Balaputradeva Museum, History museum in Alang-Alang Lebar, Indonesia.

The Balaputradeva Museum, officially the State Museum of South Sumatra Province, occupies a 23,565 m² site on Jalan Srijaya I in Palembang. Its three main exhibition halls hold 3,882 objects in nine collection categories, from megalithic statues to songket textiles. In the courtyard stand a traditional rumah limas and a rumah ulu.

Construction of the museum began in 1978 and the building was inaugurated on 5 November 1984. It is named after Balaputra, a 9th-century ruler of Srivijaya known from the Nalanda inscription in India for sponsoring a Buddhist monastery; a 9th-century Javanese inscription records his defeat by Rakai Pikatan of the Sanjaya dynasty, after which he left Java for the area of present-day Palembang.

The museum is named after Balaputra, a 9th-century ruler of Srivijaya known from the Nalanda inscription in India, which records his patronage of a Buddhist monastery. The Palembang Sultanate section displays songket weaving, including a six-metre Naga Besaung cloth, and carved wooden furniture such as bridal screens and chairs.

The museum is closed on Mondays, so Tuesday through Sunday is the right time to plan a visit. The site includes indoor halls and an outdoor courtyard, so it helps to allow enough time to walk through everything without rushing.

The courtyard holds two traditional houses, not one: a Palembang rumah limas and a South Sumatran rumah ulu, both placed outdoors as examples of regional timber architecture. The rumah limas is the better known of the two, but the pairing lets a visitor compare two building traditions of the province side by side.