Exploring Museums in DIY Yogyakarta.

The most famous as well as unique museum of all in DIY Yogyakarta is the museum complex of Sultanate Palace of Yogyakarta or Keraton Ngayogyakarta. In Yogyakarta Palace complex is made of four museums, namely Batik Museum, the Museum of Painting, Crystal Museum, and Museum of Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX. Fourth museum is fused with the other buildings in the keratin and becomes part of the tourist attractions.  

Yogyakarta Palace Museum is really unique and unbeatable because it is located inside the palace complex that there are courtiers keratin, complete Javanese clothes they were good at playing the gamelan. Music playing gamelan which can be watched and enjoyed by visitors every Monday and Thursday.

Batik Museum occupies two unit building. Batik Museum Building Unit 1 contains a collection of fabrics, scarves, semekan, headbands, surjan and lonthong granting of the royal family. Batik collection in this room is dominated by brown color and motif parang. That said, batik parang motif is the motif of the royal family. Batik Parang Barong which is the coronation of the Emperor Hamengkubuwana clothing VIII in 1921 was one of the valuable collections displayed in this room. 

There is also a daily fashion Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX patterned Parang Rusak Cohong and headbands Parang Kestubo. One of the most attention is the motif Kawung Gringsing Box Puppet belongs and works Kray Retno Wilanten Hamengkubuwana VIII (concubine Sultan Hamengkubuwana VIII).

In contrast to the first unit, Unit 2 Batik Museum contains photographs of children and grandchildren of Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX when the wedding ceremony, ceremony mitoni, tedhak Siten, circumcisions and ceremonies droplets. In addition to display photographs in the Museum Unit 2 also displayed batik clothing worn in the photos.

Museum painting in keratin complex also consists of two buildings. In the first building, exhibited paintings genealogy of the kings starting from Lineage I. Hamengkubuwana depicted in the form of a tree with fruit that symbolizes the boy and leaves symbolizing girls.

Valuable museum collection was exhibited at the second building that used to serve as the home of the crown prince. The painting is a portrait of Sultan Hamengkubuwono VII, painted by Raden Saleh in 1868. These paintings are very European. Sultan Hamengkubuwana VI painting featuring the king dressed in Javanese batik parang motif, while the painting of Sultan Hamengkubuwono VII warrior dressed in full.

Goods, such as flower vases, urns, clock, gear sets eat / drink, and lamps made of silver, porcelain and crystal belongs to the king, on display in the Museum of Crystals. These objects are mostly from abroad. The most unique is the collection of ceramic wall clock whose numbers are written in Java letter.

In addition, the life story of Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX enshrined in its own museum which consists of four rooms. The most important collections in the room to-1 is a Charter determination of Soekarno regarding Yogyakarta as part of RI, also mandate that says that the Sultan of Yogyakarta Special Region RI is. In the 2nd room featuring photographs and relics of the Sultan when he was a child. In room 3, displayed photographs and relics of him as warriors, governors and vice-president of Indonesia. Valuable collection for the museum is a painting him as the crowning of Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX complete with all the tools during the coronation ceremony. Stories about the life story of Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX in the museum ends with a photograph at his funeral in 1988 and plans keletakan his tomb in Imogiri (room 4th).