Friday, August 6, 2010

Museum Bahari The National Maritime Museum in Jakarta

Planing Traveling to Jakarta?
Jakarta have many interesting place to visit. One of the most famous are Haunted Museum that name Museum Bahari. Museum Bahari located in Jalan (street) Pasar Ikan No. 1 Sunda kelapa West Jakarta, actually on the old Sunda Kelapa harbor area in Penjaringan Administrative Village, Penjaringan Subdistrict, Jakarta, Indonesia. The museum was inaugurated inside the former Dutch East India Company warehouses. This Museum have many collection all about history of maritime in Indonesia.


The museum also exhibits the celebrated Pinisi schooners of the Bugis people of South Sulawesi, which at present make up one of the last sea-going sailing fleets in the world. Some of the displays are Dutch East Indian ship models and cannons. There is also a scale model of the island Onrust which was the former shipyard for repair of the Dutch East Indian ships.

According to the community in the area around the museum, the museum is said to be quite mysterious and spooky. Many strange events outside reasonable, then many of them referred to it as building a haunted house.

You can also visit The MONAS Monumen in Jakarta.
MONUMEN NASIONAL MONAS
by ramadhani