The National Museum of Indonesia (Indonesian: Museum Nasional), is an archeological, historical, ethnological, and geographical museum located in Jalan Medan Merdeka Barat, Central Jakarta, right on the west side of Merdeka Square. Popularly known as the Elephant Building (Indonesian: Gedung Gajah) after the elephant statue in its forecourt. Its broad collections cover all of Indonesia's territory and almost all of its history. The museum has endeavoured to preserve Indonesia's heritage for two centuries.The museum is regarded as one of the most complete and the best in Indonesia, as well as one of the finest museum in Southeast Asia.The museum has preserved about 141,000 objects, ranged from prehistoric artifacts, to archeology, numismatics, ceramics, ethnography, history and geography collections.It has comprehensive collections of stone statues of classical Hindu-Buddhist period of ancient Java and Sumatra, as well as quite extensive collections of Asian ceramics.
印度尼西亞國家博物館(印尼:Museum Nasional)是一座考古,歷史,民族和地理博物館,位於雅加達中部的Jalan Medan Merdeka Barat,就在獨立廣場的西側。 人們稱之為大像大廈(印度尼西亞語:Gedung Gajah)在其前院的大象雕像之後。 其廣泛的收藏涵蓋了印度尼西亞的所有領土和幾乎所有的歷史。 博物館一直致力於保護印度尼西亞的遺產兩個世紀。博物館被認為是印度尼西亞最完整和最好的博物館之一,也是東南亞最好的博物館之一。該博物館保存了大約141,000件物品,其中包括 史前文物,考古學,錢幣學,陶瓷,民族志,歷史和地理收藏。它擁有古代爪哇和蘇門答臘古典印度佛教時期的石雕,以及相當廣泛的亞洲陶瓷收藏品。