The Sonobudoyo State Museum is a Regional Technical Implementation Unit at the Yogyakarta Special Region Provincial Culture Service, which has the function of managing museum objects that have scientific cultural value, including collection development and cultural educational guidance.
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The Sonobudoyo State Museum is a Regional Technical Implementation Unit at the Yogyakarta Special Region Provincial Culture Service, which has the function of managing museum objects that have scientific cultural value, including collection development and cultural educational guidance.
Performers of Indonesian shadow puppet show sit cross-legged at the front desk, and viewers can see it. There are also many shadow puppet props on display in the museum, which are brightly colored and very realistic.
After seeing the many museums in Jakarta and over-commercial attractions such as Yogyakarta Palace and Water City, I have lost confidence in such a museum. But after visiting, I feel that it is the most conscience of many Yogyakarta attractions. The collection is still very rich, with a variety of exhibits about Java culture. However, like many Jakarta cultural museums, most of them only have Indonesian notes, and there are not many comments. There are not many things to learn after visiting. But it's nice to walk around the air-conditioned museum on a hot day.
The puppets, masks, batik cloth and other collections are very beautiful, sometimes there are special exhibitions, there are shadow handwriting for sale in classes. Transportation: From Yogyakarta Palace, you can walk for about 10 minutes. Opening hours: Mondays and important holidays closed, Fridays 8:00-14:00, the rest of the time 8:00-15:30. The most distinctive thing here is actually that there will be a performance of wow play at night 20:00-22:00. Price: 5,000 Indonesian rupiah tickets during the day, and 20,000 Indonesian rupiah for watching the performance at night. If you want to take a camera in, you will have to pay an additional 3,000 Indonesian rupiah for each camera. The most distinctive drama in Yogyakarta is the wow play, which is similar to the traditional shadow play in China. The drama is mostly based on stories related to heroes in the Indian epics Ramajana and Mahabharata. The whole show was over 2 hours and it was all local language that we couldn't understand, so it was a bit boring to watch for a while, so we got up and filmed the performers. Wow, the performance of the play will use many local instruments, we were curious, and the result was invited to join it, played by the player himself! Very special experience. But when I got up and was ready to leave, Abel had my hand secretly -~. Later, we went to Yogyakarta Palace during the day and also had a performance. When he bought the tickets, he didn’t say anything about the performance, so he said it was a local performance. As a result, we bought the tickets and found that it was a wow play, and the shadow puppets used in the hands were the same as last night. But tickets to Yogyakarta Palace will be cheaper, so everyone can choose one and see.
The musician at the entrance is very interesting, petite body, very invested in the performance, very cute. The most impressive is those shadows and puppets, exaggerated shapes and very ethnic characteristics of shapes and colors. There are also various waxworks, which are very close to the color and pattern. But look closely and see differences in detail, as with our ethnic costumes.