The Fine Art and Ceramic Museum ( is a museum in Jakarta

Jakarta

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, Indonesia

Indonesia

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. The museum is dedicated especially to the display of traditional fine art

Fine art

Fine art or the fine arts encompass art forms developed primarily for aesthetics and/or concept rather than practical application. Art is often a synonym for fine art, as employed in the term "art gallery"....

 and ceramic

Ceramic

A ceramic is an inorganic, nonmetallic solid prepared by the action of heat and subsequent cooling. Ceramic materials may have a crystalline or partly crystalline structure, or may be amorphous...

s of Indonesia.

History

The building of the Fine Art and Ceramic Museum was completed on January 12, 1870, and was used as the Court of Justice . The building was known as Paleis van Justitie. During the Japanese occupation, the building was used by KNIL and later after the independence of Indonesia, was used as the Indonesian military dormitory and as the logistic warehouse. In 1967, the building was used as the West Jakarta

West Jakarta

West Jakarta is a city within Jakarta Special District, Indonesia. It had a p[opulation of 2,278,825 at the 2010 Census; the administrative centre is at Puri Kembangan....

 Mayor Office. In 1974, the building was used as an office for the Jakarta Museum and History Department. The building was officially inaugurated as the Fine Art and Ceramic museum by president Soeharto on August 20, 1976.

Collection

The museum displays the traditional handicraft of Indonesia. The museum also displays paintings by Indonesian painters such as the romanticist painter Raden Saleh

Raden Saleh

Raden Saleh Sjarif Boestaman is one of the best known painters from Indonesia and a pioneer of modern Indonesian art....

 and expressionist painter Affandi

Affandi

Affandi was born in Cirebon, West Java, as the son of R. Koesoema, who was a surveyor at a local sugar factory. Affandi finished his upper secondary school in Jakarta, but he forsook his study for the desire to become an artist. Affandi taught himself how to paint since 1934...

. The paintings are organized by important period in Indonesian fine arts history: The Raden Saleh Era Room (1880-1890), Hindia Jelita Room (1920s), Persagi Room (1930s), Japanese Occupation Period Room (1942-1945), Pendirian Sanggar ("Founding of Art Studio") Room (1945-1950), Birth of Realism Room (1950s), and the Contemporary Art Room (1960s-now).

The museum also displays traditional ceramics from various areas of Indonesia and cotemporary ceramics. There are also ceramic collections from China

China

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, Thailand

Thailand

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, Vietnam

Vietnam

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, Japan

Japan

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, and Europe

Europe

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