Museum is an institution that openly serves the needs of the public by collecting, conserving, researching, communicating, and exhibiting real objects to the public for the purpose of study, education, and enjoyment.
Indonesia has various kinds of museums with different characteristics. The existence of museums in Indonesia is very important because they have the responsibility and function to preserve, foster, and develop community culture, both tangible and intangible. Visitors can explore the museums and gain knowledge of what is on display inside.
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Batu Transportation Museum is a transportation museum and modern tourist attraction located in Batu City, East Java. The museum located in an area of 3.8 hectares on the slopes of Mount Panderman, it is have more than 300 collections of traditional to modern transportation types. This museum has won an award as the best museum of private property in the 2017 Cultural Conservation and Museum award by the Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia.
One of the attractions of the Batu Transportation Museum is because the museum is the first transportation museum in Southeast Asia which exhibits more than 300 collections of transportation modes, ranging from non-engineered or traditional modes of transportation such as bicycles or carts to modern modes of transportation that use electric power. The collections of the vehicles that are exhibited in this museum are divided into several zones decorated with themes that represent the time and place where these vehicles are commonly used.
The zoning applied at the Batu Transportation Museum makes this museum attractive to its visitors. One of them is the gangster town & broadway street zone. The collections are set like an American gangster-themed movie, this zone is also the favorite zone for visitors who visit this museum. There is also a special zone for education where the interiors are designed with attractive colors and lighting, and the delivery of information is fun yet informative.
With its attractions, Batu Transportation Museum can be a tourist destination for visitors who are exploring the archipelago of Indonesia, especially in the East Java Province. Let’s plan your trip to Batu Transportation Museum with Nusantoura Travel and explore the archipelago of Indonesia. Click the button below to contact us.
The Bandung Geology Museum which was founded in 1929 is located in the heart of the city of Bandung, West Java Province. The existence of this Geological Museum is closely related to the history of geological and mining investigations in the Indonesia archipelago, begun in the mid-17th century by European people. The Bandung Geological Museum is one of the oldest museums in Indonesia.
The attractions that bring visitors on coming to this museum is the exhibited historical collections, some of them are the fossils of living creatures that have lived during the cretaceous period, such as Homo Erectus fossils, ancient elephant fossils or Stegodon Trigonocephalus to the replicas fossil of the largest and most ferocious carnivorous dinosaur which well known as Tyrannosaurus rex. There is also a collection of mineral rocks in this museum, such as various collections of rocks categorized as igneous rock, sedimentary rock, and metamorphic rock. In general, the Bandung Geology Museum stores around 250,000 mineral rocks as well as 60,000 collections of fossils and other things.
In addition to the exhibited collections that became the attractions of this museum, Bandung Geology Museum also has an interesting presentation of information of the exhibited collections. This is because the collections owned by the museum have educational values of life history and nature conservation. Visitors can learn many things related to natural disasters, the earth, proper use of resources, how to process energy, and many other things.
With its attractions, Bandung Geology Museum can be a tourist destination for visitors who are exploring the archipelago of Indonesia, especially in the West Java Province. Let’s plan your trip to Bandung Geology Museum with Nusantoura Travel and explore the archipelago of Indonesia. Click the button below to contact us.
The Sampoerna Tobacco Museum, also known as the House Of Sampoerna, is located in Surabaya City, East Java Province. This 1.5 hectares museum was once the first cigarette factory owned by the cigarette company named Sampoerna. Then, in 2003 this factory was converted into a museum where visitors can learn about typical Indonesian kinds of tobacco and clove. This art deco style museum which was built around 1862 is included in a preserved historical site in Surabaya.
The collection of tobacco and cloves as well as cigarette production equipment used by the Sampoerna company are the main attractions of this museum. The aroma of tobacco and cloves can be smelled when visitors enter the building of this museum. There is also a replica of a cigarette shop that was first used by the founder of the Sampoerna company to sell basic ingredients and tobacco. The collections related to tobacco exhibited in this museum range from various types of cigarettes, lighters, various cigarette production equipment used by the Sampoerna cigarette company in the early days to various research equipment for cigarette manufacture from the research and development department in the past.
In addition to the attractiveness of the collections exhibited in this museum. House of Sampoerna also has a factory that is large enough to traditionally produce the kretek cigarettes of Sampoerna company with its brand “Dji Sam Soe”, the factory is still operating up until now. Visitors can watch the cigarette making process in one of the factory’s rooms from the stage on the 2nd floor of the main building. In line with the meaning of its brand, visitors can see 234 workers making kretek cigarettes in this room with traditional music in the background.
With its attractions, Sampoerna Tobacco Museum can be a tourist destination for visitors who are exploring the archipelago of Indonesia, especially in the East Java Province. Let’s plan your trip to Sampoerna Tobacco Museum with Nusantoura Travel and explore the archipelago of Indonesia. Click the button below to contact us.
