Kota Tua Jakarta, officially known as Kota Tua, is a neighbourhood comprising the original downtown area of Jakarta, Indonesia. It is also known as Oud Batavia, Benedenstad, or Kota Lama.
Jakarta History Museum, the current occupant of former town hall of 17th-century Batavia, the capital of Dutch East Indies and center of the Asian spice trade.
Declining city, in late 19th-century the walled Old Batavia has been reduced to kampung settlements and ruined old buildings.
A street in Old Batavia in 1890, depicting 17th century housing before the development of a business district.
East facade of Cipta Niaga Building, formerly a bank office, has been left roofless and slowly deteriorates; the wooden interior exposed to the element.
The Jakarta History Museum, also known as Fatahillah Museum or Batavia Museum, is located in the Old Town of Jakarta, Indonesia. The building was built in 1710 as the Stadhuis of Batavia. Jakarta Hist
Kota Tua Jakarta
…Art and Ceramic Museum (Former Court of Justice) Gereja Sion (17th century church, the oldest surviving church in Jakarta, and probably in Indonesia) Jakarta History Museum (18th century City Hall of Oud Batavia) Glodok and Pinangsia Area (Jakarta Chinatown) Kali Besar (original river of Old Batavia) Kota Intan Drawbridge…
The front view of the museum seen from the Fatahillah Square (Indonesian: Taman Fatahillah)
Drawing of the city hall (Dutch: stadhuis) in Batavia (by Danish painter Johannes Rach, late 18th century)
A stone tablet showing a VOC vessel in a wall of the Jakarta History Museum