Affandi Museum

There are no other museums in Yogyakarta that can be compared with Affandi Museum. It is located on Laksda Adisucipto Street 167. Affandi is an Indonesia painter who was well-known around the world. He passed away in 1990. The Affandi Museum keeps fine artworks of Affandi"s as well as by his distinguished daughter, Kartika Affandi and also some other impressionist painters.

Laksda Adisucipto Street is known as Solo Street because a street that connects Yogyakarta to Solo. This museum on the west of Gajah Wong Street and it is on 3500 ha including the museum and a building which as Affandi"s home. The shape of land is not common and up and down makes an inspiration for Affandi to design a unique building and it"s surrounding. The result is harmony unique architecture designed by Affandi.

Visiting museum of Affandi gives a chance for worth learning from Affandi"s life, his creations when he lived as maestro, and other impressionist painters in it"s galleries, transportation at the past, living home and art room for teaching talented children for painting.

There are 3 galleries in the museum complex, with gallery I as the place for getting entrance ticket. It was opened by Affandi since 1962. Inside the first gallery we"ll find a number of pictures of first Affandi"s creation until he passed away. Most the paintings are sketches and reproduction paintings. In the gallery I, in the corner room we can see a modification of car which looks like a fish, ancient bicycle, and Affandi"s statue with Kartika, his daughter.

Gallery II collects some paintings, from the new corner painters or the senior ones. It has two floors, the first floor is for abstract paintings, and the second floor is for realistic paintings.

Gallery III is a building with banana leaves shaped roof, it has 3 floors and it is multi function. The first floor for a showroom, the second floor is for maintain and repair the picture and the basement is for storing painting collections. Not far from gallery III there is a tower which used for seeing a good view of museum and surroundings, roads, river, trees, etc.