Sonobudoyo museum, museum of history and culture of Java

Sonobudoyo museum located in the city center, and is located in a strategic location, being in the area of Yogyakarta Cultural Center. Joglo shaped museum building, in the form of architecture as existing mosque in Cirebon Kasepuhan Palace. Sonobudoyo Museum consists of two units. Sonobudoyo Museum Unit I is located on Trikora street No. 6 Yogyakarta, while Unit II was in nDalem Condrokiranan, Wijilan, to the east of the North Square of Yogyakarta Palace.

In nDalem Cokrokiranan, every night, at work, from the hours of 16:00 to 22:00 pm, held shadow play for tourists. This shows a summary of the leather puppet show, usually held all-night, with geber, gamelan, Sinden, and other equipment. As well as the refractive puppet show held in the community.

Number of museum collections roughly 43,000 pieces, and each year continues to increase. Sonobudoyo Museum collection is divided into several rooms.

Pendopo (Hall)

Pendopo, pyramid-shaped building with a roof "tumpang sari", intercropping, two-storied. Pendopo on the building of Java, serves to receive guests. In the south of the hall, there are two cannons, each located on the east side and the west. Cannon collection comes from the reign of Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwana III.

Besides cannons, there are sculptures and reliefs. Here are some collections that are in the hall, courtyard, Dewi Laksmi sculptures, sculptures Mahakala, and Makara. While on the inside of the hall, there is a set of gamelan.

Introduction Room

Above the entrance there is a relief candrasengkala "Blind Ngrasa Esthining Lata". Space measuring 62.5 m2, among others, there is a collection of "pasren" or "krobongan", which consisted of a bed, pillows, bolsters, mattresses, mosquito nets, a pair of statues "Loroblonyo", a pair of lamps "Robyong", and a pair of lights "jlupak".

Prehistoric Room

This space presents relics depicting prehistoric human way of life at that time, include hunting, gathering and rneramu food. At the next level humans began farming is simple, as well as performing rituals associated with religion (belief in ancestral spirits, burial and fertility)

Classical Room, and Islamic Heritage

In the presentation of the collection are grouped into seven elements of universal culture, namely:
1. Community system
2. Language systems
3. Religious systems
4. Art systems
5. Systems Science
6. System Equipment Life
7. Livelihood systems Life

Batik Room

In the this space showcased some collections of batik, the process of batik, ranging from workmanship the pattern until process so a batik.

Wayang Room

This room holds a collection of some types of "wayang", puppet, one of them "wayang klitik" made of wood.

Mask Room

This Room holds a collection of masks. As one of Indonesia's traditional art forms, masks are experiencing developmental history, along with the values of the culture and values of art. Mask that appears in its traditional form has a function as a means of ceremonies and performances.

Central Java Room

In this room exhibiting the famous woodcut of Central Java, namely Jepara, such as "gebyog patang aring". In addition there is a "keris", dagger and other weapons with different types of.

Bali Room

Collection chamber Bali related to Balinese culture both on "yadnya" (ceremony), and the form of painting and sculpture. In another part of the room there is a temple Bentar.

Gold Room

Sonobudoyo Museum is a museum that has a collection of gold artifacts, but for some reason can not be seen by the public, seperti currencies, jewelry, container, weapon, religious symbols, others.