Enjoying the Unique Museum of Big Doll "Ogoh - Ogoh"

 A day before Nyepi Day celebration, or well known with appellation Pengrupukan Day there is an attraction of parading Ogoh-ogoh held on the street in Bali. Ogoh-ogoh is a statue shaped like a giant made from bamboo and paper or other materials which paraded surround the village at the moment before the Nyepi Day celebration. After it’s been paraded, Ogoh-ogoh usually burned. But there some Ogoh-ogoh that not be burnt and displayed in the museum.

Gedong Kirtya – Learning the Balinese Manuscript

Buleleng Regency is the historical town, because it had become capital city of Bali on 1885-1958. If you visit Buleleng, you must visit Gedong Kirtya Museum. 

Gedong Kirtya Museum located in veteran street Singaraja, or 10 km from Lovina Beach. This museum was built by Resident I.J.J. Calon on June 2nd 1928, who was a government official in Bali and Lombok during the Dutch colonial era. Initially, this place is used to research the Balinese Culture by 2 Dutch scholars F.A. Liefrienk and Dr. N. van der Tuuk . The name this museum was given by I Gusti Putu djelantik (Buleleng’s King), “gedong” mean building and “kirtya” mean to endeavour. So Gedong Kirtya means the building to conserve of Balinese Culture, especially the manuscript. 

The total area of this manuscript museum is 300 squares meter and divided into 4 rooms. The first room, to keep lontar or old manuscript; the 2nd room, the place for copying the lontar; the 3rd room is the place for administration and the last room is exhibition place. Gedong Kirtya Museum collected the copies and preserves thousands of lontar (manuscripts made of palm leaf), "prasati" (transcriptions on metal plates) and books which contain various aspects of human life, such as religion, architecture, philosophy, genealogy, homeopathy, "usada" (medical manuscripts), black magic, and so on, in the Balinese, Kawi (old Javanese) and the Dutch, English and German language.  

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It is recommended place to visit when you get holidays in the Beautiful Island, where you just book your trip through a reliable travel agency. I believe your trip will be awesome and great experience.

De Mata Trick Eye Museum, An Eye Scams

Want to feel cross at an old wooden bridge and underneath there are stream of hot lava, then want to feel the love receiving flowers mark of Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X, the Yogyakarta governor, all can be found in De Mata Trick Eye Museum.

A new tourist attractions in Yogyakarta, De Mata Trick Eye Museum is located in the basement area of XT Square exactly Veteran street, Pandeyan, Umbulhardjo, Yogyakarta. This museum referred to as the biggest of museum in the world because its has 120 three dimensional images. De Mata Trick Eye Museum is  new, unique and spectacular because it present a diverse picture themes such as nature, sport, animals, super hero, ornaments. The most of these images made by Petrus Kusuma and ISI students Yogyakarta.

The facilities of De Mata Trick Eye Museum is AC, radio mall, toilet, souvenir shop, cafe and parking area. The visitors who want to visit this museum have to pay an entrance tickets about Rp 50.000 per person. This museum opened from 10.00 until 22.00



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Merapi Volcano Museum - Volcano Tourism and Educates

Indonesia has many active volcanoes, then Indonesia located in disaster-prone areas. One of tragedy that occurred in Indonesia is eruption of Merapi Mount in 1969, 1994 and 2006. To commemorate this tragedy, the government of Indonesia built a museum, this museum called Merapi Volcano Museum. 

Merapi Volcano Museum is located in the southern slope of Merapi Mount exactly in Boyong street, Hargobinangun, Sleman regency, Yogyakarta. The museum has a slogan of 'Merapi Jendela Bumi' (Merapi is the window of earth) is about 22 kilometers from Adisutjipto International Airport.

Merapi Volcano Museum has a land area of 3,4 acres and a building area of 4.470 square meters consisting of 2 floors. The first floor contains museum collection placed in several rooms with different themes. The themes is volcano world, on the merapi volcano trail, humans and volcano, earthquake and tsunami, landslide, diorama and others themes. The second floor functions as a theater showing movies about volcano. 

The contructions of museum reflecting characteristic of Yogyakarta city, such as the main entrance is representating of temple, the tpo of building like a Tugu Yogyakarta, overall building like a Merapi mount and the concept of built like a Keraton Yogyakarta. In the museum, visitors can know to chronology of Merapi mount's eruptions, photo documentation, visual aids about volcano phenomenon are completly displayed with billingual explanation, Indonesia and English language and Merapi mount zone. So, Merapi Volcano Museum has function as a center of information, research, education and volcano tourism for visitors add insight to the volcano. If the weather is nice, visitors can see the elegant peak of Merapi mount and shady trees scenery behind the musem.

The visitors who visit Merapi Volcano Musem must pay a entrance fee about Rp 3000. In addition, the parking charge is Rp 1.500 for motorcycle, Rp 2.000 for car and Rp 10.000 for bus. This museum opened from Tuesday until Sunday (Monday is closed) from 09.00-15.30.

