PLACE OF HISTORY

hello everyone is back on my blog, so today I want to discuss about historical places in Indonesia, one of which is the Fatahilla Museum. well, for those of you who are Jakarta people, you must have been there, right. it's really crowded there for example on holidays.

We can still learn about this historical journey and enjoy it until now at the Fatahillah Museum, which is located in the Old City Area, or precisely at Jalan Taman Fatahillah No. 2, West Jakarta. Here you can trace various historical relics of the city of Jakarta since prehistoric times, the heyday of the port of Sunda Kelapa, the colonial era, to the post-independence era.

The Museum building that stands today was originally a City Hall (Stadhuis) which was inaugurated by the Governor General Abraham Van Riebeeck in 1710. The construction of this building itself began in the era of Governor General Jan Pieterszoon Coen, in 1620. The unstable land conditions in Jakarta made the building this had dropped, so that several attempts at restoration were made until the inauguration.

In the next period, this building had undergone several changes in function. This building had functions, among others, as the West Java Provincial Government Office (1925-1942), the Dai Nippon logistics collection office (1942-1945), the headquarters of the West Jakarta City Military Command / Kodim 0503 (1952-1968). It was only in 1968 that the building was officially handed over to the DKI Jakarta Regional Government in 1968 and was inaugurated as the Jakarta History Museum on March 30, 1974 by the Governor of DKI Jakarta, Ali Sadikin.

The museum with the popular name 'Fatahillah Museum' houses 23,500 collections of historical items, both in the form of original and replica objects. This collection comes from the Old Jakarta Museum (Oud Batavia Museum) which was previously located at Jalan Pintu Besar Utara No. 27, which currently houses the Wayang Museum. Among the collections that are important for the public to know are the Ciaruteun Inscription from Tarumanagara, Meriam Si Jagur, the Statue of Dewa Hermes, the prison cell of Untung Suropati (1670) and Pangeran Diponegoro (1830). There are also paintings of the Governor General of the Dutch East Indies VOC from 1602-1942, prehistoric carpentry tools and weapons collections. In addition, there is a collection of antique furniture from the 17th to 19th centuries, a number of ceramics, pottery and inscriptions.

The various collections are exhibited in several rooms, according to the period of origin. Existing exhibition spaces, namely, the Prehistoric Jakarta Room, Tarumanegara Room, Jayakarta Room, Fatahillah Room, Sultan Agung Room and MH Thamrin Room. The division of this room and the arrangement of the existing collections really consider the artistic aspects in the hope that it can function as optimally as possible as a source of information for the community. There are only about 500 collections exhibited to the public, while the rest are stored in a storage room.

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Conclusion: Each building must have such a wide historical value. one of the buildings in Indonesia that holds so many unforgettable historical relics, one of which is the Fatahilla museum which is still standing tall with prehistoric relics.