This museum keeps 23 collection of carriage, horse ridding equipment, and tack horse. From that amount of the collection, there are 18 carriages that are still used for the royal ceremony tradition. Other than the carriages and its tacks, there is also a horse statue in this place.
The Greatest Carriage of Kyai Garuda Yaksa
One of the unique carriages in this museum is carriage of Kyai Garuda Yaksa. This carriage was made in Netherlands in 1861. Because it’s really sacrificed, there’s always held a ritual of carriage washing once a year in the month of Suro.
Contrary to others carriage, the luxury of this carriage can be seen on its ornament. By the special europeen design, there is a gold crown of about 18K on the top of this carriage.
This crown is usually washed on the special ceremony of the coronation.
For the carriage which is more than a hundreds years old, this carriage of Kyai Garuda Yaksa was highly sophiscated on its era. Once you opened the door, the stairs will automatically stretch out. Could you imagine its sophistication? Is that similar to the plane stairs?
Thus far this carriage of Kyai Garuda Paksa is still used for special ritual of the sultan coronation
Exploring all the part of this Royal Carriage Museum of Yogyakarta will probably make you feel amazed with the ancient atmosphere of Keraton. Other than imagining only about the greatness of this place it would better that you take your time to bring your family or friends here.
To enjoy the beauty of these museum collections, you need only to pay entrance fee of IDR 5000. If you want to take pictures you need to pay additional costs. It is not expensive; it costs only IDR 1000, is that affordable isn’t that?
(source: : inibaru.id)
