
Jogja, Jogjatrip.com – To back the programs of Visit Museum Year 2010 and Love Museum National Movement made by the government, The Museum Association (Barahmus) of Yogyakarta in cooperation with Yogyakarta Cultural Agency is holding Museum Festival 2010 from September 26th to October 1st 2010. No less than 30 museums in Yogyakarta are planned to support the program.
Vice President of the Barahmus, R.M. Donny Megananda, said that the museum festival is an annual event and that this year’s festival will be opened by a colossal operatic carnival. The carnival, which is going to involve people of Yogyakarta museum community, will be passing through Malioboro Street.
“The Museum Festival 2010 will present the museums’ original collection in public. The collections have their own stories in the history of Indonesia. Our hope is that this event will bring museums closer to people,” he spoke in Kepatihan Complex, Wednesday (8/18).
According to Donny, the museum festival will also include collective exposition of all member museums of Barahmus in Vredeburg Fort. Each museum will have a different program to draw more attention from people. **(Andreas Eko Wahyu S)