Java Sights

  1. National Museum

    The National Museum, built in 1862, is the best museum in Indonesia and one of the finest in Southeast Asia. It has an enormous collection of cultural objects of the various ethnic groups - costumes, musical instruments, model houses and so on - and numerous fine bronzes from the Hindu-Javanese period.

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  2. Sangiran

    Sangiran is an important archaeological excavation site, where some of the best examples of fossil skulls of prehistoric 'Java Man' Pithecanthropus erectus were unearthed by a Dutch professor in 1936. Sangiran has a small museum with a few skulls (one of Homo erectus ), various pig and hippopotamus teeth, and fossil exhibits, including huge mammoth tusks.

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