MUSEUM SANGIRAN

Museum Sangiran

 

 

Sangiran is an archaeological site of the ancient human beings most in Asia. Areas covering an area of 56 km2 at the foot of Mount Lawu, Central Java, about 15 kilometers north of Surakarta in the Solo River Valley. The complete history of inform Sangiran life of early humans include habitat, patterns of life, animals that lived with him, until the process of occurrence of landscapes within no less than 2 million years old (Late Pliocene to late Middle Pleistocene).

In the meantime, the Museum is located in the neighborhood still Sangiran archaeological site. Here you can see around the 13809 collection of ancient human fossils and is the most comprehensive in Asia. There are also fossil vertebrates, fossil animals of the water, the rocks, fossils of marine plants, stone tools, and some types of animals such as Rhinoceros, cows, deer, Bull, and Buffalo. Audio visual room is also available for the fossil remnants of prehistoric life at Sangiran. Sangiran Museum currently being a magnificent museum with modern architecture. In isni you can see up close the fossil collection of early humans, animals that live in those days, to the equipment used.

Sangiran site is an interesting scientific attractions. This place has a high value to science and is an asset of Indonesia. Since 1977, Sangiran site established by the Minister of education and culture of Indonesia as a cultural heritage. 1996 Sangiran is listed in the UNESCO World Heritage sites as World Heritage (No. 593, document WHC-96/Conf. 201/21).

Since its establishment as a World Heritage by UNESCO, Sangiran gives his contribution to the development of science in the world especially the science of archeology, geology, biology, and paleoanthropologi. Judging from the results of his findings, the site is the site of ancient Sangiran most fully in Asia even in the world.

Sangiran site includes three subdistricts in Sragen district namely Kalijambe, Gemolong and Plupuh as well as Gondangrejo in Karanganyar Regency. Originally a dome is the Sangiran Site research dome Sangiran then eroding part of its peak forming a depression due to the movement of the flow of the river. On depression was found a layer of soil that contains information about life in the past.

In 1934 the anthropologist Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald started the research in the area. In the following year excavations discovered fossils of Pithecanthropus erectus or Java man. There are about 60 more fossils of which are fossil Meganthropus palaeojavanicus are found on this site.

 

Dinas Pariwisata, Kebudayaan, Pemuda dan Olahraga Kabupaten Sragen 

Jl. Raya Sukowati No. 15 B - C (Kompleks Gedung Kartini)Sragen 57213, Jawa Tengah 

Telp. +62 71-7087446, 8822856  Fax. +62 71-894986

Website: www.pariwisata.sragenkab.go.idEmail : pariwisata@sragenkab.go.id