Holiday Ayo - Bogor’s Zoology Museum is one of the best places to learn about the fauna in Indonesia. This educational tourist destination is a good place to bring your children to if you want them to learn more about animals.

As cited from dolanyok.com, Bogor’s Zoology Museum was built in 1894 during Dutch colonialization era in Indonesia. You can see it from the building, which is rich of classic Dutch architectural influences. The place’s original name was Landbouw Zoologish Laboratorium. It was once used as a laboratory and you can see many preserved animals here.

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Bogor’s Zoology Museum contains millions of different species. They consist of 20 thousand rare animals, including various species of birds, mammals, reptiles, fish, amphibians, crustaceans, and bugs.

You can also see various collections from LIPI biology study center at Bogor’s Zoology Museum, such as the blue whale collection. These collections are kept in Widyasatwaloka Building in Bogor. However, this building is not always opened for public, only once a year.

If you want to visit Bogor’s Zoology Museum, then you have to pay the entrance ticket, which is already one with the entrance ticket to Bogor Botanical Gardens. The ticket is priced IDR 14,000 for domestic tourists and IDR 25,000 for foreign tourists. As for the parking fee, it is IDR 30,000 for four-wheeled vehicles, and IDR 5000 for two-wheeled vehicles.

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Bogor’s Zoology Museum is opened every day. The operational hour is 7.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. local time from Monday to Thursday, 7.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. local time on Fridays, and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. local time on Saturday, Sunday, and national holidays. From Monday to Saturday, four-wheeled vehicles are permitted to enter the museum yard. But on Sunday, only bikes can enter.

Bogor’s Zoology Museum is located at Ir. H. Djuanda Street, Number 9, Paledang, Bogor. You can go there through the entrance to Bogor Botanical Gardens.