Museum Kebangkitan Nasional or "Museum of National Awakening" is a

history museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these i ...

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. The museum is dedicated for the history of

Indonesian National Awakening The Indonesian National Awakening ( id, Kebangkitan Nasional Indonesia) is a term for the period in the first half of the 20th century, during which people from many parts of the archipelago of Indonesia first began to develop a national conscio ...

History

The building

The building of the museum was constructed from 1899 to 1901. In March 1902, the building was officially opened under the name of

STOVIA The ("school for the training of native physicians") or STOVIA was a medicine school in Batavia, now Indonesia's capital Jakarta. The school was officially opened in March 1902 in a building that is now the Museum of National Awakening in Welt ...

, the colonial medicine school for the Javanese and other native people. Students were obliged to live in the dorm until the completion of the 10 years study. Stovia-fig

In 1920, because of the increasing number of students, studies were conducted in a new building (now the Medicine facility of the

University of Indonesia The University of Indonesia ( id, Universitas Indonesia, abbreviated as UI) is a public university in Depok, West Java and Salemba, Jakarta, Indonesia. It is one of the oldest tertiary-level educational institutions in Indonesia (known as the Dut ...

). The building was then used as a MULO school (equivalent to

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), AMS (equivalent to

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) and school for pharmacist assistants. During the Japanese occupation, the building was used by the Japanese to contain the Dutch war prisoners. After the independence of Indonesia, the building was used as temporary residences for the

KNIL The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army ( nl, Koninklijk Nederlands Indisch Leger; KNIL, ) was the military force maintained by the Kingdom of the Netherlands in its colony of the Dutch East Indies, in areas that are now part of Indonesia. The ...

and their families.

The museum

Due to the building relation with the birth of

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on May 20, 1908, whose day are officially Day of National Awakening since 1948, the building was restored by the government of

in April 1973. The building was officially made a heritage building by then President

Suharto Suharto (; ; 8 June 1921 – 27 January 2008) was an Indonesian army officer and politician, who served as the second and the longest serving president of Indonesia. Widely regarded as a military dictator by international observers, Suharto ...

on May 20, 1974, under the name of ''Gedung Kebangkitan Nasional'' ("The Building of National Awakening"). The previous occupants were moved to

Cengkareng Cengkareng is a district (''kecamatan'') on West Jakarta, Indonesia. The Duri-Tangerang and Tangerang-Jakarta railways pass through Cengkareng. Urban villages The district of Cengkareng is divided into six ''kelurahan'' or urban villages: * Kedau ...

area. The building was initially made into four museums: Budi Utomo Museum, Museum of Women, Museum of Pers, and Museum of Health and Medicine. On February 7, 1984, the four museums were converged into the Museum of National Awakening.

Collection

The building collects 2,042 items related to the

including original furniture of the school building, medical equipment, medical costumes, weapons, photographs, paintings, sculptures, dioramas, miniatures, sketches and maps. The museum is divided into four-themed exhibition rooms: "Room of Early Revolution", "Room of National Awareness", "Room of Revolution" and "Memorial Room to Boedi Oetomo".

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Museum of National Awakening Museum Kebangkitan Nasional or "Museum of National Awakening" is a history museum in Jakarta, Indonesia. The museum is dedicated for the history of Indonesian National Awakening. History The building The building of the museum was constructed fr ...

History museums in Indonesia

History

The building

The museum

Collection

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