Implementation of preservation of batik skills at the Pekalongan Batik Museum

Pekalongan City is known as the city of batik. To this day, batik work still dominates in Pekalongan City. In 2006, Pekalongan City inaugurated the establishment of the Batik Museum. One of its goals is to preserve batik skills in the community. The purpose of this study is to determine how the implementation of batik skills preservation is carried out by the Pekalongan Batik Museum so that the Museum received the title of Best Safeguarding Practices from UNESCO. This research began with determining the topic, then conducted heuristics to obtain written data related to the Pekalongan Batik Museum and its role in preserving batik skills for the community. Next, source criticism and analysis were carried out on the findings of the literature study so that they could be written in the research report. The results of the study show that the Pekalongan Batik Museum has carried out various activities as an effort to preserve batik skills for various levels of society.