Museum Satwa, Natural history museum in Batu City, Indonesia
Museum Satwa is a museum in Batu, East Java, within the Jatim Park 2 complex on Jalan Oro-Oro Ombo No. 9, Temas. It occupies four main buildings whose rear side faces Mount Panderman. The displays combine taxidermied animals from the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Arctic and Antarctica with dinosaur and prehistoric replicas such as Apatosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex, Stegosaurus and Mammoth.
Museum Satwa is run by the Jawa Timur Park Group and forms part of Jatim Park 2 on Jalan Oro-Oro Ombo No. 9 in Temas, Batu. It was set up as an ex-situ conservation institution for wild animals: every mounted specimen died naturally and was preserved rather than hunted. Its collection was assembled from the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Arctic and Antarctica.
Museum Satwa is run by the Jawa Timur Park Group as part of Jatim Park 2 on Jalan Oro-Oro Ombo No. 9 in Temas, Batu. Its stated role is ex-situ conservation of wild animals: the mounted specimens come from animals that died naturally, not from hunting. The displays draw on fauna from the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Arctic and Antarctica.
Museum Satwa sits on Jalan Oro-Oro Ombo No. 9 in Temas, Batu, inside the Jatim Park 2 complex, roughly 2 km from Pasar Besar Batu and the Batu terminal along the Oro-Oro Ombo road. The exhibits occupy four main buildings, with Mount Panderman visible behind them. The museum is run by the Jawa Timur Park Group.
The museum's four main buildings stand against a backdrop of Mount Panderman, visible behind the structures. The preserved animals were not hunted for display: they are specimens that died naturally and were then preserved, in line with the museum's role as an ex-situ conservation institution for wild animals.
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