Geological Museum

Bandung’s Geological Museum

Geological Museum still on Jalan Diponegoro just short walk from Satay Building is one of the largest geological museums in South East Asia. This museum affiliated to center for research and Geological Development. It was built and inaugurated in May 16^th 1826, the building’s exhibition hall occupied a floor of 1.200 square meters, divided into five parts, namely : Map, History of Geology, Sources of Mineral and Energy, Volcano and General Geology and equipped with a 40 seats capacities lecture hall.And houses numerous fossils, including scull replicas of Java Man (the original of which was escalated from East Java), rock, mineral, maps, volcano models, earthquake and it’s detectors and others pertinent to geology are exhibited permanently here. Most of those displayed things were originally from Indonesia, only a small part come from abroad.

Visiting the museum, visitors can easily understand the chronological history of geology, begin with an illustration of earth condition 4 billion years ago. Among the exhibited things are the skull fossils of the first human being in the world and prehistoric animals such as elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus and meteorite of 165 kilograms displacement which fell in March 30^th, 1884, at Jatipelangon, Madiun East Java. Indonesia’s earth potential can be known clearly from geographical maps, geology, diffusion of volcano, diffusion of mineral and oil field. Information and data about earthquake, land movement, rock as the product of volcano’s magma activities, geological data and the bottom of Banda Sea area also exhibited here.