Benteng Heritage Museum, Chinese heritage museum in Pasar Lama district, Indonesia.
Benteng Heritage Museum occupies a Peranakan Chinese shophouse built in 1684 in Pasar Lama, near the Cisadane River. Its rooms display a collection of old cameras, phonographs, opium and market scales, soy sauce bottles from Tangerang producers, and a Chinese Benteng wedding bed with a video of the Betawi-Chinese wedding procession.
The building dates to 1684 and sits near the Cisadane River, making it one of the oldest surviving structures in Tangerang. In 2011, Udaya Halim converted it into a museum dedicated to the Peranakan community of the area.
The museum keeps a bridal bed of the Cina Benteng and a video of their wedding procession, which combines Betawi and Chinese elements. It also holds the correspondence of Oey Kim Tjang, a Tangerang writer who adapted Chinese martial-arts tales into Malay.
The museum stands in Pasar Lama, the old market district, near the Cisadane River and within walking distance of Tangerang's oldest temple, Boen Tek Bio, so the two can be seen on one walk. The building dates from 1684 and was restored over two years after Udaya Halim acquired it in 2009.
During the restoration, decorative elements in the Peranakan style were added based on academic research because the original building records no longer existed. The result is a structure that mixes physical evidence with scholarly reconstruction rather than a straightforward restoration.
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