Bali Museum is located on the street Meyor Vishnu, in the center of the city of Denpasar. On the north side of the museum is a magnificent building of the famous temple Dzhagatnahta, and right in front of the museum is Puputan Badung Square and the Statue of Katur flour. Statue Katur Flour - a four-faced guard, whose height reaches 5 meters.

The museum was founded in 1910, and the purpose of the museum was to preserve the heritage of Bali's culture of Bali. The initiators of the museum were representatives of the Dutch colonial administration, and the kings of some specific kingdoms and principalities of Bali, as well as architects and other members of the culture. In 1917, the volcano erupted Mount Batur, and the building was destroyed. In 1925 the new building was constructed, but it is used more like an exhibition complex due to the fact that the museum's collection, including historical materials and documents, artifacts and antiques, was not sufficiently complete. In December 1932 the official opening of the Museum of Bali, whose architecture combines elements of the palace and temple architecture, Bali.

The museum's exhibits tell the story of the island of Bali, since prehistoric times. The collection includes bronze statues, among which you can see the statue of the Buddha, objects for religious ceremonies (various masks), objects of ethnographic collection and much more. Among the collection of paintings is the work of unknown artists who painted scenes from the Ramayana mineral paints on rice paper, as well as paintings by famous writers of the twentieth century.