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Miniature of Merapi Mount

Mockup Merapi mount

Vulcanic Bomp

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Subak Museum - Historic Balinese Agricultural Site

Subak Museum is a museum that shows the highlight of the Balinese agricultural system that is known as Subak.The museum has various collection of Balinese traditional agriculture tools and old documentation. It is located in Sanggulan Village, Kediri sub district, Tabanan regency. Approximately 2 kilometers in the east of Tabanan town and about 4 kilometers west of the road intersection leading to kediri. It takes about 40minutes to reach this museum from Denpasar city. Subak Museum is opened for public and it is one of the tourist destination in the west part of Bali, Tabanan regency. 

Entering the museum, visitors will experience a cool atmosphere due to the large trees that shade the museum. Subak museum was officiated by the Governor of Bali on the 13th of October 1981. This museum consists of two main buildings, an opened building and a closed building. In the opened building visitors may see a miniature of Subak demonstration. The objects that are displayed in this building are farmer equipments that include equipments that are used to make irrigation system, farm processing, crop conservation, harvesting and some kitchen equipments. The closed building consists of a library, office and an exhibition stand where visitors are able to see demonstration of the object related to farmer work and a visual audio narrating Subak activities.

Subak museum is opened on weekdays from 8:00am until 17:00pm and 8:00am until 13:00pm on Fridays and Saturdays, the museum is closed on Sundays. The admission fee is only Rp 5.000 for adults and Rp 3.000 for kids. This museum is worth for a visit because visitors get to know all the equipments and the lifestyle of Bali in the past.

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Le Mayeur Museum a Belgian Heritage

Le Mayeur Museum is a museum located in the Sanur Beach region, Denpasar City. This museum contains Adrein-Jean Le Mayeur's artwork as well as his collection of traditional Balinese art. Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur de Merpres is a descendant of a Belgian nobleman born in Brussels on the 9th of February 1880. His parents prohibited him to develop his painting talent so Le Mayeur decided to leave his family. In 1932 he arrived in a harbour in Singaraja City, he continued his journey to Denpasar. At the beginning, Le Mayeur's plan was to stay in the island for 8 months but he fell in love with the beautiful nature and cultures of Bali and decided to live along the coast of Sanur Beach. Le Mayeur then married Ni Nyoman Pollok, a Legong dancer who was also his model for his paintings.

Most of Le Mayeur's painting bring up the theme of natural panorama, cultural expressions and the beauty of Balinese ladies. According to the testament written in 1957 it is concerned that if Le Mayeur and his wife Ni Pollok pass away, his house will be given to the government as a Museum. Inside the museum, visitors get to see various paintings and artworks by Le Mayeur and Le Mayeur's historical objects such as chairs, carved tables, wardrobes, clay pots, silverware, books and statues.

Approximately, there are about 88 paintings by Le Mayeur, it is estimated that the painting was painted between 1921 to 1957. What makes the painting unique and interesting is that not all of his paintings are painted on a canvas, some were painted on hardboard, triplex, paper and sackcloth. The Le Mayeur museum is opened from 08:00am until 15:00pm on Saturdays to Thursdays, 08:00am until 12:30pm on Fridays and the museum is closed on national holidays. This museum is worth a visit especially for visitors  who are interested in arts.

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Fantasy of Bali Shell Museum

Bali Shell Museum is a great shell museum located in Sunset Road 819, Kuta. There are various types of amazing shapes and sizes of shells including hundreds or even thousands of year old fossil specimens in this Museum. This museum was opened on September 2009 and it is the first and only shell museum in Indonesia. It is opened daily from 9:00am to 21:00pm. The entrance fee to this museum is Rp 50.000 for adults and Rp 30.000 for children. Inside this three-floored museum, vast collection of seashells from Indonesia and all over the world are displayed. 

On the first floor of the museum, home ware and accessories from shell and pearls are displayed. There are items and merchandises that are available to be purchased by visitors as a souvenir. On the second floor, ancient fossils of all sorts and sizes are displayed. There are extinct Madagascan Cephalopods estimated to be over 300 million years old, giant squid-like fossil called Orthoceras estimated to be 395 million years old and other large extinct marine invertebrate specimens. Besides that, there is a big shell fossil displayed on this floor, claimed as the largest fossil in Asia. It is called the Crinions this fossil has a diameter of 1.4 meter and weighs 170 kilograms. On the third floor, visitors would find colorful and exotic shells. The specimens are comprising sea urchins, starfish, sharks and shiny shell of Cypraea Moneta or money Cowry which was once served as money in ancient times. Some glass displays containing beautiful shells are also found on this floor.

There are about 10.000 shells and 100 ancient fossils displayed in this museum. Some characters from the Ramayana epic are made up from tiny shells as statues are also displayed in this museum. Visitors also have a chance to watch documentary video about the shells life and the story behind the collection in the theater section. Bali shell museum is an unique and interesting museum it will keep visitors amused and amazed for hours.

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