page_title: Jakarta History Museum
section_title: Dutch colonial government
hierarchical_section_title: Jakarta History Museum / History / Dutch colonial government
caption_attribution_description: English: The hanging of two men in front of Batavia's town hall Bahasa Indonesia: Foto. Penggantungan dua pesakitan di muka Balai Kota (Stadhuis) Batavia (sekarang Museum Sejarah Jakarta) Nederlands: foto. Twee mannen worden opgehangen aan een galg voor het stadhuis in Batavia
context_page_description: The Jakarta History Museum, also known as Fatahillah Museum or Batavia Museum, is located in the Old Town of Jakarta, Indonesia. The building was built in 1710 as the Stadhuis of Batavia. Jakarta History Museum opened in 1974 and displays objects from the prehistory period of the city region, the founding of Jayakarta in 1527, and the Dutch colonization period from the 16th century until Indonesia's Independence in 1945.
  The museum is located in south side of Fatahillah Square near Wayang Museum and Fine Art and Ceramic Museum. The building is believed to be modeled after Dam Palace.
context_section_description: Following the bankruptcy of the Dutch East India Company, the building was taken over by the Dutch colonial government and used as the city hall of the colonial government.
  As the city continued to expand southward, the building's function as city hall (Dutch gemeentehuis) ended by 1913.
caption: Executions took place in the Stadhuisplein in front of the city hall building (ca. 1900)
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