Museum of Fine Art and Ceramics
Neoclassical former colonial courthouse displaying Indonesian paintings and ceramics from many eras.
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This guide to the Museum of Fine Art and Ceramics in Jakarta's old town starts with one painting, Hendra Gunawan's Bride and Groom of the Revolution, and a soldier dressed for his own wedding. It turns to the building around it, finished in eighteen seventy as the Dutch colonial court of justice, and to the painter's arrest in December nineteen sixty-five. Best heard in front of the painting itself, inside the old courthouse walls.
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