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I Am “Successfully Being Kicked” By Museums

Have you ever wondered about what was going on in your country hundred years ago, even thousand years ago?

When you visit some historical places in your own country, do you care so much about the life in the past long before your grandparents, great grandparents were born? like when you see a big clock which sounds is indeed loud, what do you have in mind?

I think it’s amazing how people now are able to do the quantum leap and learn the life in the past through artifacts, books, documents, and oral testimony without any difficulties. Museums are everywhere. They give you the access to the past without having to ask you to “leap out” so forget about the TV series.

When I visit a new place, I usually put museums on my list to visit. I am not saying that visiting museum is my favorite activity when coming to a new place, but skipping this activity seems strange for me. Like I said Museums are the access to the past. Their only password is my ability to process all the info I gain from what I see in the museum. Then after the process, I am hoped to get new or better understanding about something I am so ignorant about that in the end, I finally manage to tell myself ( like note to self) or perhaps people who happen to ask me about the life in the past . And if I fail there is only one meaning to it:

My password is denied- schade

Alert Alert – something wrong with my brain for not being able to process the info.

As a result : I am being “kicked out” of the museum successfully, and friendlily. I left the museum with no info in my brain at all.

If I am so ignorant , it’s probably a big NO-NO to go back there again. If otherwise, I must go back there again, and learn more how to process info in my brain.

Well, some museums are just too boring to visit. And some are worth the second visit.

Is the one I visited with my friends in Jogja worth the second visit?

I so love the lamp post-It really shows Jogja

The non-so-eye-catching museum is located inside the Kerataon Palace Jogjakarta where Sri Sultan and his family live. Inside this small museum, which only uses the small house to display some of the souvenirs the previous Jogjakarta Sultans got from their best friends from far-off lands.

During my “time travel” there, I was welcomed by a friendly guide who works for the Sultan. He is thecurator of the palace who is usually called as “Abdi Dalem” – Private Servants of the Sultans. The souvenirs may not look so extravagant that you will find nothing special about them-it’s all up to you and your brain how you think of these souvenirs.

Water Filter from Germany

The guide told me that the Jogjakarta Sultans have had good relationships with far-off lands since a long time ago- around 18oos. Some souvenirs were also from the United Kingdom, and some other countries. How lovely to know that we have had a good connection with you hundred years ago. Perhaps the life in the past is not much different than now. The only different is probably lies on the technology we are using now.

List of Sultans of Yogyakarta (1755-present)

No.	Name	Reign start	Reign end	Notes
1.	Hamengkubuwono I	February 13, 1755	March 24, 1792
2.	Hamengkubuwono II	April 2, 1792	June 20, 1812
3.	Hamengkubuwono III	June 28, 1812	November 3, 1814
4.	Hamengkubuwono IV	November 9, 1814	December 6, 1823	first reign
5.	Hamengkubuwono V	December 19, 1823	August 17, 1826	first reign
4.	Hamengkubuwono IV	August 17, 1826	January 2, 1828	second reign
5.	Hamengkubuwono V	January 17, 1828	June 5, 1855	second reign
6.	Hamengkubuwono VI	July 5, 1855	July 20, 1877
7.	Hamengkubuwono VII	December 22, 1877	January 29, 1921
8.	Hamengkubuwono VIII	February 8, 1921	October 22, 1939
9.	Hamengkubuwono IX	March 18, 1940	October 2, 1988
10.	Hamengkubuwono X	March 7, 1989	incumbent

From Wikipedia

Now back to the question whether it’s worth the second visit. I’d say yes! as the palace covers a wide area in which I only visited not even a half of it.

Are you into museums?