Adityawarman Museum
Adityawarman Museum is a cultural museum which is located in Padang City. The museum was inaugurated on March 16, 1977, taking the name of one of the 14th-century Malayapura kings, Adityawarman who was a contemporary of the Majapahit Kingdom.
The construction of the museum was carried out in 1974. The building of museum situated inside of a cozy park. Entrance fee just 5000Rp per person.
As a cultural museum, the Adityawarman Museum stores and preserves historic objects, such as the Minangkabau and surrounding cultural preservation along with several national cultural reserves. One of them is a building with Minang architecture, called Rumah Bagonjong or Baanjuang
The main collections in the Adityawarman Museum are grouped into ten types of collections, including geology / geography, biology, ethnography, archeology, history, numismatics / heraldics, philology, chemistry, fine arts, and technology. Other collections owned by this museum are ancient relics of the Dharmasraya Kingdom, in the form of duplicates of the Bhairawa statue and the Amoghapasa statue.
Things to do In Padang, West Sumatra (part I)
