Museum National Jakarta,Indonesia

National Museum at Jalan Medan Merdeka Barat No. 12, Jakarta Pusat, also known as the Elephant Museum or the Museum Arca. Elephant Museum called because there is a statue of the elephant in the museum yard. When King Chulalongkorn of Siam (Thailand) in 1871 to visit Batavia, he presented a bronze statue of the elephant and then placed in the museum yard. Meanwhile, as the Museum’s statue because the museum displaying many statues of the archipelago.
National Museum of History starting in 1778, when a group of Dutch scientists established institutions of science named Bataviaasch Genotschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen (Batavia Society for Arts and Science). The Institute aims to promote research in the field of arts and sciences, particularly history, archeology, ethnography, and physics, and publish a variety of inventions.

One of the founders, JCM Radermacher, granting a building, a collection of cultural objects and books that became the initial capital of a museum and library. In 1862 the Government of the Netherlands East Indies in Batavia in the Governor General of Reinier de Klerk to build a new museum that not only was the office but also home to store, protect, and display various collections. Museum building was officially opened in 1868 but the birth years calculated since 1778, when the formation of Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen.

After Indonesian independence, on February 29, 1950 Dutch institutions that form the Institute of Culture of Indonesia (Indonesian Culture Council) and submitted to the government’s museum of the Republic of Indonesia. On 17 September 1962 the museum was renamed the Museum Center and May 28, 1979 changed again to the National Museum.

Collection
The National Museum has a collection of various items commonly used in Indonesia society everyday life, or who only used when a particular celebration or ritual. In 2006 the collection reached 140,000 pieces, but only a third that can be shown to the public. The number of collections of many museums that make it the largest and most comprehensive Tanggara Asia in Indonesia.

The National Museum has 10 of the shelf space, ethnography, bronze, prehistoric, ceramics, textiles, currency (numismatic), historical relics, treasures and stone carvings, and geography. Collection among other types of equipment life objects made of stone, animal bones, horns, and shells in prehistoric times. There is also a collection of ceramic objects century CE 5 and 15 from China, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, Persia, and

Europe. Among arcanya collection, there is statue 414 centimeters tall Bhairawa found in Roco Padang, West Sumatra and is expected to come from century 13 to 14 M. Before the National Library building in Jalan Salemba 27, Jakarta Pusat established, Elephant Museum collection includes manuscripts and ancient books. Koeleksi manuscripts and books was now transferred to the National Library. (EGP)

Opening Times:
Tuesday – Sunday from at 8:30 to 14:30 pm;
Friday from 8.30 am – 11.30; o’clock Saturday from 8:30 to 13:30 pm.
Mondays and major holidays closed

Entrance Ticket:
Adult Rp 750; children under the age of 17 years and student Rp 250

Transportation
Trans Jakarta (Busway) Blok M – Kota
Trans Jakarta (Busway) Pulogadung – Harmoni
Patas AC 79, Kampung Rambutan – Kota

Tour various languages:
Indonesian Heritage Society held a tour in different languages for visitors. English language on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 09.30 and on every last Sunday of the month at 10.30. Japanese Language on Tuesday at 10:00 and the first Sunday of each month at 10:00. German every Thursday at 10:00.

The time and date for the tour in Dutch and French can be provided by first calling Indonesian Heritage Society Office at the number (62-21) 381 1551 extension 46.

Prohibition:
During his museum area, visitors are asked not to smoke, eat, and drink. The end is also forbidden to touch the items on display.