Museum Nusantara Holland Close
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Museum Nusantara Holland Close
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 19:41 PM
Netherlands (AFP)
Starting on
January 6, 2013,
Museum Nusantara in Delft, the Netherlands, declared closed. This
follows hot issue about massive savings on KITLV (literature library with the
largest archipelago in the world) and its Volkerkunde
Museum, Leiden,
and Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam
last year.
Delft City
Council decision to discontinue subsidies and closing Museum Delft is because
the local government has no more funds for subsidized care membutuhakan museums
around 100,000 euros per year. Revenue from admission tickets worth 3.5 euros
for adults and 1.5 euros for children and adolescents aged 12-18 years are not
enough to pay for upkeep of the museum building and its contents were. In 2012,
there were 11,000 people visited the museum.
City of Delft has three main museums Prinsenhof Museum,
Museum Lambert van Meerten-which featured original house and furniture-style
"Oud Holland" - and the Museum Nusantara. With shrinking subsidies
for all three museums, Delft City Council in June 2011 asked the museum
Nusantara find solutions to problems and give time for 6 months.
Meanwhile,
the city of Delft,
with about 96,000 souls in need of a lot of costs to complete projects modern
subway lines.
Nusantara Museum was closed for 1.5 years for
renovation and re-opened in March 2011.
December
2011, Delft City Council met again and decided to close the museum archipelago.
But they still maintain continuity Museum Prinsenhof for storing objects that are
closely related to the history of the city of Delft. Museum Lambert van Meerten itself has
been closed to the public on 14
March 2011.
Nusantara Museum is part of a complex Prinsenhof Museum,
located in downtown Delft.
Museum Nusantara older than 100 years this is the only museum outside Indonesia that only displays historical objects
from various islands in Indonesia.
The
building extends this 3-story showroom on the second floor. First floor is used
for storage and offices. The ground floor consists of 2 large rooms following
the gift shop cashier and a Javanese culture. Here is shown a collection of
various kinds of keris, wayang kulit, the head of Java boat, also a set of
leather puppet plays Willem van Oranje, who made a special request archipelago
museum.
This puppet
set featuring prominent historical figures of the 16th century Dutch. Prince
Willem van Oranj, Dutch revolutionary leader who rebelled against the Spanish
king's power, had lived in the building that is now a museum Prinsenhof. There
he was killed.
A set of
gamelan slendro and a nearly 200-year-old pelog named Kyai Parijata be one of
the attractions of this museum. Until last December, the ensemble Marsudi Raras
still practicing beating the gamelan instruments, once a week, bringing
classical composition Java. The group consists of Dutch citizens and an
Indonesian gamelan lovers.
2nd floor
of the building consists of two large space. His first space storing various
collections of batik. The room is intentionally avoiding the sun to preserve
the color of batik is batik. Some of them have more than 100 years old. Here
you can see a collection of "Batik Dutch" van Zuylen Eliza's work
(1880), Jan Jans, Lien Metzelaar and Franquemont. There are also some Hokkokai
batik (batik at the time of the Japanese occupation).
One of
these collections, scarves Banyumas, never exhibited at the Colonial World
Exhibition in Amsterdam
in 1883.
The last
room to save artifacts from northern Sumatra, Asmat, Toraja and Kalimantan. What is unique is the collection of cultural
origin Nias island. Louise Rahardjo, who once worked as an assistant curator at
the museum said the Nusantara Museum has a fifty to one hundred objects from the island of Nias. During this Museum Nusantara take
good care., "We are fortunate to still have the cultural heritage of Nias.
Many cultural objects are hereditary in Nias Tsunami swept away. Unfortunately,
the object that the object could not be seen anymore. "
Hilly
Djohani Lapian, Indonesian citizens living in Delft
deeply regrets the decision of the city of Delft. He argues, "This building should
be given a chance to show the Indonesian culture from the past to the present.
If my experience here, if an agency is closed, then it will never come back
again ".
The museum
was inaugurated in 1911 as part of the Museum Prinsenhof. With the changes in
the administrative structure, its name changed to Delfts Etnografische
Museum. Year 1977 turned
into Indonesisch Ethnografisch Museum,
Volkerkundig Museum Nusantara.
In the
course of over 100 years, the museum has held a special exhibition on the
development of dozens of Indonesian culture. Diiantaranya is Affandi exhibition
(1979), Kris Heritage (1986), Koffie in Nederland
(1994), Reform of Indonesia, protest in styl (2000).
A number of
Dutch citizens archipelago museum companions still fighting for the existence
of the museum. At least find a place to store and hold the goods. Frank Elshof
a friend of the museum's frontman emphasized, "The city council is the
owner of the collection, so this object will stay in Delft. There must be a solution. We will
explore the possibility of possibility ".
The museum
was able to collect 30,000 artifacts from various islands in Indonesia. Some were donated. Many
of the contributors are protesting the closure of the museum and ask about the
fate goods they've contributed. Until now, the city council has not given Delft further announcement
will dikemanakan cultural objects.
AFP
contacted, Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Retno Marsudi have
known condition. He had visited the museum two days before the closure of the
museum archipelago. Retno Marsudi promised to meet with the mayor of Delft to discuss the fate
of the museum objects, in the near future.
Translation: Louise Rahardjo
