Le Mayeur Museum, Denpasar

great place and architecture but low quality preserved painting and not keen into the story between 50ish Le Mayeur meet Balinese 15ish girl

Road works around the museum so you have to walk along the beach path. Its not really a museum - more like a gallery with some of the early paintings , from 1938 onward. Many of them are very faded but they are a charming part of Balinese history.

I think people are avoiding this place like the plague which is a shame. The buildings and grounds are lovely and have a story to tell. It doesn’t look good for the artwork tho’. It is poorly preserved and presented. The entrance fee is too high. IDR20000 would be enough, and more people would come.

This is the place we can learn about the story of one of great painters in Bali and his loving story with his wife, Ni Pollok. Even though it seemed less maintenance, but the legacy was a worth to visit.

Small, intimate museum about a Belgian-Balinese odd couple whose love story promoted intrigue and outrage (a Belgian artist in his 50s takes a 15 year old Balinese girl to be his lover, and eventually, his wife). Interesting little corner of Balinese history but the artworks are so badly preserved: the 'museum' is actually Le Mayeur and Pollok's home, donated by them after their death, and there is no air conditioning so the paintings have decayed in the sea air.