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The museum is integrated within Borobudur Archaeological Park inaugurated in 1983. Also located within Borobudur archaeological complex, right on west side of Karmawibhangga Museum is Samudra Raksa Museum displaying Borobudur Ship. The entry to both museums are included within the entrance ticket of Borobudur Archaeological Park. [3]
The centerpiece of museum is the full-scale reconstruction of the 8th-century Borobudur ship. It was used in a successful expedition from Indonesia to Madagascar and Ghana in 2003—2004. The Borobudur Ship — a 25 meter-long wooden ship modeled after wall reliefs found on the 8th century Borobudur temple in Central Java.
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA: About 45,000 artifacts [10] Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA: Over 45,000 artifacts [11] University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA: Over 42,000 artifacts [12] Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England: About 40,000 ...
Today the Samudra Raksa is housed and displayed in Samudra Raksa Museum, located a few hundred meters north of Borobudur temple within the complex of Borobudur Archaeological Park. The Ship Museum Samudra Raksa was opened by Coordinating Minister for Welfare, Prof. Dr. Alwi Shihab of the Republic of Indonesia, on 31 August 2005. It was a ...
This is a list of museums with major collections of Greek and Roman antiquities. Naples Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy 130,000 objects [1] State Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia 106,000 objects [2] (Misleading collection, includes many objects from ancient settlements on the Northern Black Sea coast) British Museum, London, UK 100,000 ...
Borobudur Temple Compounds is the World Heritage designation of the area of three Buddhist temples in Central Java, Indonesia. It comprises Borobudur , Mendut , and Pawon . The temples were built during the Shailendra dynasty around the 8th and 9th centuries CE and fall on a straight line.
Of the original 504 ancient Buddha statues in Borobudur, over 300 are damaged (mostly headless), and 43 are missing. The looted Borobudur Buddhas' heads were mostly sold abroad, ending up in private collections or acquired by Western museums [11] such as the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam and The British Museum in London. [12]
On 28 August 2006 the symposium took place in Borobudur Archaeological park. A massive presence of security forces safeguarded the venue, fortunately, it was positioned in a way to provide maximum security and at the same time being virtually invisible temple itself, maintaining the serene atmosphere of the site and the surrounding gardens.