Museum Bahari Jakarta — Attraction in Jakarta

The forerunner of the Jakarta Maritime Museum started in the Dutch colonial era. It was built for storage of key commodities such as spices, coffee, tin and copper in 1652. The building of the Museum is fairly strong in its era known to be able to withstand tropical storms. After the Dutch were successfully expelled from Sunda Kelapa, the museum building was transformed into a logistics warehouse for the Japanese army. After Indonesia's independence, the Museum building was once used as a warehouse for the needs of the National Electric Company. In 1976 the Indonesian government agreed to overhaul all building buildings into cultural heritage. Just one year apart, this building was then inaugurated as the Indonesian Maritime Museum precisely on July 7, 1977.

Like other famous museums around the world, the Jakarta Maritime Museum has quite a large collection. Not only exhibiting miniature forms, but also the original shape is also displayed to be a historical fact. Inside this museum there are folklore and poems often sung by archipelago fishermen at that time. The most interesting thing about this antique museum is the display of various sailing boat models along with other boat equipment. You can also see navigation tools that are still complete with compasses, binoculars and anchor ships at that time and continue to be preserved. There are also miniature lighthouses accompanied by islands or trade routes that once colored Sunda Kelapa. You are not allowed to damage the items in this museum. In addition to 19 original and replica boats, visitors can also see exhibitions of TNI AL, cartography collections, and there is also a collection of Onrust island models. Inside this museum there are at most paintings, photographs and all kinds of boat shapes. There are many things that you can see here although some of them have been damaged due to fire incidents. After visiting the room of the miniature collection of the Indonesian Navy's collection, the most historic parts are the defense of the National maritime empire to the invaders. The invaders in the maritime sector were big kingdoms in Indonesia, including the kingdom of Samudera Pasai and Sriwijaya. Besides being able to see the equipment used for sailing, visitors can also see the maritime weaponry tools. There is also the weaponry of the Sunda Kelapa fighters and maritime royal warriors in this museum. Seeing a complete collection of cannons and traditional weapons here, it's clear how prosperous Sunda Kelapa at that time. All interesting informations about Indonesia maritime...

Just spent a splendid new year's eve here in the museum organized by the museum all together with those history enthusiasts: watching from documentary to some old historical movies, enjoying a guided night tour at the museum, enjoying the fireworks from the top of the hisyorical lining tower of Syahbandar and last but not least having grilled fish together with all participants. It's probably the best new year's eve I have ever had.

Well, anyway, the museum is newly renovated however we can still feel the colonial ambiance as the building was built in 18 century. It is now very clean. We can walk comfortably. 1 Lining tower of Syahbandar (Menara Syahbandae) and 3 main buldings with more over 20 rooms depicting from the history of Maritime, the maritime heroes to the local legends are now more organized and more fun to see.

It may be the only museum in town which opens everyday from 8am-4.30pm as most of the museums close on Monday.

Admission fee: Individual visitor is only IDR 5000 (adult) & IDR 2000 (Children/Student) Group (over 30 pax) -- IDR 3750 (adult) & IDR 1500 (children/student)

Very very cheap! There's no museum in the world with such a low admission fee.

A guided tour is also available. IDR 40.000 for Bahasa Indonesia (guided by inhouse guide) and IDR 75.000 for foreign languages (guided by outsource guides who standby in front of the main gate).

Jakarta Maritime Museum (Musem Bahari) is only 10-15 minute walk from the old town main square, Taman Fatahillah (Fatahillah Square).

It's worth to visit.

Ayo mari kita ke Museum Bahari Jakarta. Setelah direnovasi sekarang fisik bangunan museum yang hanya berjarak 10-15 nenit berjalan kaki daei Taman Fatahilah ini tampak terlihat lebih fresh, kokoh, dan bersih. Tentunya atmosfir kolonialnya semakin terasa. Serasa ada di Eropa.

Ruangan-ruangan sekarang lebih menarik dengan koleksi diorama yang jauh lebih hidup. Menampilkan serangkaian sejarah kebaharian Nusantara hingga legenda bahari Indonesia yang dilengkapi dengan buku penjelasan yang dapat dibaca. Bahkan sistem digitalpum sudah diaplikasikan untuk membuat pengungunjung betah dan dapat wawasan/informasi.

Saran saya kalau kemari pakailah jasa guide museum supaya kunjungan kita lebih bermakna dan dapat wawasan...

Visited on weekday and that was exciting because I could enjoy the museum without crowd. The view and ambience on the ground floor and outdoor area was so aesthetic and demure, but since it was weekday and I did not accompanied by the museum guide, a tour on the second floor feels a bit spooky. I suggest to bring companions wherever you are on the indoor area.

I spent about 2 hours there, it was educational and quite informative overall I give 8/10. Not all informations provided in English/Bahasa though. Their collections are amazing and most of it are real-sized. Please add "touchable" or "do not touch" sign to avoid damage from visitors.

You can rest on the outdoor benches while enjoying some foods/drinks there, but it seems their cafe was off due to weekday. There were friendly cats too.

However, this museum does has some lacking aspects such as: Lazy internship students on the reception (anak PKL) and minimum hospitality, greetings, even good attitude in front of visitors. They chit chat loudly, did not greet visitors properly, even some students are busy with themselves. Also, they did not offer the free guided tour nor provide you with informations unless you asked. The only proper greetings and information were provided by the security guard infront of the museum. Had I not asked him about the accessibility to the second floor, I won't know there are more establishments inside. I almost left the museum at that time.

Just a few steps onto the first room there were debris and cements unattended, looks like unfinished flooring project. This made the floor and some of the objects dirty (and no one cleaned it duh)

On the outdoor area, it was really great although very windy and sunny. Please do repair some walls so all the colors even, no cement marks/else.

Vending machines of snacks/cold drinks...