Bali Cultural Park

bali art centreBali Cultural Park is a vast complex of buildings with the best style of traditional Balinese architecture. Buildings Lay-out, both amphitheater and place / performance space and an additional building symbolizes the story of Mount Mandara Giri circled in the ocean of milk where splashing “Amerta” holy water according to eternal life with the dynamic nature of culture and continued to live throughout the human habit in this planet. In the amphitheater can accommodate 6000 spectators to the colossal performances both traditional and modern. Cultural Park complex was opened in 1973 and developed Arts Festival (Bali Art Festival), held a full month every year marked the entertainment of traditional dances, handicraft exhibitions and other cultural activities. In the event there are also commercial activities. At rang the opening ceremony parade of art begins from the Puputan park and over in the Cultural Park.

The distance is more or less about two kilometers. Parade is followed by all districts and cities in Bali by sending their artistic mission. It is often followed by other provinces in Indonesia and also from abroad such as Japan and Korea. These arts parades in the show are in various forms, i.e. from the sacred, traditional to contemporary. Also kinds of bridal and traditional clothing of each region, instrument or gamelan music and forms of offerings, new creations in various fields of art and others.

Surely this event is not a “tourist-event”. Visitors and spectators more corpulent of the Balinese, but tourists are allowed to be witnessed. The goal is noble departed from the idea of Prof. Ida Bagus Mantra (he served during the Governor) to develop and stimulate the creativity of art from artists in Bali to continue supporting the development of cultural dynamics and can remain active and maintain the identity of feature in the middle swift global influence brought by tourists.

If you are planning to go to Bali and drive your car rental by self, it is better to drive your car away from this place. Because it will be very bussy when the festival held.

Bali museum

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Bali museum located at Mayor Wisnu Street Denpasar, Bali. It is really easy to find this place because there are a lot of important place around it. On the west side of this place there is a temple called Jagatnatha temple and Lapangan Puputan Badung in front of it.

Bali Museum built, because Balinese people know how important cultural diversity and tradition in Bali should be guarded. This is based, because of feeling worried about symptoms such erosion of culture so that cultural heritage has become extinct and disappear. To save the heritage of Bali came idea to build a museum of Bali.

Plan to build the museum is the idea of the Netherlands, the kings of Bali, community leaders, artists, among others: WFJ Kroon (Netherlands Resident Assistant), a German architect is Curt Grundler, I Gusti Ngurah Alit (Bestuurder Penegara Badung), I Gusti Good Jelantik (King of Karangasem), I Gusti Ketut Djelantik (King of Buleleng), King of Tabanan, and artists such as I Gusti Ketut Kandel, I Gusti Ketut Rai. The plan occurred in 1910 with the concept of basic structure of Balinese temple building blend with the temple town.

Once agreed the concept of structure of the building then the main building completed in 1925. Because the objects collection  that collected owned or deemed inadequate then for about 7 years (years 1925 – 1932) the main building was used as a place to work occasional exhibitions. Meritorious experts in examining the things that made Bali museum collections, among others: DR.WF Stutterheim, G.I. Graders, G / M. Hendrikss, DR.R.Goris and painter Walter Spies.

Museum Bali, initially managed by a foundation called Bali Museum Foundation and was opened officially on 8 December 1932 with the name of Bali Museum. Museum Bali Foundation then submitted the museum management to the Indonesian government on 5 January 1996. collection of tools and equipment stored in the museum Bali clarified become a prehistoric collection such as stone tomb (sarcophagus), Stupak clay containing a mantras, bronze sculpture statue Hindus, Buddhist and objects such as collections of ethnography Keris, Endek fabrics and religious equipment, ceremonial and sidakarya masks.

To get in to the museum, you just need IDR3000. Our driver can take you to this place with our best car rental.

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