National Museum of Indonesia

National Museum of Indonesia

The National Museum of Indonesia is located in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, on the west side of Merdeka Square. It serves as an archaeology museum, history museum, ethnography museum, and geography museum, collecting, preserving, and exhibiting the heritage of Indonesia over the past two centuries.

The museum houses a collection of 141,899 items, including 61,600 prehistoric and anthropological artifacts, and over 5,000 archaeological finds from Indonesia and Asia. It is the largest and most comprehensive museum in Indonesia, as well as one of the most outstanding museums in Southeast Asia. The museum consists of two buildings: the Elephant Building and the New Building. The Elephant Building features stone sculptures and boasts the largest collection of Hindu and Buddhist artworks in Indonesia. It also houses jewelry, pottery, anthropological artifacts from various Asian countries, prehistoric items (such as skulls, stone tools, stone axes, menhirs, weapons), bronzeware, textiles, ancient coins, and more. The permanent exhibitions in the New Building include “Man and Environment,” “Knowledge, Technology, and Economy,” “Social Organization and Way of Life,” and “Treasures and Ceramics,” which illustrate the vital relationships between people, environment, society, and technology.

National Museum of Indonesia

Reason to visit: The largest museum in Indonesia

Continent: Asia【Asia】

Country/Region: Indonesia

Province/State: Special Capital Territory of Jakarta

City: Jakarta