The money printing and Bank museum in Surabaya. One of the Dutch colonial buildings in Surabaya. It is a good sample of preserving cultural heritage and as cultural heritage site in Surabaya.

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Bank Indonesia Museum, the exhibits are very minimal, nothing special, the top floor is a large empty room/hall, it's a shame there's nothing on display here. Maybe it could be expanded in the future

U register for Free on entry. Walk around the historic building & U will see Gold bars in the big walk in safe. Old paper money from the Dutch era until now. Old bank Teller booths are upstairs. Banknote collectors will love this place.

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Beautiful building, can be made more interesting by displaying real Indonesian money with proper explanation. Staffs are very friendly. It has big potential to be better museum, maybe with some informative video about the history of money and Bank Indonesia. I'm ready to revise my review to 5 stars when proper improvement made

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Visited this place unplanned last Saturday and got amazed as i walked into the basement. Yes, the entrance lured us to the basement which was rooms for the bank's vault (with thick and heavy vault doors). The rooms used for the display of museum's collections (old currencies, bank machineries, (faux) gold bar, antique furnitures from the past and so on). To be honest, the collection was so dull and definitely need more additions to make this museum better and more attracting. But i was super excited and literally exclaimed "WOW" (for a gazillion times) as I climbed the stairs to the main hall above. First thing that caught my attention was the painted glass skylight! That beautiful skylight illuminate the whole main hall thoroughly. This floor was literally just a very beautiful hall with a row of antique teller stations in the west corner that remind me of 'confessional' in the church (seriously, that was the first thing that came into my mind when i saw it). In the north median of this main hall there was a main gate with its still-very-well functioned revolving door (unfortunately this gate is only open in special occasions). The hall is mainly used for artistry events such as fine arts or photography exhibition, classical music concert and so on. Oh, by the way, I learned that the restoration was held with delicate and detailed studies. For example one column was left un-repainted to show the original layer which exposed original motif that they eventually reduplicated it to the rest of the other columns. Just above the main hall floor there was an attic which was used for archives room in the past. I saw rows of antique wooden archives-shelves in the far south corner. Unlike other floors which was airconditioned, the attic floor was so hot (but at the same time gave me chill and made me rush back down to the hall floor). Overall. This one fine dutch colonial style building is really worth to visit. The tour guide and security were so nice and informative. I wish there would be more publicly open restorated old buildings in Surabaya. :)

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