Description of the attraction
The Pacifica Museum is an art museum in Nusa Dua, Bali. Nusa Dua used to be a small fishing village. Over time, the village has developed into one of the most expensive and famous resorts in the world.
Nusa Dua in translation sounds like "two lands". The name comes from the location of Nusa Dua - on the two shores of a small peninsula that formed on an impressive coral reef. At the top, there is an observation deck offering stunning views of the surroundings, as well as the Museum of Art.
The museum was founded in 2006. The museum displays a large number of cultural artifacts from the countries of the Pacific region. The idea of creating the museum belongs to a small group of art lovers and antique collectors from France and Indonesia.
The museum's collection contains more than 600 works of art by 200 artists from 25 countries. It is worth noting that among the artists there are natives from the countries of the Pacific region, and Europeans who left their homeland and painted their paintings in this region. The museum's collection includes works by renowned Javanese artist Raden Saleh and Balinese artist Nyoman Gunars. The museum has 11 galleries, each dedicated to a different direction in art: the first - the artists of Indonesia, from the second to the fourth - the Europeans who worked in Indonesia (Italy, Holland, France). Indo-European artists are represented in the fifth room, and temporary exhibitions are held in the sixth. In the seventh hall, artists from Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia are presented to the guests, in the eighth - from Polynesia and Tahiti. In the ninth - artists from Oceania, in the rest of the halls - artists from Japan, China, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines. The collection of the museum also includes ritual masks and costumes, wooden pagan idols.
