Sonobudoyo Museum

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 collection of puppets, masks and batik cloth here is very exquisite. Sometimes there will be some special exhibitions, as well as shadow letters for sale. Transportation: Starting from Yogyakarta Palace, you can walk for about 10 minutes. Opening hours: closed on Monday and major holidays, 8:00-14:00 on Friday and 8:00-15:30 on the rest of the day. The most distinctive thing here is that there will be a Woyang opera performance from 20:00 to 22:00 p.m. Price: 5,000 Indonesian guilders for day tickets and 20,000 Indonesian guilders for night performances. If you want to take your camera in to take pictures, you need to pay an additional 3,000 Indonesian shields for each camera. Yogyakarta's most distinctive drama is Wayan Opera, which is similar to traditional Chinese shadow play. Most of the dramas are based on stories about heroes in the Indian epic Ramayana and Mahabharata. The whole show lasted for more than two hours. It was in a local language that we didn't understand, so it would be a bit boring to watch for a while. So we got up to shoot the performers. We were curious that many local instruments were used in the performances of Woyang Opera. As a result, we were invited to join in the performances, and the performers personally took them along with us to play together! ________ Very special experience. But when he got up to leave, Abel stole my hand. Later, we went to the Yogyakarta Palace to perform during the day. When we bought tickets, he didn't say anything about the performance. He said that it was a local performance. As a result, when we bought tickets, we found that it was a Woyang play again, and the shadow players on hand were the same as last night. But the tickets of the Yogyakarta Palace would be cheaper, so we can have a look at it by two choices.

The musicians at the entrance are very interesting, Petite bodies, very devoted performances, very lovely. The most impressive ones are those shadow plays and puppets, exaggerated shapes and very national characteristics of shapes and colors. There are also various batik cloths, roughly looking at the color and patterns are very close, but carefully looking at the differences. Like our minority costumes, the details are different.