The Huta Bolon Simanindo Museum is a traditional Batak house inherited by King Sidauruk located on the island of Samosir, North Sumatra province. In 1969 this area was opened to the public and converted into an open-air museum consisting of a number of traditional houses and several collections of ancestral relics of the Toba Batak people from Samosir, with Huta Bolon Simanindo as the masterpiece. There are several areas that can be visited in the Huta Bolon Simanindo Museum. Starting with a museum building that stores various cultural relics of the Batak tribe, ranging from traditional clothing, jewelry, cooking utensils, weaving utensils, weaponry, porcelain, typical Bataknese statues and carvings, to ancient manuscripts left by the ancestors of the Batak tribe. The collection is neatly stored and well maintained, so the visitors can get an image of theToba Batak people's life in the past. After exploring the collections of Batak cultural heritage stored in the museum building, visitors can visit a replica of the traditional Batak houses or also called huta bolon. On the roof of the original King Sidauruk family traditional Batak house is decorated with a number of buffalo horns which symbolize the number of generations of the Sidauruk family. In the front area of these traditional batak houses, a tor tor dance performance with a sigale-gale statue is usually held and performed twice a day. The visitors can spectate the beauty of the dance and at the same time witness the 1.5 meter high sigale-gale statue wearing traditional clothes and snaking along with the music that looks like a human dancing. With its attractions, The Huta Bolon Simanindo Museum can be a tourist destination for visitors who are exploring the archipelago of Indonesia, especially in the North Sumatra Province. Let's plan your trip to The Huta Bolon Simanindo Museum with Nusantoura Travel and explore the archipelago of Indonesia. Click the button below to contact us.