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NATIONAL MUSEUM
Jl. Merdeka Barat no 12, Jakarta.
Tel: 021 386 8172
Indonesian Heritage Society Office : 021 381 1551 x46
Email: museumnasional@indo.com
Website: www.museumnasional.org
Starting as a small part of the Ciliwung River, the 477 years old Jakarta must have a lot of things to tell. The long history of 65,000 hectare land are lefts us foot prints which denied to vanish with time. And those who withstand have a purpose, whatever it is they deserve for a visit. Here are some venue which preserve the history and culture of Jakarta and even Indonesia, to known, to learn and to love as the derivation of our now civilization.
This elegant and well-managed museum shows a very wide variety of objects came from Indonesian daily lives that are used in ceremonies and rituals. In front of the building bronze an elephant statue, that’s why the museum is popularity called Museum Gajah (Elephant Museum). Consist of nine rooms (Ethnography, Bronze, Prehistory, Ceramics, Textile, Numismatics, Historical Relics, Stone Sculpture and Treasure).
Museum Nasional now houses over 100,000 cultural objects. The arrays of rooms is very prim, its allowed you to see everything by walking clockwise or anti-clockwise, depend which one you want to see first, turn left for Treasure room or turn right for Ethnography Collections.
Every room showing a very specific collection which every one of them is a journey to another dimension, never skip any. For example, in Prehistory room visitors can get the explanation of prehistoric civilizations trough the fossil and artifacts. In treasure rooms there are collection of imperial gold which are crafted from 14 – 24 carat gold and silver and many adorned with precious stones.
While The Stone sculpture collection is one of the highlights of the museum with an impressive amount of items in many form and sizes, the statues are influenced by the Budhist and Hindu time period. Along with the amazing collection, visitors can get proper information from the Museum, and The Indonesian Heritage Society also provide tours of the Museum in many languages, including English, Japan, Dutch, German and French. Want to have one of those collections? Of course you can’t, but at least Museum Shop can be the alternative. Here visitors can buy variety of textile products like table cloths and shawls, books on Indonesia, ethnic handicrafts, replicas like statues made of bronze, stone and clay as well as ethnic symbols like wayang kulit (leather puppets), wayang golek (wooden puppets) temples and monuments. The Museum is open from 8.30am – 2.30pm (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurday and Sunday), 8.30 am – 11.30 am (Friday) and 8.30 am – 1.30 pm (Saturday), the museum is closed on Monday.
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