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| sunobudoyomuseum |
Karsten was the acrhitect of the
building. After collecting several collections of cultural objects from the
Javanese territory, Madura, Baliand Lombok, finally on November 6th
1935, the Sonobudoyo Museum was declared by Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono VIII.
The museum occupied the abandoned Schautan office northem part of the north
square the Jogja Palace.
Sonobudoyo Museum had 42.698
collection that consisted of 10 categories, namely the collection geologika,
biology, ethnography, arkeologika, historika, numismatics, filologika,
keramologi, the fine arts and teknologika. Apart from the showroom as the place
to display collection objects, the Sonobudoyo Museum is also supplemented with
the auditorium, storage the collection, the library, laboratory, preparasi, the
affice and the public’s facilities.
On entering the main hall af the
museum, the eldest building in the museum comples, you will see three sets of
gamelan of the religious Kyai Mendhung (cloud) from the palace of Kasepuhan
Cirebon occupied the west side, while 2 gamelan equipment slendro pelog the
religious Kyai and Nyai Riris Manis (was made in the period of Sri Sultan HB
VI) in Mataram style is in the best east.
Leaving the pendapa or the main
hall through pringgitan, a room in that functioned as introductory space. There is a parsen or krobongan along with the
accessories, as equipment for the worship ceremony of the Goddess Sri or the
Goddess Rice that gave prosperity. In this introductory room houses the Purwa
collection of the letter Puppet, the collection carved Cirebon motive wood, the
big Bell from the Kalasan Temple, miniature the Horse Carriage, and the wooden
mask. This introductory room had a function of introducing various kind
collections, before paying close attention to the ones displayed in the
following showroom.
Leaving the inroductory room, Pre
the History room displays legacy object of the time pre the history that
depicts the way of life as hunting, gathering and foode Islam gathering and
ritual activity of ancient mankind. The next room is classical room where the
Islam displayed. Historical colecction of the legacy of Hindu-Budhha up to the
Islam period, that depicted system society, the language, religion, art,
science, equipment lived and system the livehood are displayed there.
Batik room is on the left of the
Classical Space. It house the collection of batik, production process, the
material, equipment as well as heterogeneous the function of batik that was
supplemented with the picture documentation.
After Batik room, colecction of
puppet awaits you. In this room visitor can see various exclusive puppet which
are not played in the Mahabrata and Ramayana. The puppet can be presented according
to the mission of the peformence.
The mask room becomes the place
to display the colecction of mask. Here visitor can learn that the function of
wooden mask has developed from the ceremony equipment, the peformence or only
fine arts only.
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