Museum National
Of Indonesia
History of National Museum Of Indonesia
National Museum of Indonesia is also recognized as Elephant
Museum. It’s called as Elephant Museum because there’s an elephant sculpture
made of bronze medal at the front park of the museum. The sculpture was a grant
from King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) of Thailand who visited the museum in 1871.
Around the sculpture there are cannons which position are facing the National Museum
. The founding of National Museum of Indonesia initiated by
the founding of Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen association.
The association was founded by the government of Holland colony on 24th April
1978. At that time, there was an intellectual revolution (the enlightment era)
in Europe, wherein people start to develop science thinking. In 1752 in
Haarlem, Nedherland, stand a science association (de Hollandshe Maatschappij der
Wetenschappen) which urge Dutch people in Batavia (Indonesia)
to found the kind of organization, which later on became Bataviaasch
Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen (BG).One of the BG founder is JCM
Radermacher who granted his house and some collections of books and cultural
objects which were very important. Grants from JCM Radermacher are the basis of
the museum and library founding. The increase of collections had caused Holland
government built Museum in 1862 at the location where the current National
Museum of Indonesia stands and it was open officially in 1868. Later on the
Museum became National Museum of Indonesia.
National Museum has completed the new north wing which consist of a
basement and seven levels (floors), four of which host permanent exhibitions,
while other levels is functioned as the Museum's office. The layout of the four
levels is as follows
1. Level
1: Man and Environment
2. Level
2: Knowledge, Technology and Economy
3. Level
3: Social Organization and Settlement Patterns
4. Level
4: Treasures and Ceramics
Collection
National Museum has more than 140,000 collections consist of
prehistoric collection, archeological collection, foreign ceramic collection,
numismatic/heraldic collection, colonial collection, ethnographical and
geographic collection. Archeological collections of National Museum of
Indonesia are in the forms of cultural objects from the era of Hinduism and
Budhaism, which better known as Indonesian classic era. Some of the objects are
statue of Hindu’s Gods and Bhuda. Most of the collections collected at the
Holland colonial era, which was obtained through military and science
expedition, somebody’s grant, consignment and purchasing.
1. ROOM ARCA
On
the inside there is also a national museum garden statue. As the name implies,
this green grassy park filled with statues of various shapes and sizes, as well
as old-fashioned mortar-pestle (Yoni) which are made of stones. One of the
striking in the statue garden statues shaped Nandiswara bovine (cow).
2. ROOM GAMELAN
The special room gamelan musical instruments there are
several kinds of gamelan consists of several regions. a place that is so
interesting to learn history.
3. ROOM of variety of typical Indonesian textiles
Collections are not less good the textile gallery in the
south. A variety of typical Indonesian textiles there. Most are stored in a
glass cabinet, so we only get to see without being able memegangnya.museum also
has a gallery of archeology, prehistoric gallery, various collections of
jewelry, and others are said to amount to more than 140 thousand kinds of
collections.
4. ROOM HOUSE VARIOUS MINIATURE
In addition to the statue, the national museum (which is the
most comprehensive museum in Indonesia) also has a Miniature Space Custom
Homes. In this room we can see the various miniature custom homes in various
parts of Indonesia (from Sabang to Merauke). This is where we can learn and get
to know a variety of traditional houses in various parts of our country. There
was even room Gamelan. As the name implies, this room contains a variety of
gamelan instruments is one of our traditional musical instruments.
5. ROOM OF VARIOUS NEKARA BRONZE
Even various nekara bronze to various collections of ceramics
from various era also complement national museum collections. Everything is
neatly laid out in each room. For a collection of ceramics on display in glass
cabinets so that visitors can see them clearly even without having to hold it.
Of course this meant not to damage the ceramic collections that are hundreds of
years old.Exhibion Hall
6. ROOM OF PURBA
Towards a new building,
tourists began to be treated to a collection of prehistoric relics and
archeology. Prehistory and archeology collections including the National Museum
collection is riveting. In it there are skulls and hominid fossils, ancient human
skeleton in a tomb, the remains of hunting tools and the work of a very old
civilization. Also there are few fossils of ancient animals. However, for the
collection of ancient humans, National Museum collection is fairly interesting.
Inside was a human skull Sangiran, and even there the Flores Man skull
The exhibition hall in National Museum of Indonesia consists
of two parts, exhibition hall in the Gajah (Elephant) Building and the one in
Arca (Statue) Building. Exhibition Hall in the Gajah Building still maintains
the arrangement system as in the colonial era, while the one in Arca Building
is a new building with a thematic arrangement to present the whole aspects
Indonesian people life. Exhibition hall in Arca Building has four levels; level
one presents the human and environment theme level two of scientific,
economical and technological theme; level three of social organization and
thinking pattern theme and level four presents the collections of gold and
foreign ceramic.
