Visit Indonesia Museum year at Puri Lukisan museum

After successed with Visit Indonesia year 2009, again our gaverment, Goverment of Indonesia launched their continue program,  "visit Indonesia year 2010" and this year is  reated a theme which is the theme for this year is  "visit Indonesia Museum Year". Yeah it is right theme because Indonesia with our motto Ultimate in Diversity  consist of  a lot of cultures and every culture has their own identities, It is very great to see and know how rich is our world with the cultures that you are never see before.

The island of Bali is well known for its rich cultural heritage, which is reflected in Balu's 20 museums which houses of variety of collections ranging from antrhropological artifacts throught the collections of of both classical and modern arts.

In Ubud, an international village, although Ubud is choosing is the best city in Asia but it is much better if we call Ubud a village rather than city, Its sound deeper, we has a lot of museums, as we know all, it is way Arts is still alive and progress here. Let is disscussing Museum around Ubud. Firstly let is discussing about the oldest one, Puri Lukisan Museum. Puri Lukisan Museum is located at Ubud main road with its collection specializing in modern traditional Balinese paintings and wood carvings. Its mission is to preserve, develop and document traditional Balinese arts. It is home to the finest collection of modern traditional Balinese painting and wood carving on the island, spanning from the pre-war (1930 – 1945) to the post-war (1945 – present) era. The collection includes important examples of all of the artistic styles in Bali including the Sanur, Batuan, Ubud, Young Artist and Keliki schools. This picture is (painting of  IGusti Nyoman Deblog  with title  birth of Anoman, one of the museum collections).

This Museum consists of three main building such as:

• Building I (North) – the Pitamaha Gallery houses the Pre-War modern traditional Balinese paintings (1930 – 1945) and I Gusti Nyoman Lempad and collection
• Building II (West) – the Ida Bagus Made Gallery houses the Ida Bagus made the Estate Collection
• Building III (East) – the Wayang Gallery houses Wayang Painting Collection and used for temporary exhibitions.

Puri Lukisan Museum is just 5 minutes by motor or 15 minutes by walk from our place, brata 1 homestay, so if you are intersting, want to know about this museum collections more, please visit this museum soon and don't hesitancy to stay in brata 1 homestay, Cheap Accomodation in Ubud during your plan to visit this museum in Ubud.