Ngarsopuro Night Market in Solo City

Ngarsopuro Night Market

Ngarsopuro Night Market

Ngarsopuro Night Market held along the city walk Windujenar market area (first Triwindu antic market), Ngarsopuro in front Mangkunegaran. Exactly at  Diponegoro street. 

Ngarsopuro Night Market is a night market in the city of Solo, which can be visited on a Saturday night and Sunday night, the region was once lined electronic shops are less organized.Since 2009, the area was transformed into a very beautiful place and worth visiting. Start children, teenage couples, families and groups who want to fill the weekend with a relaxing and inexpensive. 

Ngarsopuro Night Market, made to accommodate creative merchants in the city of Solo, the shape is just a styled tents opposite. The products marketed are various, ranging from food, various batik, miniature-miniature unique and assorted souvenirs. 

Some products and souvenirs are commonly found here include a variety of Solo souvenirs, clothes, bags, shoes nuanced batik, pins and stickers, unique and interesting. In addition, at the Night Market Ngarsopuro there are also many foods and snacks market is ready to pamper the tongue like rice liwet, Cabuk Rambak, Wedang Ronde, Solo Sausage, Meatball Grill, Sate Kere, etc..Ngarsopuro region became one of the targets that will serve as the icon of Solo. Ngarsopuro a heritage area, it is supported by the palace Mangkunegaran. However, due to its proximity to the city center, the area is also designated as a district trade. 
Over time, this area was given some facilities to support the night market, namely the arrangement of landscape. The pedestrian area this region using block paving with a few patterns, along Diponegoro street  there are some circular bench made of iron, at the bottom of the bench was given spotlights and planted a tree in the middle is quite high. 

On the right and left of the road given the unique ethnic style, there are light poles with carvings and existing homes lamp shaped like a bird cage, the walls in the region mounted paintings by famous artists with quirky themes , to eliminate the impression of monotony even this painting replaced every so often. 
Some point there are also displays masks equipped with strobe lights, themed statues of traditional musical instruments also enliven the landscape along Diponegoro street. With the combination of the concept of the theme of the ancient landscape and added with dim lights coming from the ethnic lights, at night it looks exotic region. 

Night Market Ngarsopuro now become a reference for the new tourism Solo city, and the surrounding communities who stopped in the city of Solo. If we look at the car parking area we can find cars from outside the city of Solo. 
Expected attendance Ngarsopuro Night Market is increasingly advancing Solo city tour and is also able to land a new economy for the people of Solo who wants to try their luck with selling on Ngarsopuro. 
Mayor of Solo, Joko Widodo (Jokowi), said the selection of the name Ngarsopuro Night Market is in English meant that new markets can be global or go international.Kepada reporters, the Mayor said that the use of foreign names that did not mean he did not consistently promote Javanese culture to realize Solo future.

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Radya Pustaka old Museum in Solo Indonesia

Radya Pustaka Museum Solo

Radya Pustaka Museum

 
Ifyou been to Solo, Indonesia, a city full of different cultures, try to stop in Radya Pustaka Museum. Radya Pustaka Museum has a variety of collections consisting of various statues, indigenous heritage, shadow puppets and ancient books.
 
The museum is close to Park Sriwedari, Radya Pustaka Museum is one of the old museum, even the oldest in Indonesia.
 
Radya Pustaka Museum was founded by KRA Sosrodiningrat IV during the reign Pakubuwono IX, precisely in one of the rooms in the palace Kepatihan on October 28, 1890. Then on January 1, 1913 was moved to its current location, at Jalan Slamet Riyadi.
 
Previously, the museum building is home tesebut Busselaar Johannes, a Dutch citizen, was subsequently purchased by His Majesty Sri Pakubowono to serve as a new museum
 
Radya Museum Library are not under the auspices of the Department of Antiquities or the local City Government Tourism Office, in 1951 established a foundation called Yayasan Paheman Radya Pustaka Surakarta.
 
Many historical items the collection Radya Pustaka Museum that provides valuable information, A leading cultural figures, Go Tik Swan also known as KRT. Hardjonagoro, known as the creator of the archipelago motif, also contributed greatly to the development of this museum.
 
