Tour this time let's take a look a museums in Jakarta,
Indonesia. Fatahillah Museum.
Fatahillah Museum is the Jakarta Historical
Museum, also known as Batavia Museum, is located in the Old
Town of Jakarta, Indonesia. The building was built in 1710 as
the Stadhuis (city hall) of Batavia. Jakarta History Museum, opened
in 1974, displays objects from the prehistory period of the city region, the
founding of Jayakarta in 1527, and through the Dutch colonization period
from the 16th century until Indonesia’s Independence in 1945.
Fatahillah Museum occupies two long buildings in the old
city area. This museum was formerly the town hall (stadhuis) builded in Batavia
in 1707 by Governor-General Joan van Hoon. This building was completed in 1712.
The architecture of the building like of the 17th century, the classical
Baroque. This Museum has 3 floors with the main roof has a direction of the
wind
The building contains 37 ornate rooms. There are also
some cells located beneath the front portico which were used as dungeons. A
Javanese freedom fighter Prince Diponegoro, who was treacherously arrested, was
imprisoned here in 1830 before being banished to Manado, North
Sulawesi.
This museum has an area of more than 1,300 square
meters. The front yard of Museum you can see few of old trees. You can
also see European style antique furniture from the 17th century. There are also
collections of ceramics, pottery, and stone inscriptions. There are also
various collections of Betawi culture, numismatic, and Becak.
The Jakarta Historical Museum has a collection of around 23,500
objects, some of them inherited from de Oude Bataviasche Museum (now
the Wayang Museum). The collection includes objects from theDutch East
Indies Company, historic maps, paintings, ceramics, furnitures, and
archeological objects from the prehistoric era such as ancient inscriptions and
sword. museum. Jakarta History Museum also contains the richest collection
of Betawi style furnitures from the 17th to the 19th century. The
collections are divided into several rooms such as Prehistoric Jakarta room, Tarumanegara Room, Jayakarta Room, FatahillahRoom, Sultan
Agung Room, and MH Thamrin Room.
To improve the performance and appearance, the Jakarta
History Museum since 1999 determined to make this museum is not just a place to
care for, or exhibit collections from the Batavia, but also must be a better
place for all people of Indonesia and foreign, children, people even for adults
with disabilities to increase their knowledge and experience and can be enjoyed
as a place of recreation. The Jakarta History Museum seeks to provide
information about the history of the city from the begining, since prehistoric
times to the present.
Address of Fatahillah Museum :
Jl. Taman Fatahillah No. 1 West Jakarta, Indonesia
Phon (62-21) 6929101, 6901483
Fax. (62-21) 6902387
email: musejak@indosat.net.id
Jl. Taman Fatahillah No. 1 West Jakarta, Indonesia
Phon (62-21) 6929101, 6901483
Fax. (62-21) 6902387
email: musejak@indosat.net.id