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Jakarta History Museum – Virtual Tour

Jakarta History Museum
Jakarta History Museum – Virtual Tour

The Jakarta History Museum is located in the Old Town of Jakarta. The museum’s main building was the old City Hall of Batavia constructed in 1710.

It became the Jakarta History Museum in 1974, and its collection includes objects from the prehistory of the founding of Jayakarta, the Dutch colonization period, and Indonesia’s Independence.

Jakarta History Museum has a collection that includes objects from the Dutch East Indies Company, historic maps, paintings, ceramics, furniture, and archaeological artifacts from the prehistoric era.

The collections are divided into several rooms such as:

  • Prehistoric Jakarta Room
  • Tarumanegara Room
  • Jayakarta Room
  • Fatahillah Room
  • Sultan Agung Room
  • MH Thamrin Room.

Highlights of the Jakarta History Museum

  • Japanese Ceramic pot from the 17th century
  • A stone tablet showing a VOC vessel
  • Betawi-style furniture from the 17th to the 19th century
  • Replica of Tugu Inscription.

Jakarta History Museum

  • Museum:          Jakarta History Museum
  • Indonesian:      Museum Sejarah Jakarta
  • Also:                 Fatahillah Museum or Batavia Museum
  • City:                  Jakarta
  • Country:           Republic of Indonesia
  • Established:      1707
  • Type:                History museum
  • Location:          Jl Taman Fatahillah 1, Jakarta Barat, Jakarta, Indonesia

Jakarta History Museum – Map

Jakarta History Museum – Virtual Tour

Jakarta History Museum – Virtual Tour

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Photo Credits: 1) By Photo Dharma from Sadao, Thailand (001 General View of Museum) [CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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