The museum offers a tea/ coffee break package for the visitors while enjoying the tribal collections kept well inside this museum. Located in East Denpasar, it is relatively easy to find the location of this museum. If you like primitive art, this museum can be a great choice for you.
Made Gde Putrawan founded this museum, also knows as Putrawan Museum of Art or PUMA Museum located at JL. Trenggana, No. 108, Penatih-Denpasar. PUMA Museum was founded on October 14, 2004, and inaugurated by the former Mayor of Denpasar, Drs. A A. Puspayoga on December 31, 2004. The museum is a proof of love of Made Gde Putrawan’s to primitive (tribal) art which eventually turned him into a collector of works of art, both painting, sculpture and primitive art. At first, the art objects in the museum were collected as an investment, however as time goes by, a sense of affection grows for primitive collections in this museum that makes it hard to sell the collection even though it usually comes high price offer. Nowadays, there are more than 300 primitive art objects can be found in this museum.

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Ida Bagus Marka Museum is located in Sukawati – Gianyar. In this museum, you will find various collections of wooden sculptures by Ida Bagus Marka. Not only to showcase the artworks, some sculptures on the gallery are also for sale. Many beautiful Bali wooden sculptures depicted Hindu God or Goddess, nature, animal; everything is well displayed in this museum. Read more...

The Houses of Masks and Puppets is a place where various kinds of masks and puppets from Bali and different regions in Indonesia have been collected, stored, and displayed for public since 2006. Hundreds of colourful and intriguing masks and shadow puppets from Bali and at least a dozen other parts of Indonesia are expertly displayed and well preserved. Completed with a tranquil tropical garden and nice small cafe in the museum area, make the visitors feel comfortable to spend an hour in this museum. And the location is close to Goa Gajah (Gajah Cave) only about 5 minutes drive. The beginning story of this museum started with the meeting of two friends with mutual interest Mr Prayitno and Mr Hadi Sunyoto. They’re both love to collect masks and puppets from all over Indonesia and even the world. Finally, they decided to build this museum to showcase their collections which have swelled up to thousands of items at that time. In 1998 a Setia Darma Mask and Wayang House was built in Bali, on a quarter of a hectare piece of land. After the hunting of collections over the years, there are around 1200 masks and 6900 puppets, sculptures and puppets from all over Indonesia and several countries such as Malaysia, Japan, India, Japan, Mexico, China, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Laos and several countries on the continent Africa. Setia Darma Museum is also equipped with an open stage for arts and cultural performances. This open stage is expected to accommodate around 500 spectators with a view of rice fields. There is also a large hall that is usually used for music or drama events. Read more...

Gedong Kirtya Museum is located in the complex of Sasana Budaya, where also the Puri Agung, the old palace of the Buleleng Kingdom—realizing the potential of the library as a tourist attraction and its historically interesting location, ex-Bupati of Buleleng Drs. Ketut Wirata Sindhu in 2008 decided to upgrade the Gedong Kirtya library into a full museum. This museum collects, copies and preserves thousands of lontar (manuscripts made of palm leaf), “prasasti” (transcriptions on metal plates) and books. All of those ancient writings contain various information about human life, such as religion, architecture, philosophy, genealogy, homoeopathy, “usada” (medical manuscripts), black magic, and so on, in the Balinese, Kawi (old Javanese) and the Dutch, English and German language. Gedong Kirtya Museum has two arch gates that are still original and well preserved. In each entrance, there is any information about what years it was manufactured. The outer gate was made on June 3, 1939, and the inner gate was made on May 31, 1933. Both of these arch gates look ancient and original made of brick, cement and sand. Some parts of the gates are decorated with relief of Mahabarata puppet stories. Based on the information from the head of the museum, there were only two main buildings back in a few decades ago, the Kirtya Building as a place to store palm trees, and warehouse building located at the back area of museum. Now there are five new buildings in the museum area, three office buildings, a traditional pavilion called bale bengong for multi-functioned purposes and a toilet. The Kirtya Building was made during the Dutch colonial period, which later then handed to a Dutch foundation, then Bali Documentation Center, and on 1986 it was finally given to the Buleleng Regency government. In the museum yard, there is a beautiful garden area that is decorated with pule trees (local variant of palm trees commonly grown for gardenscape), red frangipanis trees and carpet of green grass. Gedong Kirtya was built in Singaraja by a Dutchman named L.J.J Caron who came to Bali to meet with kings and religious leaders to discuss about Bali literary arts (lontar). He believed that all lontar that were stored in Gedong Kirtya is a treasure that should be preserved so that it won’t be damaged or lost. Before known as the museum, this area was known as a foundation named “Kirtya Lefrink – Van der Tuuk” which was deliberately established to protect Balinese literary arts. F. A Lefrink was an assistant regent of the Dutch government in Bali who was very interested in Balinese Culture and also had written many books about Bali and Lombok. He also worked together with Dr H. Van der Tuuk, who was a historian who gave his land and buildings to be used as this museum. Read more...

