Panji's Museum

Abstract

The origin of Panji Foklore Stories, a romantic tale between Panji Asmorobangun and Dewi Sekartaji. Panji Stories tells the story about Kadiri Kingdom get rapid developed in the Majapahit times. This story then spread out to various regions, begin from Nusa Tenggara, Bali, almost all Java, and Sumatera region, Kalimantan until to Malay Peninsula, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, and Philippines. Unrealized then at last Panji Stories become the bigger challenging tales in wayang stories, Ramayana and Mahabharata. The Various of Panji Culture expression in the form of oral literature, visual literature, performance art, and values of life. Panji Culture has many variants derived from Java, is properly be packed as a museum. In Tumpang, Malang, East Java, has stood up Panji Museum Inggil Foundation-owned. Statement of the problem in this study is how the museum packing based on Story Panji? This article aims to provide inputs of thematic museum-based Panji Story. Indonesia museums has it own uniqueness, in addition to the large number, evenly spread out in many regions, also has multiform types of collection. But, the essential problem is not solved yet, both from internal or external side, that leading museum has not attracted by the tourists. The strategy of Panji story based museum development that described through this study expresses the importance opportunity of museum management modernization to increasing the museum attractiveness in Indonesia.