Source: www.indonesia.travel
The city of Medan has a dynamic society that is open to change. Even the city of Medan has also earned the nickname as the fourth largest industrial center city in Indonesia. Nevertheless, the people of Medan are known as urban people who uphold their cultural and historical values.
Medan people’s love for culture and history is reflected in the many museum buildings found there. The museum building that stands in the city of Medan is also a symbol of the high sense of tolerance among the people. The existence of a museum in Medan has a significant contribution to the world of education, namely as a means of education.
The following is a list of unique and interesting museum tours in Medan for you to visit.
- North Sumatra Province State Museum
The museum was inaugurated on April 19, 1982 and is known as the “building statue”. This nickname was given because of the large number of statue collections stored in the North Sumatra Province State Museum. The North Sumatra Province State Museum building was built on an area of ten thousand square meters. This museum is categorized as a public museum because of the diversity of its collections, where to date there are more than 6,000 collections stored. Most of the museum’s collections are dominated by historical objects from pre-historic, classical, Islamic, and contemporary times from North Sumatra. This museum building looks like a traditional house-building of North Sumatra Province that has a large yard. at the front of the museum, two large cannons look neatly maintained. There are also ornaments typical of the tribes and some carvings of the faces of heroes from North Sumatra on the front wall.
- Rahmat International Wildlife Museum And Gallery
Rahmat International Wildlife Museum And Gallery is the first animal museum established in Southeast Asia and is one of the best museums to visit with your family for a tour while learning. Its strategic location, which is in the center of Medan city, makes this museum easy to reach by tourists. At the International Rahmat museum, you can see more than 2,000 kinds of preserved animals. Not only large animals such as elephants and giraffes, you will but also see various types of birds and insects in this museum gallery. You can also find animals that are not found in Indonesia, such as white bears there. In general, the gallery collections in this museum are divided into 6 groups. The first group is “Asian Big Five” which carries the theme of the five largest mammals, and the other group is “Bear Random” which features various types of bears. “Birds Kingdom” with displays of various birds and “Mountain of Goats Night”, “African Room”, and “Indonesian Species”. This museum also provides a meeting room with a maximum capacity of 500 people is named “legendhall”. Legendhall is a hall that the general public or visitors can also rent.
With all its features, it is not surprising that this museum has been recorded in the Record Book and has received various awards in the field of world animal conservation.
- China City Site Museum
The city of Medan also has a strong history of trade and culture with the City of China. Suppose you are curious about how the relationship between Medan City and China City is. In that case, you can learn about it at the Kota Cina Site Museum, where the existence of the Kota Cina site itself was only known in 1970 while its ancient relics began to be exposed in 1986. The Kota Cina site in Medan City is believed to be an international port. greatest in the past. Since many historical objects were found at the China City site, the local government established a museum to preserve these historical objects. The museum was later named the China City Site Museum. The galleries stored in this museum include inscriptions, ancient currency, Ming Dynasty porcelain, ancient ship logs, and various kinds of ceramics and pottery. In addition to historical objects, this museum also presents dioramas with sound effects that present a picture of the life of Chinese people in China City in the 12th century.
- North Sumatra Money Museum
If you want to learn more about the circulation of money in Indonesia, especially the Medan area, you can visit the North Sumatra Money Museum. The museum was inaugurated in May 2017. Entrance to the museum is free, so you don’t have to worry about your budget. As a museum with educational and tourism programs, the North Sumatra Money Museum can be a suitable place as a tourist study tour destination. As the name implies, this museum stores many types of money are circulating in Indonesia since prehistoric times, classical times, pre-independence, and post-independence. The most interesting collection of this museum is the collection of currency in paper and coins. as well as legal tender during the VOC colonialism and Japanese occupation. Even in this museum, there is also a collection of sultanate coins, such as the Deli sultanate coins, the Aceh sultanate, Banjarmasin royal coins, and Majapahit coins.
- Museum of the Indonesian Armed Forces in Medan City
Finally, when visiting the Medan City museum tour, you must visit the TNI Struggle Museum. The building was once the Dutch colonial insurance office, which was inaugurated as a museum in 1971. There are approximately 555 historical objects in this museum that are neatly stored and maintained in the museum collection section. If you are curious, how is the red and white flag that was first flown in Medan City, please visit here. In addition to the flag, you can also see a collection of sharpened bamboo and some regional weapons that witnessed the Medan people’s resistance against the invaders during the colonial period. Various kinds of firearms also appear to be lined up beautifully to fill the collection of this museum.
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