Ogoh-Ogoh Museum, Bali, Indonesia
4.5 (21 reviews) Spent Ranking #4 in Mengwi Speciality Museums
Exceptional Museum - Must Visit
Such an outstanding museum. Stories of the Mahabharata, Ramayana, Krishna, Shiva and the rest are retold in doll form - a must visit
Address
No 1, Jalan Ayodya, Indonesia.
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Website
http://www.facebook.com/Museum-Ogoh-Ogoh-Pertama-di-Bali-284236721691433/
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Monday, May 13, 2024, 21:10
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4.5 based on (21 reviews)
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5William S 5:00 PM Jan 2, 2020
Love this Museum!
Ogoh-Ogoh is a wonderful little museum, a store-house really, of beautiful and fantastical creatures. The entry price is low and the staff enjoy talking about the characters represented as well as the parade. Good for kids and adults but it is 30 minutes at most. If you are nearby for the temple do stop in at the museum.
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4PerryWh 5:00 PM Jun 12, 2017
Quite bizarre, but well worth a visit
Some background first... Every March, Bali celebrates their Nyepi festival. As part of the festivities there's an event that is similar, in many ways, to Mardi Gras where effigies, usually from Hindu legends are paraded through the streets. Some of these, in the villages involve single figures that are burnt at the end of the festival. Others are more elaborate - the figures are made by skilled artists and the quality rivals anything you'd see in New Orleans. And, like in New Oleans, there's this place - a museum that you can visit to see the figures for yourself, outside of the festival. But that where the similarity ends unless you think of how Mardi Gras might look on some really bad acid... The figures, as I mentioned, are all drawn from Hindu legend; primarily the Ramayana and Mahabharata. Many are unashamedly MA rated with gods and demons battling it out in fairly graphic scenes. One, that I think is Krishna bursting from the stomach of of the demon Aghasur, is a bit like that famous scene from Alien... All good fun, teenage boys and anyone interested in the legends will love it. Well worth the couple of dollars it costs to pop in when visiting Taman Ayun temple or Mengwi in general.
