Le Mayeur and Archaelogical Museum

Le Mayeur Museum

Sanur beach is the most beautiful and attractive recreation for tourist. In the history of “Puputan Badung” (Badung War) on 18 November 1906, it was the anchored harbour of the Dutch troops to attack the King of Badung.

Sanur Beach was proclaimed by a foreign painter, A.T. Le Mayeur. He came to Bali in 1937 because of the beauty of Sanur beach, he then decided to live permanently on this beach by building a place to paint. Le Mayeur married his model girl, named Ni Polok. She was also a dancer who had been famous at that time.

Le Mayeur gallery are full of painting and interesting books which are kept in a building with a Balinese architecture. It was too difficult to get a canvas to paint at that time, so he used traditional cloth made of woven jute to paint. Le Mayeur passed away 1959 in Belgium and his gallery was then given to the Indonesian government as Le Mayeur Museum.

Location

Le Mayeur Museum is located 6 km east of Denpasar, 200 meters to the north of Grand Bali Beach Hotel and it can be reachedby motor bike or public transport from Kreneng terminal.

Archaelogical Museum

500 m north of the junction in Bedulu village, along the road to Tampaksiring, sits the Museum Purbakala. This archaeological museum contains a collection of prehindu artifacts, like stone axes, copper plates, megaliths, bone decorations and more. Some kilometers further north is the Pejeng village with some famous temples; Pura Kebo Edan, Pura Pusering Jagat and Pura Penataran Sasih.