Jambi State Museum

Jambi State Museum began to be built by laying the first stone by the Governor of Jambi, Masjchun Sofwan, SH.  in one ceremony on February 18, 1981 at the location where the museum is located, at the intersection of Urip Sumaharjo street and Sri Soedewi Masjchun Sofwan, SH. street.

Complex of buildings constructed after its establishment was inaugurated by Education Minister, Prof. DR. Fuad Hasan on June 6, 1988, with the name of the Museum of Jambi Province.

With the enactment of Law no. 22 of 1999 on Regional Autonomy, the State Museum of Jambi province turned into the Jambi State Museum in accordance with Regulation No.15 of 2002.

Jambi State Museum is form of Jambi traditional architectural character of buildings which Kajang Lako house and Larik house (Panjang/Length),  adjusted for the purposes of museum techniques. Forms of Kajang Lako house poured on the main building and auditorium, while the form of Larik Houses is poured into the administration building, storage buildings, and conservation / preparation building.

As a public museum, Jambi State Museum collect and treat all types of general collections, the objects that have cultural and scientific values ​​that include:

1. Geologika : wood fossil, rocks and minerals and other natural formations objects

2. Biologika : flora and fauna and human fossils

3. Filologika : hand-written manuscript that describes a thing/event, incong Kerinci that written on the horn and bamboo, the Quran and the Book Tassauf handwritten.

4. Etnografika: located on the 2nd floor, is the Jambi Cultural Khasanah space, presenting among other things, traditional hunting equipment, farm equipment, tools to pound rice, fishing equipment, woven handicrafts, weaving and batik crafts, wedding supplies Jambi Malay tribes, like the divan, wedding , bed, crate a place to store household goods, custom clothing from the districts / cities in the province of Jambi.

5. Arkeologika: prehistoric relics until the arrival of western cultural influences are still numerous in the area of ​​Jambi, Jambi the museum’s collection of stone pickaxe used in prehistoric times in Kerinci, the findings in the vicinity of the complex enshrinement Muaro Jambi script reads like an ancient Chinese gong, kettle, porcelain plate,fragment hands, statues of Buddha, statues Awalokiteswara, wire braided gold necklace with animal heads liontin, chain-shaped brass bracelets, and other archaeological objects such as stupas, stone pedestal, the statue of Prajna Paramita.Photo collection of jars keramolokiga scoop, censer lids top of mountain, serving plates, three colors amphora bottles, kettles, Mei vases flowers blue, pink and white with Kuau bird picture, which originated from Jambi, the collection is located at the National Museum, Jakarta.

6. Historika: a collection that has historical value in the form of a photo collection Siginjei Keris, Samurai sword (katana), colonial era cannons, VOC pistols, war swords, spears traditional ceremonies. Stupas, inscription and VOC cannons

7. Numismatika and Heraldika

8. Keramologika: ceramic artefacts and ancient pottery that comes from Jambi, Chinese, Arabic, Myanmar and
Europe, in the form of jars, jar, plate cistern, plash, bowls, jars, bottles, kettles bercucuk Pendek, jar-shaped lotus flower buds, etc. .

9. Fine arts

10. Teknologika

Location :
located, at the intersection of Urip Sumaharjo street and Sri Soedewi Masjchun Sofwan, SH. street. Jambi Province, Indonesia.