page_title: National Museum of Indonesia
section_title: Gedung Arca (New Wing)
hierarchical_section_title: National Museum of Indonesia / Gedung Arca (New Wing)
caption_attribution_description: English: Gedung Arca, the new wing of National Museum of Indonesia, Jakarta. On the foreground is outdoor theatre and on left is glass-walled bridge connecting old and new wing.
context_page_description: The National Museum of Indonesia, is an archeological, historical, ethnological, and geographical museum located in Jalan Medan Merdeka Barat, Central Jakarta, right on the west side of Merdeka Square. Popularly known as the Elephant Building after the elephant statue in its forecourt. Its broad collections cover all of Indonesia's territory and almost all of its history. The museum has endeavoured to preserve Indonesia's heritage for two centuries.
  The museum is regarded as one of the most complete and the best in Indonesia, as well as one of the finest museum in Southeast Asia. The museum has preserved about 141,000 objects, ranged from prehistoric artifacts, to archeology, numismatics, ceramics, ethnography, history and geography collections. It has comprehensive collections of stone statues of classical Hindu-Buddhist period of ancient Java and Sumatra, as well as quite extensive collections of Asian ceramics.
context_section_description: The new wing called Gedung Arca, located immediately north of the old wing, was inaugurated by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on 20 June 2007. The National Museum expansion and the construction new wing was commenced since 1994, under the initiative of the Minister of Education and Culture Wardiman Djojonegoro. The four-story building is a combination of colonial and modern styles, with the Greek neoclassical facade mirroring the old wing.
  Unlike the exhibition layout of the older building, the museum's permanent exhibit in the new building is based on the frameworks of cultural elements, which Prof. Koentjaraningrat classified into seven substances of culture:
  Religious system and religious ceremony
  Societal systems and organization
  Knowledge systems
  Language
  Arts
  Livelihood systems
  Technology and tool systems
  Today National Museum has completed the new north wing which consist of a basement and seven levels (floors), four of which host permanent exhibitions, while other levels is functioned as the Museum's office. The layout of the four levels is as follows:
  Level 1: Man and Environment
  Level 2: Knowledge, Technology and Economy
  Level 3: Social Organization and Settlement Patterns
  Level 4: Treasures and Ceramics
  These old building and the new wing is connected via the old ethnography room through a glass walled bridge gallery. The bridge gallery is located over the outdoor amphitheatre. The temporary exhibitions with certain themes often took place in this connecting gallery. Cafetaria and souvenir stall is located in the ground floor.
  The basement floor host the ASEAN room that feature photos exhibition and modest artifacts from 10 ASEAN countries.
caption: Gedung Arca, the new wing of National Museum.
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