Bogor’s Zoology Museum: Educative and Informative for All

Museum is an information center that saves facts and evidences of histories in the past. Zoology museum is one of interesting museums to observe the collections of replicas and Indonesian animals’ skeletons. In last Thursday, October 24^st, 2013, my friends and I visited Zoology Museum in Bogor. After we arrived, we needed to enter through Kebun Raya Bogor. It happened because the Zoology Museum and Kebun Raya Bogor had been integrated. Bogor’s Zoologi Museum was managed quite well and interesting, the room was well arranged and unique; it was seperated into few rooms and the collections were classified by their species. In front of Zoology Museum, we were pampered by the interesting aesthetics on the gate of museum.

The paintings on the gate were tree paintings, flower paintings, and even the paintings that characterizes the museum’s uniqueness, that is animal paintings. This kind of thing triggered my admiration in the trip because the museum really noticed the beauty of arts from the paintings. The most amazing thing I saw was the big “whale sceleton". But it could only be seen from outside the room. When I went there, I wasn't allowed to go inside because the room was being renovated.

After that, we came to the collection room in the museum. Obviously, in the museum, besides being an entertaining place for the visitors, it was also educative and informative. Besides watching the diorama of replicas and skeletons, there was also the explanation and information that described the animals. This kind of thing increased the visitors  knowledge about the collection of animals in Indonesia. In my opinion, the museum is really interesting as domestic excursion and even foreign tourist excursion because we can see a lot of Indonesia animals which are conserved and protected. 

                             (Me, My friend and Diorama of Birds Species)

Bogor’s Zoology Museum is a museum related with animal world that has become the destination of Indonesian beauty. When I visited in afternoon, there were a lot of tourists and local visitors, such as kindergarten children, researchers from school and college, and many other people. The museum also has various types of preserved animals and various types of animals’ colors. Before I decided to go to the museum, actually, I had been told by my friend that the museum was scary. However, that kind of thing did not scare me for the visit because it had become a challenge for me.

After I arrived, through the road of “Kebun Raya Bogor”, I was pampered by the green foliages which were beautiful and clean. Zoology Museum collects hundreds or even thousands of various types of animals, such as mammals, avian, reptilian, fish, molluscas, insects, and even invertebrate animals. It was so unforgettable, and it was a precious opportunity because I rarely find these numbers of animals in a place. Visiting the museum was fun as if  I do not need to go to various regions in order to find animals. Other than that, the fauna’s I saw were so many and variative. The Zoologi Museum has 650 kinds of mammals, 1.100 species of birds, 600 reptiles and fishes, 700 invertebrata, 10 thousands insects and 2.300 kinds of mullusca.

                                       (Birds Species)

When I visited the museum, there were a lot of people coming and visiting the museum. Besides holiday, this museum might become the most interesting place for kids because they love to see various types of animals. It is so interesting, isn’t it? When I firstly arrived to the museum, I was welcomed by the preserved animals’ skeletons. Various types of animals can be found here. So, Bogor’s Zoology Museum is a place that can become tools and benefits for: increasing the knowledge about the collection of animals in Indonesia, being an educative and informative place for all people where these people got the knowledge about animals, and being a fun place for an educational trip and recreation.  Like the using of the media display which is more interesting and interactive, it can eliminate the boredom from your daily activities.