Museum Wayang Kota Jakarta

Puppet Museum has an artistic building in the Great North Door, Street 27 West Jakarta, was built in 1912, previously as the land of the church, built in 1640 under the name De Oude Hollandsche Kerk (Old Dutch Church). In 1732 the Museum Wayang renovated and renamed the De Nieuwe Kerk Hollandsche (New Holland Church). This church building had been completely destroyed by an earthquake. Bataviasche Genootschap Kunsten van en Wetenschappen (Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences), which are the institutions dealing with science and culture of Indonesia bought this building.

The institute building was then sent to the Stichting Oud Batavia (Batavia Lama Foundation) and on December 22, 1939. In Puppet Museum was built created a museum with the name of Oude Bataviasche Museum (Museum of Old Batavia). In 1957 the building was presented to the Institute of Culture Indonesia (Indonesian Cultural Institute) and on 17 September 1962 submitted to the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia, which is then delivered to the DKI Jakarta Administration June 23, 1968 to be a Puppet Museum, the inauguration took place on August 13, 1975.

Shadow Puppet (commonly known as wayang) in Indonesia, especially in Java, is initially a product of the culture of the Royal Court. It was first used as an instrument of worship to the ancestors, and after the Hindu culture entered Indonesia iaround the 5th century, he developed a shift in values. Typical Indonesian wayang world have influence, especially in terms of story, such as the Ramayana (Story of Rama) and Mahabharata (Great Bharata), making presentations constantly changing shape and with a wider range of performance and the theme of the story. In subsequent developments puppet possessed by Indonesia has become a tradition, which has been able to survive in a supportive community that consists of various elements. Museum visitors are invited to know the different characters, attitudes and behavior through stories from different regions puppet performance that has a weight of high value in our culture and displays a collection of puppets like shadow puppets, puppet show, the Statue of puppets, shadow masks, puppets beber, puppet glass , gamelan (traditional musical instrument sets) and painting puppet.

Puppet Museum also displays various collections of puppets and dolls from friendly countries such as Malaysia, Thailand, Suriname, China, Vietnam, France, India and Cambodia. This not only become an object for recreation, learning for students / enthusiasts can be done at the Museum, and Museum can even be used as a place for training, documentation and research center of the shadow puppets, and can be used as an inter-regional and international media on knowledge culture. To support its existence, in staging a puppet museum and attraction of making puppets regularly organized.

Puppet theater is using a puppet or a human dancer. Puppets can be made from the skin that do puppet play, or of wood. Museum Wayang (Puppet Museum used to be called as well) is a museum that holds a collection of puppets from various regions in Indonesia and even from other states. The idea of ??building a Puppet Museum began when H. Ali Sadikin, Jakarta Governor, attended the second week of the puppet museum in 1974. With the support of the committee weeks museum of puppets, puppet lover, and the Governor of Jakarta, the buildings in the Great North Road Door No. 27, West Jakarta decided to be a Puppet Museum. The museum was officially opened on August 13, 1975 by Governor of Jakarta, H. Ali Sadikin.

Puppet Museum building was built at the site of an old church, built by the VOC in 1640 under the name "de Oude Kerk Hollandsche". The church was used as a house of worship for Dutch civil and military in Indonesia until 1732. In 1733 the church was renovated and renamed the "de Nieuwe Kerk Hollandsche". The building was there until 1808, until the earthquake broke it makes the church can not be occupied again. At the location where the church stood before, a building and then built, it's one that stands there today, which initially serves as a warehouse owned by Geo Wehry & Co. Initially in 1912, the front side Puppet Museum was built in Neo Renaissance style, but then in 1938 the entire building was renovated and adapted to be like building at the time of Dutch colonialism. Park open Puppet Museum located in the former pages Dutch church was estimated as the funeral of Governor General Jan Coen Peiterszoon.

Puppet Museum's collection is very diverse, both in small and large sizes. Wayang shadow puppet museum collects Indonesia, such as Kedu, Tejokusuman, Ngabean, Surakarta, Banyumas, Cirebon, Gedog, Sadat, MADIA Krucil, Sasak, moth, Revelation, Golden Deer, Measure, torch, klitik, and Beber. Puppet Museum has a collection of rare as well as wayang puppet Diamond, Suket, Beber and Revolution. In addition, the Puppet Museum also has several collections of wooden puppets like Chess, smacking Cirebon, Kebumen, Pekalongan, Bandung, Gundala-Gundala of Tanah Karo, and Si Gale-Gale from the Land of Batak. There is a collection of masks derived from Cirebon, Bali and Central Java. Some other items are also displayed in the Museum Wayang, such as gamelan, Blencong lights, glass puppets, puppets zinc, and painting. There are several collections that are being sourced from overseas, some of them are from Kelantan, Malaysia, Suriname, French, Cambodia, and Thailand.
Creation of Work World Heritage

On 7 November 2003, the UN recognizes Indonesia as a puppet creation of world heritage. Therefore, if you visit Jakarta you should enter into the Puppet Museum in one of a list of interesting places you must visit.

Museum Wayang puppet making presentations at regular intervals on every second Sunday, the third and fourth of each month, 10:00 to 14:00 pm. Puppet Museum located next to Fatahillah Square, and near the Jakarta History Museum and Fine Arts and Ceramics Museum is also interesting to visit. Puppet Museum located in Old Town (Old City) area formerly known as Batavia. There are many buildings inherited from the age of Batavia around the museum, such as Red Shop (Shop Red), Kota Intan Bridge, Batavia Hotel, Maritime Museum (Museum Bahari), Syahbandar Tower, Port of Palm Sunda. Museum Bank Mandiri and Bank Indonesia Museum situated at the cross of busway terminal, about 300 meters from the Museum Wayang.

If you are interested in Indonesia currency and banking history, then you should visit the museum. You might want to enjoy the unique Old Town Station inside the station, and see the activity inside. To achieve the Puppet Museum you can take a taxi or public transportation, like busway. If you choose to ride busway, please ride the busway corridor route first with Blok M to the Old Town. You need to get off at Terminal Old Town (Old City Terminal) which is the last terminal where the busway will stop before returning to Block M. You can reach the Puppet Museum a short walk from the terminal, because the distance is only about 300 meters, or you can ride a bike where the locals refer to it as motorcycles.