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The Borobudur Museum
The Borobudur Museum
The museum is housed inside the park just a few hundred metres to the north of the temple.
It does a sometimes haphazard job of presenting the restoration process. Perhaps the most interesting exhibitions about this are those of the law of karma reliefs, with explanatory comments, and the photo gallery of late 19th-century shots of the complex before it was restored.
In 1982 a British naval history scholar called Philip Beale was visiting Borobudur when he noticed 10 panels depicting ocean-going ships. He surmised that these ships may have been a part of a famous shipping route ? the Cinnamon Route ? that linked Indonesia to Africa many centuries earlier. This led Beale to build a model ship based on those depictions, and that is now housed in its own dedicated space within the museum.
The museum is open daily 6AM-6PM and entry is included with the main Borobudur ticket.
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