National Awakening Museum is a building that was built as a monument of birth and the development of national consciousness and also the discovery of the first modern movement organization under the name Boedi Oetomo. Before becoming a museum , this building is a former medical school founded by the Netherlands under the name STOVIA abbreviated STOVIA or Medical school Bumiputera On the way, the building always switches function. The location of the museum is not far from Senen Market, exactly on Abdurrahman Saleh Road No.26, before RSPAD Gatot Subroto, Central Jakarta.

Previously STOVIA was a physician school still developing under the name of The Java Doctor School which was founded in 1851 at Weltevreeden Military Hospital or what is now called Gatot Soebroto Army of Central Hospital. All of the campus faculty staff are from the same hospital physician. The teaching and learning activities were then moved alongside the military hospital on the initiative of HF rool the director until successfully completed on 1 March 1902. Due to rapid development, STOVIA moved from Kwini Senen area to Salemba which is now Faculty of Medicine University of Indonesia. The campus, which is located in Kwini since 1926, has been converted into a MULO educational place , at the Junior High and AMS evel, at the senior high school level.

Then, when Japan arrived in 1942-1954, the first building functioned as a prisoner of Ducth troops against Japan. Continued into the Indonesia independence period 1945 - 1973 the building was inhabited by families of Dutch and Ambonese soldiers.

Because of its high historical value, related to the birth of Boedi Oetomo on May 20, 1908, in 1948 was designated as the day of National Awakening. In addition, this building is also a witness of the birth of organizations of national movement, namely Boedi Oetomo, Trikoro Dharmo (Jong Java), Jong Minahasa, and Jong Ambon. As well as in this building are also some movement figures such as Ki Hadjar Dewantara , Tjipto Mangoenkoesoemo, and R. Soetomo never gain knowledge. Therefore, in 1973 the government of DKI Jakarta Provice restored the and on May 20, 1974 together with President Suharto , was inaugurated as the National Awakening Building.

Unfinished, the rectangular building complex is made up of four museums, namely Budy Utomo of Museun , Museum of Women, Museum of Press and Museum of Healthy until finally on February 7, 1984 became the Museum of National Awakening. While the family from Ambon who lived in the place was moved to housing Cengkareng Jakarta. The museum is also designated as a Heritage Object. So the consequences of this building should be preserved, maintained, and should not be overhauled.