Best places: Local history museums in Indonesia

😠 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...

👍👍 No time for love

👍👍 Very good experience to learn more about the Balinese culture and way of life. A guide walls you through the different posts of the exhibition and explains the life, religion, art of living, of local people from birth to death. Very interesting ! Several local people are here to demonstrate how cert...

Historic Dutch cemetery featuring old tombs, statues & a museum with local history exhibits.

👍👍 Candra Naya Building is a cultural heritage building that is quite good and unique. This building is also a historical place. The building which is located on Gajah Mada Street is one of the interesting places in Jakarta to visit.

Displays of regional history, culture & art in a high-ceilinged building with gilded accents.

👍👍 Pitung is known as local hero that has ability to martial so he could save people, physically or even financially from taking from wicked ones. This house is located quite far from Jakarta. But it can be accessed by public transportation. With cheap entrance fee, we can get to know about BETAWI Cu...

👍👍 1976 November 18 we were here via chartered boat visiting various places on Samosir Island. At Ambarita, the two tour guides were telling us that Batak people long ago were once cannibals, and have had the habit of eating people captured from other village. They cutted up human flesh on top of a...

👍👍 If you want to know how scaringly powerful a volcano is, you have to visit The House of Memory. An abandoned house destroyed during the 2010 eruption of Mt. Merapi, this stopover is a typical route for the Lava Tour. It shows the destructive power of pyroclastic flow - from burnt logs, to destroyed...

Historic court building with displays about the independence speech Soekarno made here in 1930.

👍👍 The sultanate one of historical place. Should visit in Ternate 👍

😠 Nothing to see here. People will ask you money if you want to see inside the statue

👍👍 Said to be the first pawnshop in indonesia which was made a museum. The entrance fee was free and it's filled with antiques and interactive multimedia system. The downside is that its small so your travel ends in just a blink of an eye. It has a nice cafe with 3D paintings around the corner.

👍👍 Monpera is an abbreviation of the People Struggle Monument, this is a museum about the struggle of the people of Palembang face the Dutch colonists at that time. Monpera adalah singkatan dari Monumen Perjuangan Rakyat, ini adalah museum mengenai perjuangan rakyat Palembang menghadapi penjajah belan...

👍 Welcome to Village Kampung-Ketupat Breaking point for time scedule Famtrip

19th-century Dutch-style colonial building with a courtyard for community events & entertainment.

👍👍 Good view

👍👍 That was great place to visit when you are at South Kalimantan. I never coming inside just see the outside when i walk from hostel to the college.

Museum dedicated to the history of Jakarta & Indonesia, housed in a Dutch colonial building.