Bali Museum
Bali Museum is located in Major Wisnu street of Denpasar which for its very strategic Location, easy to searched because there are important places and building near by. In the north side there are glorious temple of Jagatnatha, its front is located Puputan Badung Field and also four face statue (Catur Muka Statue ). The development of Bali Museum is early by existence of initiative how vitally are the heritage of Balinese culture at one blow Balinese culture to be taken care of, preserve and maintained. The initiative based on the existence of feeling to worry, that there is symptom a kind of culture erosion, so that the cultural heritage become totally disappeared, lose, what omit only photograph and documentation.
To save the Balinese culture heritage, emerge the founding plan a museum which later become the Bali Museum .
The early planning Bali Museum founding was Governmental functionary of Dutch, Bali King, Society Prominent, all artists like: WFJ Kroon ( assistant of Residen Dutch), a Germany Architect that is Curt Grundler, I Gusti Alit Ngurah (Bestuurder Penegara Badung), I Gusti Bagus Jelantik (King of Karangasem), I Gusti Ketut Djelantik (King of Buleleng), King of Tabanan, and all actists like I Gusti Ketut Kandel, I Gusti Ketut Rai. The Planning happened in year 1910 with the elementary concept the structure of Bali Museum building that was solidarity of the structure between temple building ( sanctum) and Palace (keraton).
After agreed on the concept of the museum building structure, hence founded a mains building which deflect finished in year 1925. Because of the ancient object collection which had been
collected is not yet adequate and then during 7 years (1925-1932), the mains building stood functioned for the exhibition purpose. All meritorious experts in checking object taken as collection of Bali Museum for example: DR.W.F. Stutterheim, G.I. Graider, G.M. Hendrikss, DR.R. Goris, and artist of Walter Spies .
Bali Museum in the beginning handled by an institution that is Bali Museum Institution and opened officially on 8 December 1932 with the name of Bali Museum .
The management hereinafter by institution of Bali Museum has been reverted to Government of Indonesia since 5 January 1966.
The object collections which are kept in Bali Museum can be classified become the prehistoric object collection like: the Grave Petrify (sarkopag), the object collection coming from history era like: stupika clay containing superstitious formula Ye Te, the bronze statues (Hindu and Budha statues) and ethnography object collection like Keris, Endek Cloth, and religious ceremony equipments (Sangku, Cecepan and Sidakarya mask). In its growth, now Bali Museum have been opened generically and become the tourism place, Tourist Object, Tourist Destination, Place to visit in Bali or Place of interest in Bali.
