On the bank of the Gajah Wong River on Laksda Adisucipto Street number 167, in 1953 the painter Affandi designed and constructed a home for himself which also functions as a museum to display his paintings, inaugurated on 15 December 1973.

His house complex is consist of his private house on stilts, a gallery with his retrospective works, a gifted gallery from the former president Soeharto in which exhibit his sketches and archives of his voyages throughout india, Europe, North America and South America, a three level Building consists of a family and publicly open for rent gallery, a restoration studios, and a basement storage, a semi-open space for public area and a painting Studio for visitors.

The high air humidity and temperature are causing concerns about the condition of the paintings.

[2] Before dying, Affandi spent a lot of time sitting around in his own museum, observing his paintings.

He is now buried in the museum complex, as he wished to always be surrounded by his family and his works.