If you visit this museum, on the page there is a statue of the poet famous torso, in the Paku Buwana VII, namely Raden Rangga Ngabehi Warsito. While on the inside is a statue torso Sosrodiningrat VI, founder Radya Pustaka Museum. The museum is an old and beautiful building, in the museum foyer there are some of the VOC wheeled cannon from the 17th century and into the 18th. There are also several small cannons belonging Kartasura palace. There are also several statues of Hindu-Buddhist. Among others, there are statues of real Rara Jonggrang is a statue of Goddess Durga. There are also statues of Bodhisattva and Shiva. Statues were found in the vicinity of Surakarta.
 
The objects in the museum collection are in part the gifts from the guests of the state, ie some porcelain gift from Napoleon Bonaparte to His Majesty Sri Paku Buwana IV.
 
Radya Pustaka Museum could be an option for those of you who want to travel to see the city of Solo in the past. The location is easily accessible and adequate transportation options.
 

Embryo Radya Pustaka Museum

 
Activities - activities related to culture, such as Java Literature workshop every Wednesday night on Thursday, with the occupying Antisana Kepatihan. In Kepatihan that, in the Authority Panti stored culture books. This is the forerunner to the library. Radya Library is also active in the field of publishing, for example by publishing Candrawati Sasadara, Candrakarta, and others.
Some courses are organized as courses puppetry (1923 - 1942), a course with a teacher Karawitan Dr. H. Kramer and Dr. Th. Pigeaud. Other events such as exhibition Puppet Making, Carving, Batik.

Filler stuff came from the Palace museum Surakarta, Kepatihan, from the purchase of the GPH Hadiwijaya, other participants and donations.

Leadership Board Radya Pustaka Museum

Historically, as the head of the board consists of RTH Radya Library Djojodiningrat II (1899-1905), R.T.H. Djojonagoro (1905-1914), R.T. Wuryaningrat (1914-1926), G.P.H. Hadiwidjojo (1926 until his death).

Of an association later changed shape as a legal entity Paheman Radya Pustaka a Foundation on Sunday 11 November 1951. The Government of Indonesia in Jakarta also help finance subsidies with museum employees and labor considerations no museum owned by the Indonesian nation is as old as the museum.

Fill Museum

Fiil of Museum Radyapustaka

On the front page there is a museum bust R. Ng. Ranggawarsita. Book by Ranggawarsita and other poets are Yasadipura containing expression philosophy, life guidance, the story of the king, history, literature, and many others gathered at the museum.


 

Gamelan in Radya Pustaka Museum

Devices ancient gamelan, gamelan organ like a piano, a collection of ancient money, the head of an ancient boat, including a giant-headed Rajamala, various types of puppets, various kinds of ancient sculptures of stone and bronze, various types of umbrellas and others on display in the museum. Many prospective graduate thesis collects material from the museum. Even some foreign scholars also learn the Java language, the cultural history of writing material for the museum Radya pustaka.

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Sangiran Museum of Ancient Man 

Sangiran Museum of Ancient Man

 

Sangiran is an archaeological site museum which said person is a complete website in Asia. , The area is about 56 km2, 15 km north of the city of Solo 
This museum is one of the world's centers of human evolution, which depicts the story of human change for over a million years. 

An estimated 80 individuals hominid Homo erectus have been found who lived 1.5 million years ago. The number is still growing because of possible ancient sediments Sangiran fossils buried many people, animals, plants, and rocks as part of a past life. 
Ancient Man Museum in Sangiran SragenSragen is one of regencies in Central Java province, adjacent to the city of Solo, Surakarta residency under the direct border with the province of East Java. Thus, Sragen is a gateway into Central Java from the east.Sragen has an area of ​​941.55 KM 2, with topography as follows: in the midst of the flowing Bengawan Solo River which is the longest river in Java; area is part of the south slope of Mount Lawu; north is part of Kendeng Mountains , and west is an area that is very well known as "Sangiran Dome".
 Regions in the village of Sangiran Museum Krikilan, District Kalijambe. Sangiran region save a lot of fossils from the era pleistocen (+ 2 million years ago). The fossils of these ancient fossils are hominids 65% in Indonesia and 50% worldwide. To date more than 13,685 have been found 2931 fossil fossils in the Museum, the rest is stored in the warehouse.As the world's cultural heritage, this museum has excellent facilities including: the exhibition hall (human fossils, ancient animals), laboratory, warehouse fossils, a slide and a typical souvenir stalls Sangiran.

