Museum Geologi

    Hey It’s me again. Now, I want to tell you about my experience go to Geologi Museum, well It was my first time. I go there with all of my classmates 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. 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. The research department is still very much active and next to documentation, and exhibition, geologists specialising in fosils, stones, minerals and volcanoes reside in the top floor.

     The most interesting part is the West wing, where the evolution of human life is explained in both Bahasa Indonesia as English, with colourful posters and ‘lo and behold', a very nice collection of life size dinosaur replicas, intermingled with some real fosils of giant land turtles, hippo's and other creatures you wouldn't want to run into today. In the far corner a selection of skulls can be found, amongst which a replica of the popular ‘Java man'. 

        Another very educational and interesting part is the volcano section in the East wing, with explanations on formation and working of these in Indonesia abundantgunung api, literally: ‘fire mountains'.

     The museum is very popular amongst school classes, thats why when me and my friends visited there, there was so many students go there. Unfortunately only the West wing about the evolution of human life has English explanations, but there are some English and French speaking guides available, and for intricate questions the resident geologists will be happy to discuss matters indepth. Here are some photos of me and my friends when we visited the museum.