Come to Know Through the Museum Forest


One of the museum's collection, a painting of forest exploitation by human power

Forest Park Museum and Wanabakti Mangala is a means of information, education, and recreation for visitors. "Our hope, if people had entered the Forest Museum, they are aware of the importance of forests for life," said Prachmatika, Head of Forest Park Museum. Visiting the museum is no charge, or free. Simply fill in the guest book, visitors can explore the forests of Indonesia through the museum.

After filling the guest book, visitors are immediately greeted with a talking tree, 139 year old teak trees towering up to almost touching the roof of the museum building. The tree was about himself through sound recordings, and artifacts around it proved that the story was true teak.

Not only that. Many other things can be learned from the museum collection. For example, the types of forest in the form of dioramas such as, teak forests, pine forests, forest agathis, and brackish forests. All diorama is based on the original and fitted with animal life in it, also comes with a voice box that when pressed the button will explain in detail.

Knowledge continues to grow along step by step to explore the museum. It turned out that the forest and wild life in it, so many benefits for human survival. This is reflected in the collection of forest products, such as the types of wood, paper and pulp.

Various types of products produced from the bark, sap, flowers and leaves, also presented complete. Starting from camphor, resins, varnish ingredients, sandalwood oil, cinnamon and many other products which is still used by humans.

Collection on the first floor also features a variety of forest exploitation tools from traditional to modern, photographs and paintings of ancient timber transport, as well as measuring tools to create maps of forestry and interpretation of air portrait.

Want to know more about Indonesia's forests. Just go up to the second floor. There is no central documentation and information to save thousands and even millions of scientific library collections, both in book form or digital.

The library is open to the public, especially for students. "We do not impose such a library membership card in general. Just because the issue of each collection is limited, visitors are not allowed to bring home, simply read place. But if you want to reproduce we provide a copy, "explained Prachmatika who had served as Section Head for 12 years.

If you want to know more about the forest, please come to this museum which is located on the street Gen. Gatot Subroto, Senayan, South Jakarta, just next to the Assembly building. Do not forget, its operating hours from Monday to Friday from 09:00 until 15:30.