February 4 & 5: Asian New Year

Asian New Year Celebration

This February 4th & 5th opening has special events to introduce this Bali Kite Exhibit. The exhibit lasts until March 25.

Special Opening Events

At night during the festival the families are entertained by shadow puppet shows. These two opening days the Paper Eclipse Puppet Company will present a special show about bats. Fruit bats, bat kites, and bats as good luck are native to Bali. This show about the only mammal that flies will include amazing information and a healthy dose of humor for all ages.

Times: 11 am, 1:30 pm, 3:00 pm
Both Saturday & Sunday

Kite Making

Everyone can make a simple kite of everyday materials, which has delighted Southeast Asians for thousands of years. You can decorate them and if the winds are right, fly them in the Museum’s front yard.

The Bali International Kite Festival

Imagine 209 teams of a dozen or more members, most with their own gamelan orchestras, with no team allowed to compete with a kite less than 132 “ wide. Put them together in rice fields or beaches larger than football fields to be judged and you have the July Lomba Layang-Layang Internasional Bali.

To accompany the large kites there will be enlarged photos of them being transported to the flying fields, kite launching and flying. Signage will explain things in detail.

Videos of using kites both to catch bats and fish will be showing regularly.

Your admission includes seeing the whole museum.