The highlight of our first foray out into the Jakarta heat took us to the Wayang Museum of Indonesian (and world) puppetRey, housed in a converted Dutch colonial era church in the Old Town area of the city.
We "just happened" to run into a middle-aged man standing at the ticket counter, "Aldy" by name, who turned out to be a fourth generation Indonesian puppeteer and puppet master himself and whose family collections provided many of the artifacts on display. He was happy to act as our guide to the exhibit and later, together with several others who joined us along the route, invited us to his nearby workshop where he both performed a short puppet show and demonstrated the processes involved in creating a two-dimensional shadow puppet.
Lee, having done his TripAdvisor homework, knew this kind of serendipity was a possibility and knew, too, that Aldy's presence was sure to turn the entire experience from "mediocre" to "fantastic" - which it, in fact, did!
Here are some images of our delightful host and both the three dimensional Indonesian puppets seen directly by the audience and the shadow puppets whose images are projected from behind a screen between the puppeteer and his viewers that he introduced us to during our museum and workshop visits.
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We "just happened" to run into a middle-aged man standing at the ticket counter, "Aldy" by name, who turned out to be a fourth generation Indonesian puppeteer and puppet master himself and whose family collections provided many of the artifacts on display. He was happy to act as our guide to the exhibit and later, together with several others who joined us along the route, invited us to his nearby workshop where he both performed a short puppet show and demonstrated the processes involved in creating a two-dimensional shadow puppet.
Lee, having done his TripAdvisor homework, knew this kind of serendipity was a possibility and knew, too, that Aldy's presence was sure to turn the entire experience from "mediocre" to "fantastic" - which it, in fact, did!
Here are some images of our delightful host and both the three dimensional Indonesian puppets seen directly by the audience and the shadow puppets whose images are projected from behind a screen between the puppeteer and his viewers that he introduced us to during our museum and workshop visits.
AN ALTERNATE GOOGLE PHOTO ALBUM OF THE SAME IMAGES, WAYANG PUPPET MUSEUM, JAKARTA, CAN BE FOUND BY CLICKING ON THE UNDERLINED TITLE.
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