Best places: History museums in Indonesia

😐 The museum is poorly maintained. Need more concern from Indonesian government.

😠 Terrible mismanagement and dilapidated. More of a dim creepy shrine than a museum. Nothing educational, just tons of framed pictures, bad paintings and some moldy artifacts strewn about. I was so sad that there was even ancient Sanskrit writing on palm fronds that the “staff” just handled with bare...

Notable museum featuring exhibits on the life, works & career of Great General Abdul Haris Nasution.

Iconic memorial monument offering a 2-story museum with exhibits on the 1945 Battle of Surabaya.

1928 museum with exhibits ranging from rocks & minerals to invertebrate & vertebrate fossils.

Museum dedicated to the 1955 Bandung Conference of newly-independent African & Asian states.

Grand Dutch colonial administration building dating to the 1920s, now West Java's government house.

Opened in 1999, this history museum features exhibits related to the Indonesian National Awakening.

Museum with exhibits related to the Youth Pledge movement & Indonesian independence.

👍👍 It is the place to. The entrance fee is cheap and you can pay a cheap fee to have a permission to take a photo. Here, you can see the collection of carriage of Kraton Ngayogyakarta and see the details of the carriages. The people (also being the guard of this museum) here are the Abdi Dalem of Krato...

Contemporary national education museum charting prehistoric, colonial & modern learning.

History museum in the building where the Proclamation of Indonesian Independence was drafted.

👍 I went there with friends and her family. She just came from USA and told wanna go to Old City. Then there we were. We went there on Friday and crowded, but it's not so packed like weekends. We bought tickets OTS. They loved to see the buildings design and some histories related to it. In some areas...

Set in an 18th-century building, this museum houses an assortment of exhibits on Jakarta's history.

Colonial fortress-turned-museum with history exhibits on Indonesia's struggle for independence.

Old locomotives are on display at this informative rail museum in a station dating back to 1873.

Symbolic center honoring victims & survivors of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake & tsunami disaster.

Moorish-style, 19th-century palace with antiques like a rare musical instrument & a sultan's throne.

Large museum with collections of antiques & supplies related to the history of national banking.