About National Museum of Indonesia
Founded in 1778 by the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences, the National Museum of Indonesia is one of the oldest in Southeast Asia. The bronze elephant gifted by King Chulalongkorn of Siam in 1871 gives it its nickname Gedung Gajah, the Elephant Building.
Its collections cover prehistory, ethnography, ceramics, numismatics, and Hindu-Buddhist sculpture from across Indonesia, with a notable treasure room of royal gold.
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