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Lombok Museums


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The artifacts displayed in the historical museums of Lombok determine the cultural assortment and prevailing richness of the East Indonesian province. Lombok Museums is famed to reveal evidence of well-preserved prehistoric artifacts along with its decorative arts. Take a magnificent tour to the State Museum of West Nusa Tenggara that upkeeps the cultural inheritance along with its values for the native heritage. Besides maintaining the contemporary architecture inspired by Berugak several other customary value were followed by the natives, the exhibits of which can be sighted at the Lombok Museums.

Get to see priceless compilation of ancient work of art of the West Nusa Tenggara province, which is based in the South Ampenan area, lying towards the centre point of Mataram City. Wall paintings illustrating the lifestyle of natives of West Nusa Tenggara especially those of Gandrung, Rudat, Cepung, Wayang, and Jaran Kamput is surely commendable.

Photographs, fossils, and paintings found in the Lombok Museum exemplify the initial stages of planet earth followed by the universe that pursue the Nebula Fog theory. The tectonic formation of islands initiated from Java and Sumatra are something, which are worth seeing.

Discover photographs in the Lombok Museum that shows fossils of ancient mammals and birds, especially those of Paleokarbau, Stegodon, and Hippotatamus. Fossils of rare woods, like Cempaka, Rajumas, Lingsar, Kelincung and Bajur can also be witnessed here.

Learn about the traditional wedding costumes worn by the ethic groups like Sasak, Mbojo and Samawa. The lingual inscription and the leafy manuscripts left behind by the different races are creditable as a record.

Remnant primeval collection of stone axes, kettledrums, beads, statues and oval axes along with royal inheritances can also be sighted within the Museums in Lombok.

Find traces of West Nusa Tenggara weapons one like the Keris daggers that supposedly carried mystic powers that would bring along good fortune and evade disasters for those possessing it. Hunting tools, farming tools, currency exchanged by Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch during colonial era, Kriya arts in the form of Kecopak (tobacco pouch), and Buli-buli (jewellery box) are remarkable form of relics that can be best viewed in the Lombok Museum.

Along with the presence of local armor and arms, native Ikat and earthenware are some of the significant cultural factors that can be sighted within the Lombok Museums.

Apart from enjoying the sights inside the museum the outdoor beauty attracts your senses that never misses your glimpses. A wonderful garden creates an apt ambience for relaxation where one may choose to unwind.

Museum Negeri Nusa Tenggara Barat Lombok
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