The Pawukon Museum presents the Wanua Brata Exhibition and Book Launch, an inclusive dialogue space that brings together the historical records of the village with the futuristic visions of children in the Sayembara Ngramal 2125. A reminder that the future is not just a prediction, but the result of the policies and collective work we plant today.
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The Pawukon Museum presents the Wanua Brata Exhibition and Book Launch on Sunday (01/02/2026). This event is part of a community service programme entitled Widya Bhakti between the Pawukon Museum, Sanggar Watugunung, and Karang Taruna Bhakti Remaja Sidorejo, which seeks to fulfil its role in the community and build a space for imagination about future living spaces. Through Wanua Brata, history and the future come together in one space for dialogue.
The exhibition consists of several sections, including a section showcasing portraits of the past, the Sayembara Ngramal 2125 gallery and other works, as well as the Ruang Ngramal —fortune-telling room. In the past portrait room, visitors are presented with traces of the village in the past. This section serves as a foundation for reflection, displaying the simplicity of residents' homes, village modes of transportation, the evolution of education and village management, local agricultural technology, and the dynamics of the community's economy at that time. This documentation is not merely a dead record, but a silent witness to a village undergoing metamorphosis.
Stepping further into the gallery, we can see the imaginative works of children from the Sayembara Ngramal: My Village 2125. Here, children visualise sophisticated agricultural technology and futuristic economic systems, while still maintaining local wisdom and the beauty of nature.
As written in the Wanua Brata Book, predicting the future is likened to planting wisdom. Through the eyes of children, we see Wanua (village) depicted with nature as its lifeblood, and Brata (journey) manifested in technology that does not function as a substitute for humans, but as a medium that nurtures life. This vision is reinforced by the living testimony of Bapak Riyan, a puppeteer, who shares the story of the village's evolution and valuable advice for future generations in a documentary video.
However, hopes for a better future will not be realised without action in the present. That is why the Pawukon Museum and Sanggar Watugunung are working together to preserve the roots of the past for future generations through cultural classes, as reflected in the Watugunung Art Studio Examination on Sunday (25/01/2026). This series of exhibitions is also enriched with cultural discussions and workshops filled by Desa Budaya institution, the Women Farmers Community, Prima & Preneur institution, the Kompor Seni Community, and the Karang Taruna Desa.
As the culmination of the journey, the exhibition features the Ruang Ngramal. Here, visitors are not merely spectators but are invited to write their own predictions and hopes for the future. Wanua Brata ultimately serves as a reminder that we do not merely look back to determine our direction but also nurture the present so that the hopes we have embedded may be realised.
May this exhibition and the book Wanua Brata enable us to pass on a world where our children and grandchildren not only enjoy technological progress, but also have strong roots that enable them to love their homeland and nurture the breath of life that we all cherish together.
