1 - Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates.
What is the contact number of Crafty Cottage Manual Art Center?: The contact number of Crafty Cottage Manual Art Center is +971 50 327 5752

Reviews

3 Waza28 58 months ago

Crafty Cottage Manual Art Center

A small shop for art supplies.
Different types of paints and accessories. Expensive.

Friendly staff.

Paid parking space is available.

5 Rawdha Aljaradi 40 months ago

This place in Abu Dhabi has eco - friendly colors - non toxic. Used for many purposes small portions and big ones and its affordable. The staff are friendly and they have delivery

5 Alexis Wenceslao 58 months ago

The shop is awesome! It has a wide range of materials you can choose from! Truly a gem here in Abu Dhabj. Staff named Sweet is the sweetest of them all. She is very knowledgeable on paint and materials. Definitely coming back to this place for more art materials. Thank you!

4 Christina McDade 46 months ago

Cozy shop with speciality paint and products- I talked through my vision of my project with the owner and he pointed me in the right direction. Never tried to upsell on things, but instead suggested ideas which Is important to me. Definitely will be visiting again.

5 Nadezda Adamenko 46 months ago

This is my favorite art shop in Abu Dhabi!
Very cosy, great choice of paint and paste. They also do different classes.
The best place to buy shiny acrylic paint! Very big choice of modeling pastes! And they have good prices. Recommend

4 noura khoori 46 months ago

A neat range of paints and brushes (watercolor and acrylic esp) decoupage materials (paper glue etc) palette knives and pastes. They also hold workshops.

5 Catherine Santos 46 months ago

Got my new art supplies from Crafty Cottage. The staff were super nice and helpful, especially April. She was very accommodating. Would definitely come back here again.

5 Dania Malki 82 months ago

Great variety, bit pricy but you will find anything related to crafts and collage supplies. Not great for oil and acrylic painters as they have smaller sizes meaning not economic sizes. Love their liquid acrylics colors (also sold in smaller sizes).

5 Tom Oliver 34 months ago

What an experience. I was not expecting an incredibly detailed guided tour that lasted over 2 hours. The wealth of knowledge and passion is amazing. There is so much to look at and take in, and it is like going into someone's private collection. As a railway fan I still learnt so much, and I think any established railway or engineering enthusiast would thoroughly enjoy this.

3 Peter Haskew 57 months ago

I had a lovely time at Coleford GWR Museum yesterday, looking at the exhibits and chatting with the staff there. I'm a volunteer at the Mid Hants Railway and they are both volunteers at the Dean Forest Railway, so it was interesting to compare notes on railway operations during the COVID-19 pandemic!
I'd love to give more stars, but I feel there's a lot of work to be done. The volunteers I chatted to are aware of this, so it's no discredit to them.
Given the fantastic location (both in terms of being so close to the town centre and being in such a wonderful original building), there's a great opportunity for a really accessible museum which tells the story of the railway and its relevance to the area to a wide audience.
What they actually have is unquestionably an impressive collection - both in terms of its size and variety -, but much of it is chiefly interesting if you already know what you're looking at and what was used for. So much more could - and should - be done to explain these items in accessible terms.
To transform this from a collection into a really good museum would, of course, be an enormous amount of work, and the volunteers here are obviously working with very limited resources. I hope they get some more volunteers and are able to keep heading in the right direction.
Thank-you for an enjoyable visit. Keep up the good work!

5 Alun Wood 43 months ago

This museum was a breath a fresh air. In a 'virtual' world here is a real 'hands on' museum with real people who are happy to show you around an extensive collection of railway exhibits from a full size steam loco to a signal box where you can 'have a go' at operating the levers.. Really enjoyed our visit and the train ride was great to..

5 Jay (theonlineminerex) 34 months ago

Small collection but a brilliant one

5 Dave Ludlow 43 months ago

Visited the Museum on Friday 9th Sep whilst on holiday, the volunteers are incredibly knowledgeable and we were given a tour of the workings of a steam engine, and of their signal box with hands-on demo. Many interesting items on display as well, so well worth a visit!

5 Georgia Binmore 45 months ago

Visited this wonderful little museum today and had a great time! Staff/volunteers are absolutely lovely and are happy to give you a tour and answer any questions. Would definitely recommend. The train ride looked great for kids too!

5 Luke M 45 months ago

Excellent local museum - and amazing volunteers. Learnt loads from a fantastic 15-minute summary of the principles of signalling in the beautiful restored signal box from an expert. Highly recommended.

5 Jack Porter 45 months ago

Went here for the museum was not disappointed all the people who work their are very friendly and knowledgeable of the local area and railways and generally everything their got shown around every bit of the engine shed and even got to go in a signal box and shown how it works awsome place very friendly staff well worth the visit 5*

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Business Hours

Friday	Day off
Saturday	09:30am - 08:30pm
Sunday	09:30am - 08:30pm
Monday	09:30am - 08:30pm
Tuesday	09:30am - 08:30pm
Wednesday	09:30am - 08:30pm
Thursday	09:30am - 08:30pm
Saturday	02:30am - 05:00pm
Sunday	Day off
Monday	Day off
Tuesday	Day off
Wednesday	Day off
Thursday	Day off
Friday	02:30am - 05:00pm