Travel and Tourism

Batik Museum lies on 3 Jetayu Street, Pekalongan city, on the city square area, about 2 hour drive from Semarang, the capital city of Central Java Province to west or to Jakarta.

This museum makes use of the building used to be for the Dutch Government Treasurer in Pekalongan during the first part of XIX Century. The room that ever used for money saving is still exist and can be seen by museum visitors on request. Batik Museum in Pekalongan city can be seen as a realization of Indonesian eagerness to contribute a centre of cultural and economic activities in order to reach an international level in term of cultural diversity on one side and to give local people a lot of benefits in terms of economic value on the other side.

Being officially opened by Mr President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, on 12th of July 2006 it has 300 collections of various patterned batik cloths contributed by people all over Indonesia. These collections are displayed in two exhibition rooms: the T exhibition room displaying  batik Pekalongan patterned batik cloths and north coastal patterned batik cloths, and the L exhibition room displaying Nusantara batik cloths taken from other areas in Indonesia.

This museum is also completed with an administration room, a storage and conservation room, a meeting room and a Batik Art Shop where visitors can buy various kinds of souvenirs made of batik. There will be a library, and an information and data room in future.

Further information on Batik Museum in Pekalongan city can be seen in www.museumbatikpekalongan.dprin.go.id. Any contact to this museum can be got through by phone/fax 62 285 431698 or an email to museumbatik@dprin.go.id