Geology Museum

Geology Museum was established on May 16, 1928. This museum has been renovated thanks to funding assistance from JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency). After renovation, the Museum of Geology reopened and inaugurated by the Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia, Megawati Sukarnoputri on August 23, 2000. As one of the historic monuments, museums are under government protection and a national heritage. In this museum, are stored and managed geological materials are abundant, such as fossils, rocks, minerals. Such characteristics were collected during fieldwork in Indonesia since 1850. 

Museum of Geology is divided into several showrooms occupying the first and second floors. The following are the rooms that are on the second floor of the Museum of Geology and the function and contents of the room. 

Floor I 

Divided into 3 main rooms: The room is oriented at the center, the West Wing Room and the East Wing room. Orientation Room contains a geographic map of Indonesia in the form of reliefs that show the big screen geology and museum activities in the form of animation, cubicles museum information services and educational booths and research services. Meanwhile, the West Wing Room, known as the Space Geology Indonesia, which consists of several chambers that provides information about: 

* The hypothesis of the Earth in the solar system. 
* Order to form a regional tectonic geology Indonesia; diujudkan in the form of miniature model of the movement plates on the Earth's crust 
* State sumatera geology, Java, Sulawesi, Maluku and Nusa Tenggara and Irian Jaya 

Second Floor 

Divided into 3 main rooms: the western, central hall and east room 

West room (used by museum staff) 

While the central and eastern room on the second floor is used for demonstration known as the geological space for human life. 

Central space model contains the largest gold mines in the world, located in the mountains of Irian Jaya Tengan. Gransberg open mines which have reserves of about 1.186 billion tons, containing 1.02% copper, 1.19 grams gold / tonne and 3 grams silver / tonne. Combined open mines and active mines in the surrounding bawahtanah provide ore reserves of 2.5 billion tons. Former Mines Ertsberg (Ore Mountains) in the southeast of Grasberg mine closed in 1988 is a geological and mining sites that can be utilized and developed into an attractive object Geotourism. Several rock samples from Irian Jaya (Papua) and terpamer arranged in glass cabinets around the model. Miniature tower drilling oil and gas are also exhibited here. 

East Room Divided into 7 small room, all of which provide information about the positive and negative aspects of geology TATAAN for human life, especially in Indonesia. 

* Room 1 presents information about the benefits and uses of minerals or rocks for humans, as well as drawing panel mineral resource distribution in Indonesia. 
* Room 2 displays the records of exploration activities and exploitation of mineral resources 
* Room 3 contains information about the use of minerals in everyday life, both traditional and modern. 
* Room 4 shows how the processing and management of mineral and energy commodities 
* Room 5 presented information on various types of geological hazards (negative aspects) such as land longksor, letusas volcanic and so on. 
* Room 6 provides information about the positive aspects of geology deals primarily with kegunungapian symptoms. 
* Room 7 describes the water resources and their utilization, as well as environmental influences on resource sustainability.