Museum Fatahillah, History museum in Kota Tua, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Museum Fatahillah is a three-story building with cream-colored walls and green wooden doors located in Jakarta's Old Town. Inside, visitors find historical maps, traditional furniture, ceramics, and numismatic objects arranged throughout the space.
The building was constructed between 1707 and 1710 as the City Hall of Batavia and served as the administrative center for over two centuries. It was eventually converted into a museum to preserve the city's past for public understanding.
The museum's name honours Fatahillah, the commander who took Sunda Kelapa from the Portuguese in 1527 and renamed it Jayakarta. Exhibits include a replica of the 1595 Van Linschoten map of the city and a cannon called Si Jagur, once used in fertility rites by women hoping to conceive.
The museum sits on Jalan Kali Besar Timur 3 in Pinangsia, Taman Sari, West Jakarta, within the Kota Tua area. The Transjakarta Museum Sejarah Jakarta stop, formerly named Museum Fatahillah, serves corridors 1 and 12 with buses toward Kota and Tanjung Priok or Sunter Kelapa Gading. Nearby are Terminal Kota Tua, Kantor Pos Kota and Museum Wayang.
The building has underground cells that once served as a prison under Dutch East India Company rule with harsh conditions. These spaces remain visible today and reveal a darker chapter of the city's story.
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