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Indonesia beautiful tourism - Puppet Museum is a museum located in the Great North Road Door No. 27, West Jakarta.
The building that looks unique and interesting it has several times experienced reshuffle. At first this building was named De Oude Hollandsche Kerk ("Old Dutch Church") and was first built in 1640.

In 1732 repaired and renamed De Hollandse Nieuwe Kerk (New Church of the Netherlands) until the year 1808 due to destroyed by an earthquake in the same year. Above-ground ruins of this former puppet museum building was built and inaugurated its use as a museum on August 13, 1975. Although the church has been renovated several old and new parts still be seen in this building.

Puppet Museum displaying various types and forms of puppets from all over Indonesia, both made of wood and leather and other materials. Wayang puppet from abroad, there is also here, for example from the People's Republic of China and Cambodia. Until now the Museum of collecting more than 4,000 puppets, made ​​up of shadow puppets, puppet show, shadow boxes, shadow grass, coconut puppets, masks, puppets, wayang beber and gamelan.

Generally dolls that were collected in this museum are the dolls that come from Europe, althoughthere are also are derived from several non -Europeancountries such as Thailand ,Suriname ,China ,Vietnam ,India and Colombia .
Also periodically disenggelarakan also wayang performance in week 2 and to 3 per month.

On 7 November 2003, the UN decided to recognize the puppet Indonesia as a world heritage that should dilestarikan.Indonesia Tourist Paradise.

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