Bahari Museum

Bahari Museum has a unique building design. In front of building, the visitors can find a miniature of forecastle or anjungan (a front part of naval ship). A friendly guide named Sutrisna will help visitors to get information in the museum. 

The museum was built in 2008, finished in 2009. Before officially declared as Bahari Museum on April 25, 2009, this building was a place of birth of Didik Heru Purnomo. He was a Laksamana (admiral) of Naval Academy in Indonesian National Armed Forces. It is divided into 4 rooms. The first room is a display area to save antique furniture of Didik and his wife's collection such as sets of glass and cup, and souvenirs from other countries where have been visited. You can find a shop that sell naval souvenirs which t-shirts, books, buckles, key hangers, sarongs, and lamps which cost 4,000 until 40,000 rupiah. Second room is display area to save equipments of Indonesian National Armed Forces that are used in a war craft which telescopes, torpedo, projectiles caliber 20 millimeters until 140 millimeters, ancient telegraph, miniature of war craft and planes, miniature of cadet (title for troops of the Naval Academy).

Third room is the forecastle, a navigator room. You can find equipments that use in navigator room, such as a steering wheel; gyro compass; radar navigation to inform ship position and surface of sea condition; table map to describe the deepness, shallowness, and to observe the navigation sign and the activity of mining location; radio communication; etc. All equipments are original, because they're taken from ship that isn't operated anymore. Now, Bahari Museum has totally 500 collection items. 

The last room is audio visual room, just like a small theater. The visitor can see the movie about Indonesian maritime, one of them is entitled Pengawal Samudra which has 15 minutes duration. Besides being established for tourism destination, Bahari Museum also containing education and information function.

Superiority :

The museum provides the museum map for the tourist 
The museum is clean 
The toilet inside the museum is clean 
The museum have their own souvenir shop 
The museum have a café with marine interior 
Tourist do not have to pay more to take pictures inside the museum 
They provide free guide 
The ticket are included to watch the documentary marine film

Deficiency :

The toilet in the museum is hard o reach because the building is outside the museum
The exhibit doesn’t use dioramas, but they use glass cupboards
Some exhibit only use Bahasa Indonesia
The rubbish can is outside the museum
The information office Is not well informed
Less air conditioner
The signs inside the museum are not well informed

Address:
Jl. R.E. Martadinata no. 69, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 

Opening hours:
Everyday except Monday for public: 09.00 am to 04.00 pm

Admission fee:
Child Free
Adult IDR 1000 
     
Website:
 Bahari Museum