Explore Bandung

The Grand Mosque of Bandung faces the city's alun-alun, the central square. A mosque has stood here since 1812; the present building, with a main dome 30 metres across and two tall minarets, was completed in 2003, when the mosque became West Java's provincial mosque and the square in front was relaid as a lawn.

The Asian-African Conference Museum occupies Gedung Merdeka on Jalan Asia Afrika, an Art Deco club house of 1926 by Van Galen and C. P. Wolff Schoemaker. In April 1955 the building hosted the Asian-African Conference of 29 newly independent countries; the museum shows photographs, documents and objects from the conference, and its main hall can be seen.

The Geological Museum in Bandung opened in 1929 as the Geologisch Museum of the Dutch East Indies geological survey, in an Art Deco building on Jalan Diponegoro near Gedung Sate. Its halls cover Indonesia's geology, its volcanoes and minerals, and the history of life on Earth, with rocks, minerals and fossils from across the archipelago.

Saung Angklung Udjo is a performance venue, bamboo workshop and school in Padasuka, east Bandung, founded in 1966 by the musician Udjo Ngalagena and his wife Uum Sumiati to keep Sundanese music alive. Its afternoon show in an open bamboo hall presents angklung, puppetry and dance, and the audience is handed angklung to play along.

The Al-Jabbar Grand Mosque is West Java's provincial mosque in Gedebage, in the east of Bandung, opened in December 2022. Its lattice of white ribs and glass forms one large roof without a central dome, flanked by four slender minarets, and it stands in a reservoir on former swampland, which gives it the nickname floating mosque. A museum of Islamic history is in the basement.