Museum in Bandung (part 1)

Bandung is famous for culinary, fashion, and nature activity.  if you fed up with those activity, alternatively, you also can enjoy  to visit museums in Bandung.

Museum Geologi Bandung
Jl. Diponegoro No. 57 Bandung Jawa Barat

The first and the most visited one is Museum Geologi. located near Gedung Sate (The West Java Governor office, building icon of Bandung), this museum become an interesting geotourism. Museum geologi was opened on 16 May 1929 under the name of Geologische Museum and closely associated with mining research in Indonesia by colonial government (Dutch East Indies). Now, the collections are included rocks, minerals, meteorites, fossils, and artifacts. Visitors also can learn about how the earth was formed, geological phenomenann in Indonesia and the relations between geology and human life. Major attractions of the Museum Geologi include the fossils of Homo erectus, the prehistoric elephant Stegodon trigonocephalus, and the biggest known species of carnivorous dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex that existed during the Cretaceous period. 

Open time schedule:
Monday to Thursday:: 09:00-15:30 WIBBsaturday & Sunday: 09:00-13:30 WIBB 

Friday and national holiday is closed for object collections maintanance.
ticket: Rp. 2000

Museum Pos Indonesia

After visiting Museum Geologi, you can also visit Museum Pos Indonesia which also closed to Gedung sate. The present of this museum is inseparable with the history of Indonesia Post Company. Museum Pos Indonesia is opened in 1933 by Dutch east Indies under name of PTT (Post Telegraph and Telephone) Museum. At first, this museum became a place to collect stamps from various countries. visitor can enjoy the philately collections as well as all the objects in correlation with Indonesian postal during Dutch Indies accupation, Japan occupation and independent era until now in the form of pictures, mock-ups, painting, catalogue, and other postal equipment. 

open time schedule:
Every day from 09.00-1600 except on national holidays.
free entrance ticket.