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The Bandung Geology museum is the largest geology museum in Indonesia, founded in 1928 by the Dutch. It has three main exhibition areas: the West wing covers geology of Indonesia, the East wing covers the history of life, and the top floor covers geology's impact on human life. It houses over 6000 fossils on display and 250,000 more stored safely. Notable items include Homo erectus fossils and fossils of mammals, fish, and snakes from Indonesia. The museum provides information on plate tectonics, volcanoes, minerals, fossil finds, and geology's effects on humans and the environment.

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Geological Museum Geological Museum Geological Museum Geological Museum

The Bandung Geology museum is the largest geology museum in Indonesia, founded in 1928 by the Dutch. It has three main exhibition areas: the West wing covers geology of Indonesia, the East wing covers the history of life, and the top floor covers geology's impact on human life. It houses over 6000 fossils on display and 250,000 more stored safely. Notable items include Homo erectus fossils and fossils of mammals, fish, and snakes from Indonesia. The museum provides information on plate tectonics, volcanoes, minerals, fossil finds, and geology's effects on humans and the environment.

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Geological Museum

（ Museum Geologi ）
JAYSES Pre-Research Aug,19,2008

社会理工学科
経営工学 M1
孟 倩 （Jane）
Museum Geologi

Background
Room Orientation
– West Room
– Middle Room
– East Room
Museum Geologi
 The Bandung Geology museum is the biggest and most complete
museum in Indonesia of its kind.

 This Museum is founded on 16 May 1928 as a geological center, by the


Dutch.
 Renovated with relief fund of JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency).

 The museum is divided into three exhibitions, Geology of Indonesia in the


West wing, History of life in the East wing and Geology for human life on
the top floor.

 Open from 9.00 A.M. to 15.00 P.M. (Except Friday, Holiday and national
red letter days)
 The entrance is free of charge since August 2006 .
Location

This Museum Its Museum Geology situation


in Street of Diponegoro.
West -Geology Indonesia
～１～

• West wing consist of some rooms presenting information about:


– Hypothesis the happening of earth in solar system Regional tectonic
stage which forming Indonesia geology;
– Existence in the form of maket model active earth husk plates
movement Situation of geology of Sumatera, Java, Sulawesi, Maluku
and of Nusa South-East and Irian Jaya；
– Immeasurable of rock type
(congregation, sediment, malihan) and
mineral resource exist in each area;
West -Room Geology Indonesia
～２～
– Displayed by activity of research of Indonesia geology；

– Volcano room, demonstrating situation some active


volcano in Indonesia like: Tangkuban Parahu, Krakatau,
Galunggung, Merapi and Batu.
Room Geology for Human Life
Middle-Room
～１～
• Fossils, stones, minerals and volcanoes.
– The museum has a large collection of fossils, of
which about 6000 are on display and the other
250.000 are kept in a safe.
Room Geology for Human Life
Middle-Room
～2～
• Mammal (elephant, rhinoceros, buffalo, hippopotamus) fossils:
Tertiary Era (6, 5-1, 7 million year) and Quarter (1, 7 million year);
• Corps Fossil (human being skull) - Homo erectus P. VIII ancient;
• Snake ,fish fossil;
• Quarter area of Sangira, Trinil and of Mojokerto (East Java) -express
human being evolution and history - ancient model in the form of
and panel of maket.
East-Room Life History
• Room East
Divided to become 7 small rooms, give information about
negative and positive aspect of settlement of geology to human life,
especially in Indonesia.
Room 1 presenting information about benefit and usefulness of stone or mineral
to human being, and also panel draw swampy forest of resources mineral in
Indonesia.
Room 2 presenting record activity of mineral resource exploitation and
exploration.
Room 3 containing information about usage of mineral in everyday life, either
through modern and also traditional.
Room 4 making the point processing and management of mineral commodity and
of energy.
Room 5 explaining information about various geology danger types (negative
aspect) like landslide, volcano eruption etcetera.
Room 6 presenting information about positive aspect of geology especially relate
to volcano symptom.
Room 7 explaining about resource irrigate and its exploiting, also environmental
influence to continuity of resource.
Features
1. Museum Geologi obtains various information related to problem of
geology.

2. First human being skull fossil in world, lots of historical animal


framework fossils.

3. A long history of saving and manage galore geology items, like fossil,
rock, mineral, collected during field activity in Indonesia since 1850.

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