Gallery Alma Blou

Gallery Alma Blou in Landhuis Habaai is the oldest and largest art gallery in Curaçao, featuring the island’s most exquisite artwork.

Lusette and Herman have the courage to purchase a plantation house, Landhuis Habaai, which has been empty for many years and was considerably dilapidated, and transform it from ruins into a monument for art in the twenty-first century. Visual arts are now displayed in the specious main building and original handcrafts has their own space in the folk art store. This all come together in this historic building at the Frater Radulphusweg at the outskirts of Willemstad where art lovers undeniably know to find their way.

Visiting Gallery Alma Blou at Landhuis Habaai is also visiting the Curaçao Folk Art Shop. Since the beginning of the gallery, it was important for Herman and Lusette Verboom to promote not only the local art but also put the local artisans in the spotlight by presenting their skills to make very original handcraft products to the public. Today the gallery and the Folk Art Shop still complement each other exhibiting local art and handmade crafts but are completely separated from each other. While visiting Landhuis Habaai, you will first go through the different exhibition areas of the Gallery leading you to the Folk Art Shop.

Themes and materials used by the featured artists vary widely, but all art has a Caribbean energy. Artists are inspired by the colors, architecture, people, underwater life, the fresh wind, mythology, the Caribbean Sea and the local landscape. All of this diversity triggers the artist’s imagination found in their resulting body of work.