Jakarta History Museum (Museum fatahillah)

JAKARTA HISTORY MUSEUM
Location : Jakarta Capital City

The museum located on Fatahillah Square, Jakarta old city. This museum was formerly the City hall and the office of governor General of Dutch Colonial Government. The design of this building same as Dam Palace in Amsterdam. This museum has main building with two wings on the west and east side, with beautiful backyard and has famous place is Underground prison.

The Execution process. Before the execution started, the hostage put on underground prison.

This building was built on March, 30th, 1974 with more than 20.000 collections such as historical furniture, metal, crystal glass, pottery, ceramics, fabric, leather, papers, painting of the Governor general VOC Dutch East Indies from 1902 to 1942 (more than 300 years), baroque style space separator cannon from 18 century, prehistoric instruments, various weapon with the famous one weapon is Meriam Si jagur from Portugal.

Inside one of the room with old furniture from the Dutch Colonial.

I was so much exhausted inside the museum. I come to the room and explore the room one by one, an read the explanation on every collections i visited and i felt so much enthusiasm to see more and more of the museum part. When I saw the inscription inside in Dutch language, i wonder, Oh my Godness, this building is too old. It built on years 1700's and its already 300 years now and the building and collections still stand tall. its brilliant.

The inscription of this museum.

Still exploring inside, i saw many things there, the painting of the 1st Governor VOC, Queen of Dutch, Paint of Cornelis de Houtman, and another painting. Wow... finally i can see their face after just know the story from history lesson at school. It made me more and more happy. Then i saw the inscription room and saw al ot of inscription inside even i can see the famous Inscription (Tugu Inscription). There's alot of collections i saw inside which i cant describe here, but i can say that im really really happy to saw those all. I appreciate and loves my country more and more.

After looking around inside the museum, next we can visit the garden at the back yard. I saw Hermes statue there. I remember that Hermes is one of God in European people story. There's also I saw the famous weapon called Meriam si Jagur with weight 3,5 tones and lenght 3,85 meters. i cant imagine how heavy it was. Its came from Portugal.

Jagur Cannon, one of the master piece collection on Fatahillah Museum.

At the back yard, I also went to the underground prison where's the Dutch colonial placed the person who guilty but i felt afraid and scare inside since the room was dark and also little bit scary because there's myth in Jakarta people that there's ghost inside the prison. nooo...

My journey on History jakarta museum has to be ended after i saw the underground prison, Your trip to jakarta is incomplete withour visiting this museum because this museum is very famous for the the foreigner.
Next step, i went to another museum on Fatahillah Square on Kota Tua (Jakarta Old City).

My Iranian couple tourist

With Mr. Richard baldwin and his friends on Fatahillah museum.