Theme Dinner & Lunch

Cocktails, Dinner, Handicrafts and Cultural Performance In Museum

The Museum is a centre for visual and performing arts. It has a permanent exhibition of paintings as well as special temporary exhibitions, hosts cultural workshops, conferences, seminars and training programs, music and painting classes and performances of theatre and dance, and boasts a bookshop, a library and a reading room.
The permanent exhibition of paintings by Balinese, Indonesian and foreign artists includes works from the ARMA Foundation's collection as well as those on loan from the private collection of Mr. and Mrs. Agung Rai. ARMA's permanent collection consists of both traditional and contemporary paintings, and includes:

• Classical Balinese paintings known as kamasan paintings, which are painted on tree bark;
  
• Masterpieces from the famous "painters' village" Batuan, painted during the village's heyday of the 1930's and 1940's;
  
• The only works on Bali by 19th century Javanese artists Raden Saleh, Syarif Bustaman, and German painter Walter Spies who lived in Bali in the 1950s.
  
• Works by Balinese masters such as I Gusti Nyoman Lempad, Ida Bagus Made, Anak Agung Gde Sobrat, and I Gusti Made Deblog.
  
• Foreign artists who lived and worked in Bali such as Willem Gerard Hofker, Rudolf Bonnet, Adrien Jean Le Mayeur de Merpres and Wilem Dooijewaard.
  

Temporary shows by both Indonesian and foreign artists include exhibitions of paintings, textiles, photography, installations and sculpture. The great majority of works included in ARMA's temporary exhibitions are contemporary paintings. The Museum is made up of a series of buildings which, whilst essentially Balinese insofar as local materials have been used wherever possible, are nevertheless somewhat grander and more majestic than the typical Balinese home. The two main buildings, the bale daja (3300 square meters in area) and the bale dauh (1200 square meters) overlook the Museum's expansive gardens, which are punctuated here and there by ponds and fountains, and the whole complex is surrounded by rice paddies. There is an outdoor performance area, known as the Open Stage, which not only functions as a venue for the theatre performances - both Balinese and otherwise - that the Museum hosts, but also hosts outdoor banquets.

Maximum capacity : 100 persons.

Lunch With Villager Party

Guests depart their hotel at approximately 08.30 am, and arrive in the village at approximately 10.00 am. Participants will be welcomed by a traditional Balinese Bleganjur orchestra played by 20 or 25 musicians. Local villagers accompany the participants along the tour walking through the tropical fruits plantation. After the walk a welcome cocktail will be served, and then participants will watch local people demonstrate a range of daily Balinese activities such as rice processing in the traditional manner, making offerings and preparing Balinese food and cakes. Participants may join in the activities, or simply sample the fare while chatting to the local people. A local cocktail will also be served. Guests are then served a Balinese meal in the traditional 'megibung' style, which involves eating with one's fingers from a communal plate for four people, which is meant as a symbol of equality. The meal consists of soup or salad, Balinese food, mixed fruit, coffee or tea. After lunch participants will observe other activities such as a cockfight. The final component of the program is the performance of a Balinese dance.

Maximum capacity : 300 person