For the “A” New Museum of Indonesian Batik, Ivan Saputra was the architect winner of the Museum Design Competition
in 2013. Preparation for the competition required architectural design guidelines, which were an important part of the terms of
reference for the project. This paper aims to provide an overview of the issues surrounding the work involved in the collaboration
work between the Indonesian government and multi-disciplinary participants to establish museum design guidelines for this
competition. By articulating and elaborating the characteristics of several famous museums design in the world, by defining relevant
architectural theories, and by exploring an in-depth analysis of “batik”, which UNESCO designated as Intangible Heritage of
Humanity of UNESCO in 2009, the architectural design guidelines were developed based onfindings revealedby inserting “batik”
itself as the museum storyline into contemporary architecture. By referring to trans-disciplinary methods and concepts, then the
process of batik making is potentially a kind of architectural “showing off” to expose the uniqueness of Indonesian batik as well as
the Architecture-Event theory promoted by French philosopher Jacques Derrida.