Map of ancient city of Majapahit- Trowulan. Coordinates in the map is taken from Google Earth,
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| Episode 32 Trowulan Archeological Museum |
| At 10 am of January 31, 2007, we left Reco
Lanang for Trowulan museum at Mojokerto. Coordinate of Trowulan museum was S7 33'35",E112 22'54" at altitude of 44m. We arrived at the museum on 11 am. A female staff of the museum, Ms. Puspita Agustina, guided us in the museum. She believes reincarnation though she is a Christian and she has many friends who believe reincarnation. According to her, one of her friends had told her a few days before our visit that Japanese guest would visit your place and you must accompany with the Japanese. She could not believed the advice until we visited the museum. She was so astonished at our visit and she called the friend at Kalimantan who gave the advice. Majapahit museum is located at Trowulan area. They keep collection of 800,000 pieces of artifacts and they exhibit only a part of their collections due to limitation of the space. They exhibit many historical statues collected from various area in East Java. They are obliged to preserve these statues in this museum so as to avoid the statues from destruction by the fanatic Muslims in the area. Address of museum is: museum Archaeologic Trowulan Jl. Mojapahit No. 141-143, Trowulan, Mojokerto Tel/fax 0321-495515 I illustrate articles about the museum and archeological sites around the museum together with related information about Majapahit kingdom. These articles were resulted from further visit to the museum on May 17 and 18, 2007. They provided a pamphlet about the museum, archroligical sites and history of Majapahit kingdom. Author of this web page rearranged the contents in the pamphlet in Indonesian language herein. |
| 1. | Majapahit Kingdom |
| 2. | History of Trowulan museum |
| 3. | Collections in museum |
| 4. | Archeological Sites in Trowulan Area (Coordinates at the end of subtitles) |
| 4.1 | Wringing Lawang Gate |
| 4.2 | Brahu Temple |
| 4.3 | Gentong Temple |
| 4.4 | Segaran Reservoir |
| 4.5 | Bajang Ratu Gate |
| 4.6 | Tikus Temple |
| 4.7 | Kedaton Temple |
| 4.8 | Cemetary of Troloyo |
| 4.9 | Yoni Bre Kahuripan |
| 4.10 | Cemetary of Queen Champa (Makam Putri Campa) |
| 4.11 | Long Graveyard (Kubur Panjang) |
| 4.12 | Great Gazerbo (Pendopo Agung) |
| 4.13 | Market and Wall |
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Wall paper of this page was taken from symbol
of Majapahit "Sun".
References URL
http://www.eastjava.com/books/majapahit/html/museum.html
http://www.ancientworlds.net/aw/Places/Place/418021
http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trowulan
http://www3.famille.ne.jp/~kazuo/ejawa.html
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