Photos of Museum Nasional

The museum is located on Independence West Street, west of Independence Square in the city center. It was built in 1868 and is the largest and richest museum in Indonesia. The museum is a European-style white building. There is a bronze elephant standing on the stone pier on the lawn in front of the museum, which was donated by King Rama V of Siam when he visited in 1871, so the museum is also called "Elephant Museum" or "Elephant House". The museum has gold and silver ornaments room, bronze ware room, currency room, antiquities exhibition room, prehistoric exhibition room, wood ware exhibition room, folk customs exhibition room, East India Company exhibition room, etc. Ding and Li from the Bronze Age in China 4,000 years ago, ancient Chinese ceramics and coins, the elephant-headed Buddha statue on Java Island, the unique house model in Sumatra, shadow play, puppet show props, etc.