Museum Fatahillah (Fatahillah Museum)

Fatahillah Museum is located at Jalan Taman Fatahillah No. 2 Jakarta Barat, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Fatahillah Museum is also known as the Museum of Batavia or Jakarta History Museum.
The museum was established with the aim to record historical journey from the Jakarta City since the time of Batavia.

When the Dutch government, the Fatahillah Museum used as City Hall building which is named Staadhuis and the first City Hall building in the City of Batavia, now called the City of Jakarta, the Capital of Indonesia.
This building was built the same as Dam Palace in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
This building consists of a main building and the building has two wings, the east wing and the west wing, plus a companion building that serves as office space, courtroom and a basement used for jail space in the Dutch colonial period. In front of the building there is the field of land, the place of execution hanging. Future, this field of land called the Fatahillah Park.
After Indonesian independence, in 1970 the building underwent a renovation and in 1974, this building was inaugurated by Ali Sadikin as the Governor of Jakarta, with the name Fatahillah Museum. The museum occupies land area of 13 thousand square meters.

Fatahillah Museum Collection
In this museum there are collections of various kinds of historical objects, as objects of cultural heritage of the Betawi people, archaeological objects from the Hindus, Buddhists to Islam, a variety of antique furniture, inscriptions, ceramics and pottery, the VOC era coins, various scales, paintings by Raden Saleh, ancient maps, photographs VOC governor named JP Coen, ancient cannons.

Facilities In Fatahillah Museum
Available library, gift shop, meeting room, cafe, prayer hall.
In front of the museum, there is Fatahillah Park.
Around the museum there are many inns, hotels, guesthouse.

Go To Fatahillah Museum
From " Stasiun Kota" by walking towards the north as far as approximately 300 meters.
Fatahillah Museum can be visited by private vehicle or by public transportation such as taxi transportation, Mikrolet, Bis Patas and Trans Jakarta Bus / Bus Way.

Visiting
Fatahillah Museum opened to visitors, namely:
Open from 09.00 am - 03.00 pm, every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday
Open from 09.00 am - 01.30 pm, every Friday
Open from 09.00 am - 01.00 pm, every Saturday
On Monday and Holidays, the museum was closed to the public.

Fatahillah Museum was the past memories, many memories and a silent witness to many events that happened in the past.

Museum Nasional (National Museum)

The National Museum is located at Jalan Medan Merdeka Barat No.12, Jakarta Pusat, Jakarta, Indonesia.
In 1862, the National Museum was built by the Dutch government, under the leadership of Governor-General JCM Radermacher. In 1868, the National Museum was inaugurated and opened to the public.
As an institution, the museum has been born in 1778, when the formation of associations Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen (BG) by the Dutch government, which is an independent institution, founded for the purpose of promoting research in arts and sciences, especially in the areas of science biology, physics, archeology, literature, ethnology and history, and publishing research results. This institution has a motto “Ten Nutte van het Algemeen” (For the General Public Interest). In response to the formation of this association, then in 1862 this museum was built.

In 1871, King Chulalongkorn from Thailand when visiting the museum to give the gift of a bronze elephant statue to the National Museum and placed in the front yard of the museum, from since then, the National Museum known as the Museum Gajah (Elephant Museum). This museum is sometimes also called Gedung Arca (Statue Building), because in the building saved many statues from different periods.

In 1923, the association Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen granted the title Koninklijk, for his services in the field of scientific and government projects so that his name be Koninklijk Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen.
On January 26, 1950, the Koninklijk Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen changed its name in the Indonesian language to be "Lembaga Kebudayaan Indonesia". This change was made to adjust to the conditions at that time and also to adjust to his new motto, which is “promoting the cultural sciences is worthwhile to increase knowledge about Indonesia islands and surrounding countries”. Then, because of the importance of this museum for the Nation and the State of Indonesia, on September 17, 1962, the management of this museum by Lembaga Kebudayaan Indonesia, submitted to the Government of Indonesia, which later became the Central Museum. In 1979, the Central Museum enhanced its status as the National Museum, according to the Decree of Ministry of Education and Culture.

The National Museum has the most comprehensive collections in Indonesia, in 2006 the collection has more than 140,000 pieces, which consists of 7 kinds of collections, namely the prehistoric, archaeological, ceramics, numismatic-heraldry, history, ethnography and geography.
The National Museum has a large collection of ancient artifacts from all over the archipelago, among others, which include collection is ancient statues, inscriptions, others ancient objects and craft items.
Source of collections were from archaeological excavations, grants from collectors and purchases. In this museum, a collection of ceramics and ethnographic collections are the largest and most comprehensive in the world. This museum is the first and largest museum in Southeast Asia.

Visiting
National Museum opened to visitors:
From 08.00 AM - 04.00 PM on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
From 08.00 AM - 05.00 PM on Saturday and Sunday.
The National Museum is closed to the public every Monday and the Great Day of National / Religious. Especially for Khasanah Emas Room, closed one hour before the museum closing time.