Museum of Puppet, Learning to Know the Type of Puppet from All Indonesia

Wayang Museum - Kawasa Batavia Old town located in Jakarta is a historical tourist area that provides information on various kinds of valuable information that you can know. One of the historic places that you can visit the Museum of Puppet is very close to the Museum Bank Indonesia.

Puppet Museum attractions presents a variety of puppet collections from all over Indonesia, such as Java, Bali, Sumatra, Sundanese and several collections of puppets from abroad. Currently estimated that the collection of puppets contained within the museum has reached 5,147 pieces obtained from grants, donations and purchases.

Based on its history, the Wayang name is an etymological term that implies "Shadows", where our ancestors of ancient times used the medium to communicate with the ancestral spirits of an intermediate named puppeteer. Along with the development of the era, now Wayang stage has become a means of education, entertainment and media information about a story and history of the past.

Collections of Wayang Museum Jakarta

Jakarta Wayang Museum was inaugurated around 1975 by Ali Sadikin who at that time served as Governor of DKI Jakarta. Before turning into Wayang Museum, this museum is named as the Batavia museum founded by the Dutch in 1912 and restored in 1938.

Many people say that the Wayang Museum Building is a former Dutch Church founded in 1736. But that assumption is a big mistake, because the church has collapsed in the aftermath of a major earthquake, and a museum was built on the land.

When you arrive at the Puppet Museum attraction, you will be welcomed by traditional Betawi art "ondel - ondel". And enter the museum room, you will see various types of puppets that you may never know before, such as Wayang Golek, Glass Puppets, Paintings, Wayng Puppets, Wayang Suket and many others.

Puppet Museum attraction is very well suited for those who want to know more about the history of wayang in Indonesia and even abroad. The Wayang Museum is open to the public from Tuesday to Sunday at 9 am to 3 pm, with an entrance fee of between six hundred rupiah and two thousand rupiah per person but there may be a change in the price of admission.