Museum · Paledang, Bogor Tengah, Bogor, West Java
Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense
Museum Zoologi Bogor
The Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense is a zoological museum of Indonesian fauna on Jalan Ir. H. Juanda within the Bogor Botanical Gardens, in Bogor, dating from 1894.
Why go
The Bogor Botanical Gardens' site says the museum grew from the Landbouw Zoologisch Laboratorium, a small laboratory set up in the gardens in 1894 to collect and study insects on crops, whose research later widened to fish, molluscs, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. It counts 2,768,044 specimens in the collection at the start of 2018 and 122 displays showing 954 Indonesian species, with a blue whale skeleton as the museum's emblem. The gardens' site presents the museum under its own 'Wisata' (visit) menu; whether entry is included in a garden ticket is not stated on the pages read. This record is the museum, not the botanic garden.
Near Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense
Historic site
Bogor Palace
The Bogor Presidential Palace (Istana Kepresidenan Bogor) is an official residence and office of the President of Indonesia in central Bogor, a former Dutch governor-general's residence built from 1745 in grounds of about 29 hectares beside the botanic garden.
1 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Park
Bogor Botanical Gardens
The Bogor Botanical Gardens (Kebun Raya Bogor) are an 87-hectare botanic garden founded in 1817 in the centre of Bogor, beside the Bogor Presidential Palace.
1 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Park
Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park
Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park covers Mount Gede and Mount Pangrango in West Java, across the Bogor, Sukabumi and Cianjur regencies; it is outside the city of Bogor, which XTOUR treats only as a travel base.
24 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Museum
National Museum of Indonesia
The National Museum of Indonesia is the national museum of prehistory, archaeology, ethnography and history on Jalan Medan Merdeka Barat in Central Jakarta, known locally as the Museum Gajah after the bronze elephant in its forecourt.
48 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