The Blanco Renaissance Museum
Hilltop mansion-museum of a surrealist painter, ringed by squawking macaws and cockatoos.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Blanco Renaissance Museum in Ubud follows the surrealist painter Antonio Blanco from his 1912 birth in Manila through Florida, Hawaii and Cambodia, chasing the trail of Paul Gauguin toward Tahiti, until 1952, when he landed in Bali instead and never left. He fell for a Balinese dancer named Ni Ronji within a year of arriving, and married her; the king of Ubud, taken with Blanco, gave him this hillside above the Campuhan river to build on. Listen for the cockatoos and macaws still shrieking through the garden as you walk.
This audio guide was created using AI.
Similar places
Museum Le Mayeur
Beachfront artist's house of stone and carved wood, filled with impressionist portraits of his dancer wife and muse.
Agung Rai Museum of Art
Private collection of classical to contemporary Balinese paintings in tropical garden pavilions.
Neka Art Museum
Traditional Balinese compound of pavilions holding classical paintings, kris daggers, and a founder's private collection.
Pura Taman Kemuda Saraswati (Water Palace)
Lotus-pond water garden fronting a shrine carved by a nonagenarian sculptor, dedicated to the goddess of learning.
Ubud Palace
Nineteenth-century royal compound rebuilt after a major earthquake, with dense stone carvings and nightly Balinese dance in its courtyard.
Garuda Wisnu Kencana Cultural Park
Towering bronze and copper statue of a Hindu deity riding a mythic bird, above a clifftop park.