As the name suggests, the Indonesian Heritage Museum (IHM) has a diverse collection of cultural heritage objects from across the archipelago. When we want an educational tour with a multicultural character, the Indonesian Heritage Museum is certainly the most appropriate location. It is located in Batu City, East Java, and has been visited since 2010.
Until now, visitors come not only to travel but also to strengthen knowledge related to the rich history of the archipelago. A very important goal to be realized, especially for students at various levels of education. Moreover, currently the priority of education is focused on the Merdeka Belajar Curriculum from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Research. Among them is an exploratory learning schedule at a museum which is a mandatory choice from the School.
In this obligation, the Indonesian Heritage Museum opens the door as wide as possible so that students and accompanying teachers can together carry out outdoor learning activities happily. During the visit, there are certainly many learning materials that will steal the attention. In particular, understanding historical objects from all tribes in the country.
Diversity of Indonesian Heritage Museum
Very special, the Indonesian Heritage Museum holds various evidence of Indonesia’s diversity, traces of the ancient archipelago, the nation’s historical journey, and the latest technology. Students can utilize the museum’s educators or story tellers to provide information about the entire collection. In addition, observing the museum’s collection will build students’ curiosity and desire to learn about the local wisdom of their own nation.
As a whole, the Indonesian Heritage Museum has 17 zones that represent Indonesian regions and store a variety of historical objects throughout the ages. Some of these zones are the Ancient Human Zone, Singosari Zone, Majapahit Village, Majapahit Week, the largest Islamic kingdom in the world, Cheng Ho Zone, Jogja priyayi house, Puppet Zone, batik area, Nusantara Collection from East Java to the entire archipelago and many more.
For example, children can observe a collection of thousands of masks from various regions that vary in age. The introduction of mask culture during Merdeka Belajar’s visit is very good as a form of LKS or Student Worksheet material.
Where each child must work on LKS questions by exploring the entire museum room, especially in the Nusantara Mask Heritage zone.
Augmented Reality Technology Facility
One of the recommended Merdeka Belajar methods is the use of modern technology. Therefore, the Indonesian Heritage Museum is equipped with Augmented Reality or AR for short.
Augmented Reality is a technology that combines two or three-dimensional virtual objects into a real environment and then projects these virtual objects in real time. However, visitors must first download the Indonesian Heritage Museum application on the Play Store to be able to shoot the barcode printed on the wall. In total, there are more than 100 barcodes on the walls of the visiting zones inside the Indonesian Heritage Museum.
Like the student below who is playing an AR movie and seems to meet the oldest tribe in the archipelago.
Technology facilities are one of the Merdeka Belajar modules required by the Ministry of Education and Culture. So that when implementing the Merdeka Belajar curriculum, education about the nation’s history is not only recorded through written media and in the form of artifact relics, but also the digitization of today’s museums based on modern IT.
Let’s visit the Indonesian Heritage Museum!
That is the attraction of the Indonesian Heritage Museum with a variety of objects from the Indonesian Archipelago cultural heritage collection that is very captivating. And also supported by Merdeka Belajar facilities for today’s generation of Pancasila.
Greetings, Friends of Merdeka Belajar.