Primordial Museum is located at Gilimanuk Village, Jembrana Regency. This museum holds various collections of ancient objects from the pre-historic period, estimated at the iron ages ranged from 600 BC to 800 AD; the items are like a pot, stone jewellery, crock, bronze, jugs, bowls, taxes, the sarcophagus (coffin) and various graves. Here also stored fossils from primordial humans found in Gilimanuk region. The former Jembrana Regency built the museum, in collaboration with the National Archeological Research and Development Center from Jakarta and the Denpasar Archeology Center, then officially opened in 1990. This museum aims to preserve the results of archaeological excavations at Gilimanuk area, which was initiated by Prof. Dr R. P. Soejono in 1963 and continued until a few years ago. Based on the results of this excavation we can conclude that Gilimanuk was once a necropolis area (a settlement or fishing settlement which also became a burial place for a population), which developed during the metal ages, around 2000 years ago, away before influence from India started to arrive in Bali. It turned out there are hundreds of ancient human skeletons (children, men and women) buried, along with other objects like pots, bronze items (plaques, bracelets, rings), wooden bracelets, glass bracelets, and others found in surrounding areas. Another interesting thing successfully found on-site including hundreds of ornate pots (some were plain) are found here together with two large jars arranged stacked on top of each other as graves. Other burial containers (sarcophagi) were also found side by side in an ancient cemetery area. Based on the results of paleoanthropological research, it can be seen that the ancient human Gilimanuk was an Austromelanesoid race with strong influenced of Mongoloid characteristics. The death in this area was generally caused by hypercalcemia, a condition in which the calcium level in blood is above normal Temporomandibular disorder or TMD and bone fragility disorder. It shows that the health conditions of the Gilimanuk population were not good with the average mortality rate at the age of 21-30 years. Here were also found remnants of ancient animals that once lived with around the primordial Gilimanuk fishing community, such as the bones of pigs, dogs, fowls, bats and many others. To give complete pictures of Gilimanuk’s primordial human life, in this museum also displayed numbers of daily equipment replicas of the older days in Bali, such as stone tools from the hunting period and also farming period. Read more...

The RUNA House of Design and Museum is a Jewelry museum of Runi Palar a Bandung silver and jewellery specialist. The museum was opened in December 29th 2001 and named RUNA to include her husband Adrian’s first name. This two stories house museum rooms featured glass cases containing elaborate silver jewellery by Runi. Staffs will allow you to take photos. Visitors can not purchase the jewellery that is displayed in the museum, but they can make an order if they want to have it as a collection. Suppose we look deeper about the collection displayed in this museum. In that case, we could say it is a family museum of design from Runi Palar and her family, which include Adriaan Palar the husband, and her son and daughter Alvin Palar and Xenia Palar. Each designer has its peculiarities. Runi is a jewellery designer. She makes silver jewellery based on inspiration from natural objects that can be found around us, leaves, grass, rocks, the sea is often to be the source of her inspiration. Just like her mother, Xenia daughter of Runi Palar is also a designer; her designs are more modern, dressy and casual. Alvin designed some brooches, with more masculine and manly touch. Meanwhile, Adriaan, with his interior design background, designs more silverware and art objects. Silverware, such as plates and teaspoons, are the result of his designs. One of his artwork that looks unique is a candy box displayed at the centre of the museum room. According to Runi, the candy box is a souvenir given to President Soeharto when he visited Bali on his business trip a long time ago. Read more...

Batur Geopark Museum is located on Jl. Raya Penelokan, Kintamani. This Museum situated on the south slope of Mount Batur presents a variety of information about national and global geopark. The museum building is designed based on the concept of the earth park, which consists of geological, biological, and cultural diversity. Previously this Museum is known as the Museum of Volcano Batur. Batur Geopark Museum was built after the Batur Caldera region was accepted as a member of UNESCO global geopark network (now UGG: UNESCO Global Geoparks) in September 2012. In this Museum we can find many interesting information related to the geology that is showcased in several dioramas, one of the most interesting diorama is about the formation process of Bali Island which has two volcanoes named Mount Batur and Mount Agung. In this diorama explained Bali Island formed from the existence of volcanic activity under the sea more than 23 million years ago in the east of Java. Underneath the earth, there is a hot magma that melted the crust of the earth, known as a hotspot. Then there is deposition under the sea that allegedly came from rock erosion, which was found in the eastern part of Java Island. First, it formed a coral reefs, then it stopped growing and became limestone reefs. Some of these layers were located in the southern part of Bali Island and on the island of Nusa Penida, which is why the south coast of Bali and Nusa Penida are mostly land of limestone. Besides, other dioramas tell about other volcanoes in Bali such as volcano Buyan-Bratan and Batur that did not stop. 30,000 years ago. Mount Buyan-Bratan erupted and released the ignimbrite and lava. This volcanic activity on the island of Bali continued to shifts toward the east along with the movement of Ancient Mount Batur. The eruption that occurred 30,000 years ago was caused the rest of the body of Ancient Mount Agung collapsed, volcanic activity continued to move and shifted to Mount Agung which produced sediment. Mount Agung Lava breaks through the southeastern part and becomes Mount Pawon as a Parasitic Mountain. The last volcanic activity that composed the island of Bali is the Lesong Mountain of Fire. Read more...

