Jakarta History 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 the Dutch 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, Fatahillah Room, Sultan Agung Room, and MH Thamrin Room.
The museum also contains a replica of the Tugu Inscription from the age of Great King Purnawarman, which is the evidence that the center of the Kingdom of Tarumanegara was located around the seaport of Tanjung Priok on the coast of Jakarta. There is also a replica of the 16th century map of the Portuguese Padrao Monument, a historical evidence of the ancient Sunda Kelapa Harbor.
In the past, in addition to functioning as Balaikota, the building is also used as a prison. There is a former prison that was under the ground used to throw those who violate the rule of law the Dutch. I wonder, fighter-combatants such as Prince Diponegoro Indonesia, never inhabit this prison. Terrain in front of the Jakarta History Museum building, known as Taman Fatahillah, is a mute witness the hanging execution of the implementation of China's thousands of people involved in the rebellion against the Dutch in 1740 years.
Fatahillah Museum is just one of the langkanya old and historic buildings in the capital, the silent witness to the struggle of the Indonesian people against the Dutch government at that time. Building Museum Fatahillah this, menorehkan many memories for those who lived, and only a drop in the tempo DOELOE. Until now the museum is still visited. Not only by local tourists, but also by foreign tourists, especially European tourists.
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