D'Kar is a small San settlement about 35 kilometres north of Ghanzi on the road to Maun, and the Kuru D'Kar Museum and Cultural Centre is the heart of it. The complex houses both a museum and working studios where San artists produce paintings, drawings, and crafts. The Kuru Art Project was established in 1990 and has produced some of the most striking indigenous art to emerge from southern Africa — vivid, figurative work depicting hunting, trance dances, animal spirits, and daily life, rendered in a style unmistakably its own.
The museum displays historical and ethnographic material about San culture: tools, traditional dress, musical instruments, and documentation of the community's relationship with the land. The attached gallery and shop sell original paintings and crafts at prices considerably lower than you will find in Maun or Gaborone. The Kuru Development Trust, which manages the centre, uses sales to fund community development projects. Every August, D'Kar hosts the Kuru Traditional Dance and Music Festival, a gathering of San communities from across Botswana and Namibia that is one of the most authentic cultural events in the region.