Maritime museum

One of Jakarta’s popular attractions is the Maritime Museum, or Bahri, located in the quiet harbor of the northern part of the city. It was opened in 1977 in the old Dutch East India Company warehouse used to store spices.

The museum contains collections about maritime history, traditions of navigation and the importance of the sea in the economy of modern Indonesia. The Maritime History Room features models of ships and cannons, as well as a mockup of Onrust Island, which housed a former shipyard for the Dutch East India Company ship repair. The exposition dedicated to sailing ships contains models of the Indonesian archipelago. Here is a rare collection of schooners model Pinisi, which is still very popular in the world.

In the field of modern shipping, Bahri presents various navigation aids, naval maps of Indonesia, information about lighthouses, valuable photographs and marine folklore. A separate hall is occupied by a collection dedicated to biological oceanography, which presents the diversity of flora and fauna of the coastal region of Indonesia.