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The Indonesian collection, although geographically belonging to Southwest Asia, is treated separately for two reasons. The first is its significance for the development of the Asia and Pacific Museum, which was originally established as the Nusantra Archipelago Museum focused on the cultures of Indonesia. The second is the collection’s size: it currently comprises 5,500 items, which represents
almost 1/4 of all objects held by the Museum. The largest subsections of the collection are white arms, textiles, theatre puppets and masks, complemented by musical instruments, manuscripts, furniture, ceremonial and everyday objects. The Museum also boasts over 500 contemporary paintings and drawings by such prominent 20th-century artists as Hendra Gunawan, Batara Lubis, or Nyoman Gunarsa. A considerable part of the Indonesian collection was acquired by Andrzej Wawrzyniak, the Museum’s founder and long-standing director. Many of the items were gifts from Polish artists, travellers, diplomats, missionaries, researchers, and other professionals working in Indonesia (Włodzimierz Brzosko, Maria Giedwidź, Waldemar Klimont, Jerzy Markiewicz, Edward Słuczański, Bogdan Staeven), as well as Indonesian artists (Abdul Azis, Nyoman Gunarsa, among others).
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