National Museum of Indonesia (Museum Nasional Indonesia)

National Museum of Indonesia (Museum Nasional Indonesia) is also recognized as Elephant Museum (Museum Gajah). It’s called as Elephant Museum (Museum Gajah) because there’s an elephant (Gajah) sculpture made of bronze medal at the front park of the museum. The sculpture was a grant from King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) of Thailand who visited the museum in 1871. Around the sculpture there are cannons which position are facing the National Monument (Monas).

History of National Museum of Indonesia (Museum Nasional Indonesia)
The founding of National Museum of Indonesia (Museum Nasional Indonesia) initiated by the founding of Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen association. The association was founded by the government of Holland colony on 24th April 1978.

At that time, there was an intellectual revolution (the enlightment era) in Europe, wherein people start to develop science thinking. In 1752 in Haarlem, Nedherland, stand a science association (de Hollandshe Maatschappij der Wetenschappen) which urge Dutch people in Batavia (Indonesia) to found the kind of organization, which later on became Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen (BG). Read more...