Sri Baduga Museum, State museum in Bandung, Indonesia
Sri Baduga Museum is a cultural museum in Bandung with three floors displaying natural history exhibits, traditional objects, and ethnographic collections from West Java. The collection documents the material culture and way of life across different areas of the region.
The museum was established in 1974 in a former government building and received official state recognition in 1980. This recognition allowed the institution to expand its collections and become established as an important cultural center in the city.
The museum displays Sundanese crafts, traditional musical instruments, and textiles that reflect regional heritage. You see objects that were part of everyday life for local communities.
The museum occupies the former Kawedanan Tegallega office building in Bandung, arranged over three floors that visitors ascend in sequence: natural history and prehistory on the first, trade, transport and city seals on the second, textiles, art and ceramics on the third. The entrance sits under the orange gable lettered "MUSEUM SRI BADUGA".
The museum's name comes from Sri Baduga Maharaja, a Pajajaran king who ruled West Java from 1474 to 1513, as recorded on the Batutulis inscription in Bogor. The name was formally adopted in 1990 by ministerial decree.
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