Museum Rumah Budaya Tembi, Cultural museum in Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Museum Rumah Budaya Tembi occupies a 3,500-square-metre plot on Jalan Parangtritis Km. 8.4 in Tembi, Sewon, Bantul. Its main building covers 212 square metres, with all structures totalling 1,057 square metres. The complex includes exhibition rooms, a pendopo with a gamelan set, a library, a swimming pool, a restaurant and guest accommodation.
The village name comes from the abdi dalem katemben, palace servants tasked with nursing the children and relatives of the kraton, which gave the settlement its name. A house on Jalan Parangtritis Km. 8.4 became the Lembaga Studi Jawa in 1995. On 31 August 2007 Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X inaugurated Tembi as part of the Gabusan-Manding-Tembi craft village area.
The name Tembi comes from the abdi dalem katemben, palace servants who nursed the children and relatives of the court. The museum's collection includes a celempung with eleven pairs of strings, a 75-centimetre keris naga liman, and two manuscripts: Serat Ringgit Madya Mamenang, written by Ki Atma Cenda and dated 1452 CE, and Serat Babat Tiongkok, copied by Go Sun Hong in the early 20th century.
The site offers more than just the museum, including a restaurant, swimming pool, and rooms to stay overnight. Visitors can spend a full day here with meals and refreshment easily available.
The museum's standout collection, listed in a 2014 Yogyakarta cultural office book, includes a celempung with eleven pairs of strings, a 75-centimetre keris naga liman, and the Serat Ringgit Madya Mamenang, a manuscript by Ki Atma Cenda telling of Pandawa descendants after the Bharatayuda war.
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