Rumah Budaya Sumba — Attraction in East Nusa Tenggara

A museum of Sumba, also a laboratory of Sumba culture in Weetebula, the capital of Southwest Sumba. It has about 1000 of artifacts from around Sumba, including the magnificent hand-woven traditional cloths around Sumba island. It is a big complex with 3 big and tall buildings as the museums and some small guesthouses. It opens at 8 in the morning and closes at 4 in the afternoon for the museum, but opens for 24 hours for the guesthouse.

If you want to do the museum tour, there will be a guide who will accompany and explain about the history and the artifacts of Sumba. No entrance fee for the museum tour, but you can give donations to maintain/preserve it. Their collections are amazing and the guide is very keen to explain everything thoroughly, just like listening to a story. He will answer your questions as well.

One of it business units is the guesthouse. The room is quite spacious, some are dormitory rooms, with bank-beds. You can also conduct a meeting here for about 100-200 packages. They have big restaurant that will serve the guests who stay there. There is also a souvenirs shop near to the restaurant. It sells t-shirts, postcards, traditional cloths, etc.

The environment is so good with green grass and tall trees on the way to the entrance gate. The staffs are helpful...

An area in the northwest of Sumba island which consists of a museum and an accommodation. The main buildings are use for office and museum. There also a chapel. All buildings are build like typical Sumba's architecture with tall and roofed straw.

In my trip to Sumba, I stayed here for a night. The room is not that big, but it was clean, tidy, and comfortable. Breakfast is provided. Their staff is friendly. Overall, I had a good experiences with this place.

Tip: The area is quite far from a restaurant or convenient store, so you'd better request a...

Strongly suggest do not come to stay here unless you are Indonesian!! My friend and I booked the accommodation here for 1 night from Booking.com, but when we arrived, no one was at the reception. And when we finally found someone, they were acting like they didn’t know we were coming. Room was of course not ready. Many mosquitoes around but the room door was opened when they cleaned the room. Staff’s English was so poor that she couldn’t understand anything we said. No restaurants or shops...