Bengkulu Museum was built in 1978 on an area of 9974 m2 and a new function on May 3, 1980. Bengkulu Museum formerly located at Fort Marlborough but now the museum moved to a new building located in the ST Pembangunan No.8, Padang Harapan. There are two main indoor exhibition space proper and temporary exhibition space. In that room that visitors can see the 5.660 collections in various fields, namely:
- Field Biologika
- Field Etnografika
- Field Arkeologika
- Field Historika
- Field Numismatika/Heraldika
- Field Filologika
- Field Keramologika
The Museum is also the repository collection of historic objects and the each tribe culture contained in Bengkulu. Among them are:
- Wedding dress collection;
- Custom clothing;
- Household appliances;
- Traditional weapons;
- Traditional house forms;
- Writing the letters “Ka ga nga”;
- Weaving craft, and others.
Bengkulu Museum also has a collection of 126 manuscripts hitherto unknown literary identity (anonymous). Currently, ten of which have been successfully translated into Indonesian. Collection of ancient manuscripts containing pantung, history and discourse is tens or even hundreds of years old.
Bengkulu Museum also has traditional fabrics collection are fabrics Besurek one that is fabric made from cotton, manufacturing techniques such as Batik cloth. Cain Besurek have motives like Arabic Calligraphy motifs but unfortunately this does not establish that the word can not be read. Heard stories that the fabric is an outgrowth of lamvang Surya Majapahit Hindu-Buddhist era in Indonesia.
In addition, one of the museum collection highlights is being Drukkey Populair printing machines with brand “Golden Press”. The printing press made in the United States was made in 1930. Drukkey Populair were used by the Indonesia Government to print “Red Money”. Red money is a kind Oeang Republic of Indonesia (ORI) (English : Republic Of Indonesia Money), which functioned as a legitimate exchange, specifically in the Bengkulu area.
The museum is located in the Bengkulu City is open daily to the public, except on Monday, from 08.00 – 13.00. The museum is easily accessible to visitors from out of town. From the airport Fatmawati, this museum is just 9 km away, while the port of about 19 km, and from the bus terminal about 3 km. For those of you who want to relax and quickly you can use taxi transport.
Curious? Please come to the museum to see the Bengkulu Province direct antiquarian who were there.
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