Bandung Geology Museum

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100m from Gedung Sate

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The Geological Museum (Museum Geologi Bandung) was established on May 16, 1929. The museum underwent renovations with funding assistance from JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency). Upon completion of the renovations, the Geological Museum was reopened and inaugurated by the Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia, Megawati Soekarnoputri, on August 23, 2000. As a historical monument, this museum is under the protection of the government and is considered a national historical legacy. Within the museum, various geological materials such as fossils, rocks, and minerals are preserved and managed. All these materials have been collected during fieldwork in Indonesia since 1850.

The Geological Museum

is divided into several exhibition rooms located on first and second floor. The first floor is divided into 3 main rooms: the orientation room in the central part, the west wing room, and the east wing room.

The Orientation Room contains a relief widescreen map of Indonesia’s geography that displays geological activities and museum events in animated form, a museum information service room, and an education and research service room.

The west wing room, also known as the Indonesian Geology room, consists of several chambers presenting information about the hypotheses of Earth’s formation within the solar system. The regional tectonic arrangement that shapes Indonesia’s geology is represented in the form of a model of active plate movements.

East wing room is a room that illustrates the history of the growth and development of living beings, from primitive to modern, inhabiting this planet known as the space of the history of life. The picture panels adorning the walls of the room begin with information about the conditions of the Earth formed around 4.5 billion years ago, where even the most primitive living beings had not yet been discovered.

The second floor is aslo divided into 3 main rooms: the west room, the middle room, and the east room.

The west room is used by museum staff, while the middle and east rooms on the second floor are used for exhibitions known as the geology room for human life.

The middle room contains a model of the world’s largest gold mine, located in the Central Mountains of Irian Jaya. The Grasberg open-pit mine has reserves of about 1.186 billion tons; with copper content of 1.02%, gold at 1.19 grams/ton, and silver at 3 grams/ton. The combination of several open-pit mines and active underground mines in the surrounding area provides reserves of iron ore totaling 2.5 billion tons. The former Ertsberg Mine (Ore Mountain) southeast of Grasberg, which closed in 1988, is a geological site and mine that can be utilized and developed into an attractive Geotourism destination. Some examples of rocks from Irian Jaya (Papua) are arranged and displayed in glass cabinets around the model. Miniature oil and natural gas drilling towers are also showcased here.

The east room is divided into 7 small rooms, each providing information on the positive and negative aspects of geological formations for human life, especially in Indonesia.