Jun 7, 2014

West Nusa tenggara Museum (NTB Museum) located at Jalan Panji Tilar,Mataram, Lombok, NTB. West Nusa Tenggara museum (NTB Museum) is usually open on Tuesday-Friday at 8:00 to 2:00 p.m, and Saturday-Sunday 08:00 to 11:00 hours. The museum have a lot of collection one of them are geology, biology, ethnography, archeology, history, numismatic, heraldic, philology, and ceramics collections.

From the outside of this museum, we can see the relics of a cannon and anchor the rest of the Dutch arrival. while on the inside, you can see the doll is dressed in traditional Sasak, Mbojo and Samawa which is part of the culture of the province, in the Main Exhibition Room, there is a row of glass cabinets containing equipment event of death, the Museum also displays a collection of objects marriage ceremony, other collections here is the historical record of the Lombok with scripts written on a manuscript. You can also see a collection of ceramics that many come from China. At the gun, this museum shows the various models dagger commonly used as a complement to traditional ceremonies. In addition to those already mentioned above, these following also are some objects contained in the museum NTB, among others:

  • Kris hilts gold , and 1,239 manuscripts written on palm leaves

  • Scripture in hand writing hundreds of years ago

  • The types of currency from ancient times to the present

  • Some of the sasak crafts

  • There is a miniature replica of Mount Rinjani National Park , the Borobudur and Prambanan temples , and others

The land of the museum building has an area of ΓΆ€‹ΓΆ€‹8,613 m², while it is 3.160 m². This museum has the form means: Permanent Exhibition Room, Temporary Exhibition Space, auditorium, library room, Laboratory Space/Conservation, Storage Space, Space Administration and Canteen/Cafeteria.