Experts' Choice Award Wayang Museum
What the experts agree on
Home to one of Java's best wayang puppet collections, with intricate leather and wooden figures showing Asia-wide artistic connections—displayed in dusty, atmospheric cabinets that feel wonderfully eerie.
“In complete contrast to the polish and modernity at the Museum Bank Indonesia next door, this banking museum is all but empty, with echoing corridors and stilted mannequins.”
– Lonely Planet
Frommer's "Wayang means "shadow" and refers to the shadow puppetry so popular in Java and Bali." Full review
Lonely Planet "This puppet museum has one of the best collections of wayang (flat wooden puppets) in Java and its dusty cabinets are full of a multitude of intricate, eerie and beautiful characters." Full review
Afar Magazine "Its collection of Javanese wayang puppets and dolls borrowed from China, Malaysia, India, Cambodia and elsewhere shows the fascinating connections within Asia that go back centuries. " Full review
