National Museum of Indonesia is located in Central Jakarta, on Merdeka square. In the National Museum of Indonesia, you can see the archaeological, historical, ethnological collections, as well as learn many interesting facts about Indonesian geography.

The Museum building is also called "the elephant House" due to the fact that before entering the Museum is a bronze statue of an elephant. This statue was donated by Chulalongkorn, king of Siam in 1871. In addition, it is also called "the House of statues" because the Museum presents a large collection of statues from different eras.

The widest collection of the Museum includes many exhibits brought from all corners of Indonesia. The history of the Museum begins in 1778, when a group of Dutch formed the Royal society of arts and Sciences of Batavia. This Institute was a private organization, whose purpose was to stimulate scientific research in the field of fine arts and natural Sciences, particularly in the fields of history, archaeology, Ethnography, and physics, as well as the publication of the data.

One of the organizers of this Institute, a Dutch botanist Jacob Radermacher, donated to the organization of the building and the collection of cultural objects and books, which were of great value, and which began the Museum and library. Gradually the collection grew, in the early nineteenth century, new buildings were constructed.

In 1862 the government of the Dutch East-India has decided to build a new Museum. The Museum was officially opened in 1868. In 1931 the Museum's collection was exhibited at the world cultural exhibition in Paris. However, the exhibition was on fire and the pavilion of the Dutch East Indies was destroyed, like most of the exhibits. The Museum received the payment and has for several years purchased the exhibits to fill the collection again. In 2007 was opened the new building of the Museum, which houses artifacts from prehistoric times to the present day.

The national Museum has rich collections and is considered one of the best in Indonesia and South Asia. The Museum's collection has about 62000 artifacts, including anthropological exhibits, and 5,000 archaeological artifacts from all over Indonesia and Asia.

The Museum is divided into two parts: the old wing - the elephant House and the new wing is Home to the statues. In the House of the elephant you can see a collection of Indo-Buddhist stone statues and sculptures of ancient Indonesia. The elephant House is a treasure house that contains archaeological and ethnographic collection, a hall with a collection of historical relics and ceramic, textiles and coins. The new Museum building, Building sculptures, consists of seven floors. In four of them is a permanent exhibition, while the remaining three is the administration of the Museum. One of the largest exhibits of the Museum is a statue of Buddha, which reaches a height of 4 meters.