Balaputera Dewa Museum

Balaputera Dewa Museum stores various collections from pre-historic times, the era of the Sriwijaya Kingdom, the era of the Palembang Sultanate, to the era of Dutch colonialism. The various collections are exhibited in three main showrooms. Before entering the three main exhibition rooms, visitors will see various collections of statues in the lobby of the museum. Various replicas of these statues come from the megalith era in South Sumatra. Megalith culture or large stone culture in South Sumatra is in the Pagaralam highlands. Its position is in the Bukit Barisan Mountain range on the west side of South Sumatra. In this area found 22 locations of megalith cultural settlements. From these settlements found pre-historic objects in the form of statues which later became the collection of the Balaputera Dewa Museum. Various statues that are currently in the museum's collection include the megalith statue of a mother holding a child, a statue of a person riding a buffalo, to a human statue wrapped in a snake. After passing through the lobby, visitors will enter the museum's showroom. In this room, visitors will get information about the early history of the Sriwijaya Kingdom in the archipelago. In this room also found a collection of relics from the pre-kingdom of Srivijaya in the form of pottery, beads, and metal casting. In other parts, various replicas of inscriptions are found that explain the beginning of the establishment of the Sriwijaya Kingdom. These inscriptions include the Kedukan Bukit inscription, Relaga Batu, Kota Kapur, Talang Tuo, Boom Baru, Kambang Unglen I, Kambang Unglen II, and the Siddhayatra inscription. In addition to the inscriptions, in this room visitors will also find other collections from the Srivijaya Kingdom era in the form of Buddha statues, Hindu statues, and Fragments. #museum #park #themepark#nationalpark