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Museum in Pekalongan is a private museum founded by Yayasan Kadin Indonesia, and was inaugurated by the President of the Republic of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on July 12, 2006. This museum occupies a building owned by the City of Pekalongan Pekalongan is a former City Hall with a land area of ??3675 m2 and building area of 2500 m².

The purpose of establishment Batik Museum in Pekalongan in order to be a place of reference, documentation, collection of batik and batik equipment, literature, data centers and research activities, assessment and education, including technology development and batik are also able to encourage economic activity to further grow and develop. Museum holds special collections of batik cloth. Batik is a textile fabric material with a typical staining pattern in Indonesia by using wax batik as the substance of the color barrier. Batik art is a creation that has its own meaning, which is connected with the traditions, beliefs and sources of community life that developed in Indonesia. Today, batik has become one of Indonesia’s national dress. Even batik has become the hallmark of Indonesian national identity.

Collection of batik cloth from various regions in Indonesia. This type of long cloth and batik sarong with different batik motifs and symbolic meanings of the various areas so that visitors will be easier to get to know batik from various regions in the Batik Museum in Pekalongan without having to visit the area of ??origin.

In addition to these advantages, the museum is located in the middle of the majority community, which until now daily activities related to the business day batik for a living communities living around the museum, including traders of construction materials for batik, batik tool makers, crafters batik, batik traders , observers batik batik to consumers, and museums are also within the school environment that provides local content batik lessons to students.

During this time visitors Batik Museum in Pekalongan come from two groups. First, visitors from among the student / students which consists of students kindergarten / elementary, junior high, high school and university. The second group comes from the general public who come from local, national and international.

Based on data from the Pekalongan Batik Museum visitor visitors who come from the local community has the highest percentage of 31.91%, second is from among students, kindergarten / elementary school with a percentage of 28.53%, third in the junior secondary level students with percentage of 14.06% and the fourth is the high school level students with a percentage of 9.39%, the fifth of a group of visitors from among the national societies with a percentage of 7.41%. Meanwhile, visitors from the University of total amount is very small 1.02% and visitors from foreign countries, has the highest number among the lowest percentage of 0.41%.

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