Sonobudoyo Museum

The Sonobudoyo museum is situated on the northern side of the north square (Alun-alun Utara) of Sultan's Palace. It was built in 1935 with a Javanese architecture. The architecture of the gateway resembles to the entrace of the mosque in Kudus Town especially in the construction of pathway to the auditorium, and the main joglo structure that connected. Kudus is the most ancient town in the island of Java besides Kotagede. Sonobudoyo has the second most complete collection of cultural artefacts after the central museum in Jakarta. Visitor can observe ceramics from the Neolithic age, original eight and ninth century statues and bronze-articles collected form temple in Central Java, various kinds of puppets, masks, and wayang (puppet or shadow-play), to heirlooms and artefacts from Bali. Sonobudoyo museum also has an interesting library that keeps various collections of ancient boojs related to Javanes culture.