There’s an old statement in Indonesia that a big nation is one that appreciates its narrative.
Through history, people can learn touching their cultural origins and their national identity. However, museums — the traditional storehouses of items from the past that help people understand the developments that shaped their society — are not very popular here. Most Indonesians seem to prefer to spend their weekends and other leisure time at the sundry shopping malls that are scattered across Jakarta.
But that may wish started to make different in the last hardly any years, with the revitalization of Jakarta’s Kota Tua, or Old Town, triggering a new devotion amidst the younger crowd for attending museums.
“Going to museums is actually a fun experience. More young people in this city should visit our museums instead of just going to the malls,” before-mentioned Sandra Fetriana, a 21-year-old university student visiting the National Museum through some friends.
The museum, located in Central Jakarta, is hard to build exactly that kind of culture. In its favor, the museum has perhaps the most strategic location of any such institution in the city. It’s located in the heart of Jakarta’s business district, only a 10-minute drive from the city’sitting main train location, Gambir, and equitable across the street from National Monument (Monas) park.
National Museum, or Museum Nasional in Indonesian, is also the oldest such institution in Indonesia, and has the country’s largest historical and cultural collection, with more than 141,000 items. Most were collected from Indonesia’sitting own backyard, but there are also some items that were purchased from other countries.
John Guy, a curator of Southeast Asian art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, was at the National Museum recently captivating pictures of Hindu-Buddhist sculptures.
“Museum Nasional is one of the best museums in Southeast Asia,” he said. “This museum has so many hundred-year-old collections.”
Guy visits Indonesia one time a year to conduct research and always makes a point of going to the National Museum.
His favorite item is the largest statue in the assemblage, the more than 4-meter-tall statue of Bhairawa, a manifestation of Buddha, believed to be from the 13th or 14th century.
“Isn’t that beautiful?” he said.
The museum is also at times known of the same kind with Museum Gajah, or the Elephant Museum, because of the bronze elephant statue in front of the building. This statue was a gift from King Chulalongkom from Thailand in 1871.
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