Thursday, May 26, 2011

NATIONAL / ELEPHANT MUSEUM

ENGLISH/INDONESIA


Elephant Museum has existed since the Dutch era. The museum is located in West Merdeka street Jakarta, and opened to the public since 1868. The name is taken from the museum elephant statue made of bronze elephant from the king of Thailand in 1871. Since September 1962 the name of the elephant museum officially changed to the National museum.
The front page of the museum's Elephant
Museum elephant is the most complete museum in Indonesia, its collection to reach hundreds of thousands of items, but was only about one third that can only be disclosed to the public.
Type collections of the museum elephants are:
- Collection of the history of furniture, guns, glass, ceramics, decorative lamps, pottery, inscriptions and others.
- Collections geography collections include sedimentary rocks, and metamorphic, Various types of maps,
-  navigation equipment such as compasses, chronometers, sextan, etc., along with a few miniature ships,  namely Phinisi, Lete, Nade, and Bali.
- Prehistoric Collection - Collection of numismatic and ceramics - Ethnographic Collections - Archaeology Collection


PUBLIC SERVICE
Home tours - at 10:30, every Tuesday and Thursday, on the second Saturday and last Sunday of each month.
French tours - at 09:30, the third Wednesday of each month.
Japanese tours - at 10:30, every Tuesday, the first Sunday of each month.
Korean tours - at 09:30, the first and third Tuesday of each month. General Information
Days and Hours Visits
The National Museum was opened to visitors from 08.00 until 16.00 on the days Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and from 08.00 until 17.00 on Saturdays and Sundays. The National Museum is closed to the public on Mondays and National Holidays / Religious. To Room Gold Khasanah closed one hour before the museum closing time.
Admission
1. Individual Visitor:
a. Adult: USD 5.000, -
b. Children: Rp 2,000, -
2. Visitors Troupe (minimum 20 people)
a. Adult: USD 3,000, -
b. Children (kindergarten s.d. SMA) Rp 1,000, -
3. Foreign Visitors Rp 10.000, -
Souvenir shop, Food & Beverage
The National Museum provides museum shops such as books, postcards, fabric and others as a memento after a visit to the exhibition spaces, as well as snacks and drinks thirst relief. The shops are open during the day and hour visit museums.
Vehicle Parking
The National Museum provides vehicle parking at the basement 1 and 2 in new building (Building Arca) that can accommodate about 200 vehicles a small / medium, except for buses. For the tour bus can be parked in the courtyard the old building, a maximum of 5 buses. In the backyard while the Museum can also be used and can accommodate about 10 tour buses.
Jalan Merdeka Barat no.12, 10110.
Tel. (021) 3868172, Fax. (021) 3447778,
How To Go There
To get there pibadi can use the vehicle, taxi, bus or city bus way trans jakarta through Western independence, would come down at the stop closest to the national museum, at 07:00 hours until 10:00 am and at 16:30 s / d at 19:00 on the road west independence applicable provisions For private vehicles, your vehicle must berpenumpang at least three people.
Elephant Museum location map. Click image to enlarge

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