Gedong Kirtya

Actually I visited the Buleleng Museum. They're located at the sam location. Gedong Kirthya is museum that collect LONTAR while Buleleng Museum collect the art and tradition of Buleleng. These museum have a beautiful garden. Too bad, some room in the museum are used as office of the Social Service. The collection is quiet complete from the aspect but not a lot of collection. First you can see the car from Mr Gusti Ketut Puja which is the first Governor of Litle Sunda in the colonial era. Beside the museum there also 4 sarcophagus (historical coffin from stone) from the village around Buleleng region. Inside there are photo, art like paint and wayang. Daily live tools from historical era. There also Kapitan Lim saving box. One beautiful paint of I Gusti Panji Sakti founder of Buleleng.

Google asks how was Gedung Kirtya. Hard to say 🤷 the Google maps not only informed us the museum was open and we found it closed, the building was not signed properly on Google maps so we were looking for it for a few minutes. We traveled for over an hour to only see the locked door. No information about opening hours were displayed in any exposed place. Maybe another time.

Fabulous collection of manuscripts. Very kind attentive staff. If you're interested in this type of thing it's well worth the visit.

This is the correct location of Gedung Kirtya and the (very interesting) library. The other "Museum Gedong Kirtya" location about 450 m northeast of here is wrong! Please correct! The library's staff are very helpful explaining old Balinese writing and the technique how the "Lontar" books are made. There is a 5000 Rp fee. The museum Buleleng is just 50 m away.

most interesting library in Bali, Indonesia. Superb collection of palmtree manuscripts. Very helpful staff.

Great museum! A place you must visit. The staff was so knowledgeable showing us and reading the information on a few of the oldest scripts written.

A 'forgotten' museum in North Bali.

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