Bandung's culture runs deeper than its colonial facades: a UNESCO-listed bamboo orchestra tradition, art schools that produced Indonesia's modernists, and gallery-cafés in Dago hills. Three days of angklung, wayang golek and Sundanese craft.
Nyoman Nuarta's 3-hectare sculpture park in Setraduta, with the studio behind the Garuda Wisnu Kencana monument. Bronze and copper works in indoor galleries plus outdoor trails. Open daily 09:00–17:00; weekday tickets cheaper than weekends.
Sculptor Sunaryo's hillside complex in Dago Atas, opened 1998: three exhibition wings, Bale Tonggoh for emerging artists, and Kopi Selasar terrace overlooking the ravine. Closed Mondays; open Tue–Sun 10:00–17:00.
Sunaryo's stone garden, opened 2015: 135 andesite and basalt boulders arranged as a walk-through meditation on the elements, with a water mirror and a stone bearing his son's ashes. Guided entry only, in small timed groups.
Contemporary gallery and café in Dago Giri designed by Andra Matin's circle: cantilevered glass box over the valley, rotating shows of Indonesian contemporary painting, and an art-book library. Open 10:00–22:00.
Bamboo-music village founded 1966 by Udjo Ngalagena in Padasuka, keeper of the UNESCO-listed angklung tradition. Afternoon show at 15:30 mixes wayang golek, jaipong dance and a mass angklung play-along; workshops run mornings.
Family atelier carving Sundanese rod puppets from albasia wood: heads roughed with a chisel, faces painted with the colour code that marks a refined hero from a coarse ogre. Craftsmen sell direct and explain each character.
West Java's provincial museum in Tegallega, in a joglo-roofed building: Sundanese kris and kujang blades, the Batutulis inscription replica, gamelan degung sets and dioramas of Priangan village ritual. Tue–Sun, closed Mondays.
Bandung's working municipal theatre since 1975, the home stage for sandiwara Sunda, ketoprak and longser folk comedy. Programmes are posted on the street banner outside and tickets sold at the door for a few tens of thousands.
Working batik house run by Komarudin Kudiya, producing Priangan motifs in tulis and cap. Visitors watch wax drawn with canting over cotton, then dye baths and boiling-off; short hands-on sessions bookable in advance.
Peranakan coffee shop trading since 1930 as Chang Chong Se in the old Chinatown lanes off Braga: marble tables, srikaya coconut-jam toast and coffee roasted with butter and maize in the pre-war manner.
Bandung's oldest Chinese temple, built 1885 on Jalan Kelenteng, with red pillars, a courtyard of coiled incense and the Pasar Baru Chinatown lanes around it — herbal shops, gold traders and calligraphy stalls.
Sundanese performing-arts compound with pendopo halls where jaipongan dance, kacapi suling and pencak silat groups rehearse most evenings. Open rehearsals are watchable free; weekend shows are ticketed.