Sangiran has many features, based on the research of geologists used in ancient times an expanse of ocean. As a result of geological processes and natural disasters Lawu eruption, Mount Merapi, and Merbabu, Sangiran into Mainland. This is evidenced by the layers of soil-forming regions are very different Sangiran soil elsewhere. Each soil was discovered the fossils by type and era. For example, many sea animal fossils found at the bottom of the soil layer, which used to be the sea.Sangiran become one of the most important sites for the development of science, particularly in the fields of anthropology, archeology, bologi, paleontology, geology, and also in the field of tourism. Sangiran existence as one of the early human fossils can not be released study by paleoanthropologist named Gustav Heinrich von Koenigswald in 1934. The first discovery is a type of ancient human fossils Pithecanthropus Erectus or commonly called the human Java. 
There is a pair of giant ivory towered above the entrance gate Sangiran Museum of Ancient Man.Museum which has the motto of the homeland of the java man gives a very comprehensive presentation of information about early human life, from the habitats where they live, the pattern of life in those days, the animals living in ancient times, to the equipment used in the hunting and gathering . The museum also describes the process of the landscape of the Late Pliocene to late Middle Pliestosen or about 2 million years ago.

Four Clusters

Head of Tourism and Culture of Central Java Prasetyo Aribowo states, since 1977 Sangiran site designated as a cultural heritage. In 1996, Sangiran listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site World Heritage (No. 593, WHC-96/Conf.201/21 document). "Sangiran hominid site is not only visited by many local tourists, but also from abroad," he said.According to him, Sangiran is divided into four thematic cluster visits, is 
- Cluster Ngebung (historical discoveries relating to the site)- Bukuran (human evolution)- Dayu (final results)- Krikilan (cluster equipped modern museum public facilities). 
Diorama become the main model Sangiran presentation that has a touch screen and short films, the exhibition contains a collection of information. It also features support facilities as a research institute, laboratory for preservation and conservation, and collection storage. 

A Brief History Regarding Sangiran

History or the history of research in Sangiran stems from reports GHR. Koenigswald who invented a tool flakes of rock material and chalcedony jaspis around the hill Ngebung in 1934 (Koenigswald, 1936). Findings tools flakes that became known by the term 'Sangiran Flakes-industry' is expected to come from the (series) Kabuh-old Upper Middle Pleistocene. However, the results pertanggalan heavily criticized by experts (de Terra, 1943; Heekeren, 1972) because the findings associated with the context is not autochton Fauna Sandpipers (Bartstra and Basoeki, 1984: 1989) or not from the primary deposition (Bemellen, 1949) .Research at the site has become more attractive and sustainable when in 1936 found fossil fragments of the lower jaw (mandible) hominid Homo erectus was followed by the findings of other fossils.After the post Koenigswald or in about the 1960's, research on hominid fossils and paleotologis on this site then taken over by researchers from Indonesia (including T. Jacob and S. Sartono) as well as ongoing until now. The research was 'spectacular' occurs when Puslit Arkenas conduct cooperative research withMuseum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), France through massive excavation for 5 phase (1989 - 1993) on the hill Ngebung produced a number of findings that are 'in situ' and absolute pertanggalan very interesting. Sangiran research is growing rapidly in the past decade five years after the albino Yogya participate directly and conduct research programs are intensive and integrated (Widianto 1997; Jatmiko 2001).If Von Koenigswald in 1934 did not set foot in Sangiran, the early human sites located in the region Sragen and Karanganyar it may never be known. For since the visit Koenigswald, Sangiran name appears in the realm of science as a site of discovery of stone tools.Long before Koenigswald come, Eugene Dubois, the discoverer of ancient human fossils Sandpipers, actually never came Sangiran, 1893. Unfortunately, when it was not interested in Sangiran Dubois, dry and barren. The young doctor had turned his research into Sandpipers, until finally in the village located on the banks of the Bengawan Solo in Madison this region,Dubois found the fossilized femur and ancient human skull. Later findings known as Pithecanthropus Erectus or Si Man Walking Upright.Sangiran started when Von Koenigswald find ancient stone tools in 1934. The findings were then followed by subsequent findings are as endless. Two years after the discovery that for example, a local resident found the lower jaw of early human fossils in layers Pucangan Top in Sangiran, following other fossils in the following years.

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