Fatahillah Museum is located at Jalan Taman Fatahillah No. 2 Jakarta Barat, Jakarta, Indonesia.Fatahillah Museum is also known as the Museum of Batavia or Jakarta History Museum.
The museum was established with the aim to record historical journey from the Jakarta City since the time of Batavia.
When the Dutch government, the Fatahillah Museum used as City Hall building which is named Staadhuis and the first City Hall building in the City of Batavia, now called the City of Jakarta, the Capital of Indonesia.
This building was built the same as Dam Palace in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
This building consists of a main building and the building has two wings, the east wing and the west wing, plus a companion building that serves as office space, courtroom and a basement used for jail space in the Dutch colonial period. In front of the building there is the field of land, the place of execution hanging. Future, this field of land called the Fatahillah Park.
After Indonesian independence, in 1970 the building underwent a renovation and in 1974, this building was inaugurated by Ali Sadikin as the Governor of Jakarta, with the name Fatahillah Museum. The museum occupies land area of 13 thousand square meters.
Fatahillah Museum Collection
In this museum there are collections of various kinds of historical objects, as objects of cultural heritage of the Betawi people, archaeological objects from the Hindus, Buddhists to Islam, a variety of antique furniture, inscriptions, ceramics and pottery, the VOC era coins, various scales, paintings by Raden Saleh, ancient maps, photographs VOC governor named JP Coen, ancient cannons.
Facilities In Fatahillah Museum
Available library, gift shop, meeting room, cafe, prayer hall.
In front of the museum, there is Fatahillah Park.
Around the museum there are many inns, hotels, guesthouse.
Go To Fatahillah Museum
From " Stasiun Kota" by walking towards the north as far as approximately 300 meters.
Fatahillah Museum can be visited by private vehicle or by public transportation such as taxi transportation, Mikrolet, Bis Patas and Trans Jakarta Bus / Bus Way.
Visiting
Fatahillah Museum opened to visitors, namely:
Open from 09.00 am - 03.00 pm, every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday
Open from 09.00 am - 01.30 pm, every Friday
Open from 09.00 am - 01.00 pm, every Saturday
On Monday and Holidays, the museum was closed to the public.
Fatahillah Museum was the past memories, many memories and a silent witness to many events that happened in the past.
