Loka Jala Crana Museum, Maritime museum in Surabaya, Indonesia
The Loka Jala Crana Museum occupies part of the Indonesian Naval Academy complex in Morokrembangan, Surabaya. Its displays are divided between buildings—a main platform, a planetarium and a Joang platform—and an outdoor exhibition garden. The garden holds a Gannet aircraft, the guns of the De Zeven Provincien, an amphibious PT-76 tank, a VOC cannon, a Bofors L.60 gun and a monument to officer education.
The museum opened on 19 September 1969 as Museum Akabri Laut, inaugurated by R. Mulyadi, wife of Navy commander Admiral R. Moeljadi. On 10 July 1973 it was upgraded to Museum TNI Angkatan Laut, and on 6 October 1979 it took the name Museum TNI Angkatan Laut Loka Jala Crana, meaning a place to preserve equipment.
The name Loka Jala Crana means "a place to preserve equipment", and the museum keeps items used by Navy personnel from the physical revolution era to the present. Among the displays are a replica of the training ship KRI Dewaruci, which sails on months-long goodwill voyages, and a planetarium used by cadets for astronomy and celestial navigation.
The museum occupies the grounds of the Indonesian Naval Academy (AAL) in Morokrembangan, Surabaya, and is managed by Lantamal III Surabaya. Its displays are split between buildings — the main platform, the planetarium and the Joang platform — and an outdoor exhibition garden holding aircraft, guns and tanks. Access is through the academy complex, so visitors should expect to pass a military site.
The museum's planetarium supports cadet training in astronomy and astronavigation, giving third-year Academy of the Navy cadets a reference for celestial observation during their Kartika Jala Krida sea practice. It sits among the museum buildings alongside the Main Platform and the Joang Platform.
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