Buleleng Museum is one of the historical tourism site that is considered relatively new located nearby Museum Gedong Kertya precisely a few meters to the east, at Jalan Veteran no. 23, still in the puri art sasana cultural area. It was officially opened for public on March 30, 2002. The museum filled with many ancient collections such as statues, sarcophagi, weapons and other relics. The museum was built based on the idea of ​​a culturalist and artist, who determined to preserve the cultural heritage of northern Bali. Because the museum is still fairly new, it needs some development for its rooms and facilities to make the visitors feel more comfortable while visiting this museum. Almost all historical items stored in this museum belong to the family of King Buleleng Ki Gusti Anglurah Panji Sakti and also donations from the next generation of the families. Inside, there is a special chamber for displaying art objects, grouped according to the age and function of the item. Types chambers in this museum are historical chamber, ethnology, prehistoric room, art room and “Panji Sakti” room. Read more...

Museum Agung Bung Karno is located right at the heart of Denpasar City Center, nearby Renon Square. Inside this four-story building house, we will treasure related historicals tracks of Indonesia’s first President, Ir Soekarno ranging from more than thousands of books, speeches and writings that located on the first floor. While on the second floor you will find Bung Karno’s historical relics and artefacts, including his personal belongings such as bicycles, tables, and beds. Next, on the third floor, there are over 40 paintings and hundreds of photos created during the lifetime of Bung Karno, and on the 4th floor, you will find the replica of the house of the Mr President. The museum is run under the auspices of the Bung Karno Library Foundation and was inaugurated by the daughter of Sukarno, Megawati Soekarnoputri. At the opening of the museum, in November 2015, there were more than 1400 books stored in the library building in this museum area. The museum also collects various objects, and heirlooms belong to Bung Karno, and things related to his journey of life from childhood until becoming the president of Indonesia. There is also a collection of paintings and hundreds of historical photographs of Bung Karno. By the existence of this museum, it is expected that the next generation able to recognize the figure of the proclamator and find inspiration from him. One of the most favourite item in the museum is a photo of Megawati Soekarno Putri (the daughter of the Bung Karno and the 5th president of Indonesia) holding her son Prananda Prabowo. Read more...

Located 10 minutes drive away in the southern part of Ubud Palace, Museum Rudana has been opened since 1995; it is owned by Nyoman Rudana, a local politician and art enthusiast. Start at the top floor of this three-story museum, which features works in the traditional Balinese styles. The first and the lower floors display work by well-known Indonesian contemporary artists, including a big display of exquisite wooden sculptures. This museum built With the concept of Tri Hita Karana, he envisioned a building that combines spatial, environment: internal and external covering surrounding residents, which includes everything on the spatial structure: human, management, staff, the museum’s collection and all the factors that support the solid foundation of Museum Rudana. Rudana Museum was inaugurated on December 26, 1995, by President Soeharto. Various paintings and sculptures are exhibited in this museum, artworks by Balinese artists, Indonesia artists and international artists. The arrangement of the artworks in this museum is always strived to reflect spatial values, aesthetic values ​​and harmony with the concept of Balinese philosophy. On the first and second floors, we can find many Indonesian modern paintings made by best national artists such as: Affandi, Basuki Abdullah, Soepono, Dullah, Fadjar Sidik, Abas Alibasah, Roedyat, Kartika Affandi, Nyoman Gunarsa, Made Wianta, Made Budhiana, Wayan Darmika and so on. Classical Balinese paintings are displayed on the third floor, Ubud style paintings, Batuan style paintings by I Gusti Nyoman Lempad, I Gusti Ketut Kobot, Ida Bagus Made, Wayan Bendi, Wayan Jujul and Srihadi Soedarsono. The museum also displays works of international painters who ever lived in Bali, such as Antonio Blanco (Spain), Yuri Gorbachev (Russia), Jafar Islah (Kuwait), and Iyama Tadayuki (Japan). Read more...