Le Mayeur Museum Bali

Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur de Merpres is a descendant of royalty from Belgium. He was born in Brussels, February 9, 1880, and inherited the art from his parents' blood. Last education is the building engineer at the University Libre, Brussels. Because forbidden developing talent painting, Le Mayeur desperate to leave his family and travel the world.

Le Mayeur arrived in Bali in 1932 through the port city of Singaraja. Shortly thereafter, he went to Denpasar and Sanur Beach began to settle. Initially Le Mayuer planning to travel for eight months, but see the natural beauty and the beauty of Balinese dancers, Le Mayeur conceived to build a house and painting studio on the edge of Sanur Beach. A Legong dancer named Ni Nyoman Pollok who modeled his painting Le Mayeur appealing to propose. They were later married.

The story of the lives of the two artists is actually quite touching. Through marriage with Le Mayeur, Ni Pollok actually want to have children. But the desire was rejected by her husband. The reason, Ni Pollok was painting the model. The beauty of body Ni Pollok feared damaged if pregnancy and childbirth. Couple these artists are not blessed with offspring until the end of his life.

The house and painting studio built by Le Mayeur later dedicated as a museum. Through a will, written in 1957, it was agreed that if the pair Le Mayeur-Ni Pollok had died, the house in Sanur beach will be submitted to the government as a museum.

Feature

Le Mayeur is known as a painter who raised the beauty of natural scenery, cultural expressions, as well as the beauty of Balinese women into the canvas. In the museum, visitors can enjoy the works of paintings and objects of historic relics such as Le Mayeur chairs, carved tables, beds, cabinets, ceramic flower vase, silver utensils, jars, books, and sculpture.

Le Mayeur's paintings to 88 pieces, generally characterized impressionist, and was made between 1921 to 1957. Uniquely, these works are some of them use media other than canvas painting, for example hardboard, plywood, paper, and Bagor or burlap. The media painted burlap, for example, is used by Le Mayeur the Japanese colonial period because of difficulties getting shipments canvas from Belgium.

Location

Le Mayeur Museum is located in the tourist area of ​​Sanur beach, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.

Access

From downtown Denpasar, the trip to the Museum Le Mayeur can be reached by private vehicle or public transportation (minibus). Public transport (minibus) to the Sanur beach area can be accessed via the terminal Kreneng, Denpasar, and will take visitors up to the end of the Hang Tuah. From here, visitors have to go through the path to the location of the museum with a distance of  ± 70 m.

Le Mayeur Museum is open between the hours of 8:00 am to 15:00 pm (Saturday-Thursday), while on Friday between the hours of 8:00 am to 12:30 pm. The museum is closed on national holidays.

Ticket Prices

Ticket prices are distinguished based on several categories. For individual tickets (between 1-9 visitors), adult visitors are charged 2.000 IDR / person and children who are 1.000 IDR / child. For group tickets (minimum 10 people), the adults just pay 1.000 IDR / person and children who are at 500 IDR / child (March 2008).

Accommodation and Other Facilities

After enjoying a dish of artwork in the Museum Le Mayeur, tourists can sample traditional Balinese cuisine at the stalls are located along Sanur Beach. If need lodging, a wide range of accommodation ranging from budget class hotels to five-star hotels are common in this region. To complete the visit, of course, is not complete if you do not buy the various Balinese souvenirs are sold at souvenir stalls around Sanur Beach. Besides its beauty, the price is also quite affordable.