Report On the Visit Of Zoology Museum

Bogor,Indonesia

Nama : Muhammad Zaki

Kelas : VII F

SMPN1 KELAPA DUA

Jl. Pawon raya,karawaci Tangerang.
 BACKGROUND OF ZOOLOGY MUSEUM

Bogor Zoology Museum is a museum located to the next of the main entrance
of the Bogor Botanical Garden in the city of Bogor, Indonesia. The museum and
its laboratory was founded on 1894 by government of Dutch East Indiesduring
the colonial era. It contain one of the largest collection of
preserved fauna specimen in Southeast Asia.

HISTORY OF ZOOLOGY MUSEUM

Bogor Zoology Museum was founded by Dr. J.C. Koningsberger in August

1894, was originally just a small laboratory at the corner of the Bogor Botanical
Garden (formerly known as Lands Plantentuin). The first laboratory was known
as Landbouw Zoologisch Laboratorium (agriculture and zoological laboratory),
it focus on insect pests on plants.

Inspired by his visit to Sri Lanka in 1898, J. Koningsberger went to collect

Animals specimen for researches with assistance of Dr. Melchior Treub. At the
end of August 1901, a building dedicated for zoological museum was finished
and it would be known as Zoologisch Museum and Wekplaats. In 1906 the
museum and the laboratory was combined and renamed Zoologisch Museum en
Laboratorium. In 1912 Peter Ouwens wrote in the museum the first scientific
description ever of Komodo Dragon. The museum is known as its current name
after Indonesia officially gained its independence in 1950.

In 1987 the institution known as Zoologicum Bogoriense was renamed

Research association and zoology development (Balai Penelitian dan
 Pengembangan Zoologi) which is under Pusat Penelitian dan pengembangan
biologi (Puslitbang Biologi) (institute of research and development of biology).
The collection the museum currently had today was only placed in 1997 with
grants from the world bank and the Japanese government.

FEATURE OF ZOOLOGY MUSEUM

The Bogor Zoological Museum has space of 1,500 m2(16,000 sq ft) and contain

one of the most extensive fauna collection in Asia. There are 24 rooms in the
museum and due to the fragility of some of the collection, the museum's
temperature is set at 22 °C (72 °F). The museum collection includes fossilised
and preserved animals:
 Mammals - 650 species and 30,000 specimens

 Birds - 1000 species and 30,762 specimens

 Reptiles and amphibians - 763 species and 19,937 specimens

 Insects - 12000 species and 2,580,000 specimens

 Molluscs - 959 species and 13,146 specimens

 Other invertebrates - 700 species and 15,558 specimens

There is also a skeleton of a blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus), which is the

biggest of its kind in Indonesia.
 LIST OF UBJECT NAMES AT ZOOLOGY MUSEUM

1. The skeleton of a giant whale

2. Todak fish
3. The skeleton of a dinosaurus
4. Rhinoceros
5. The Big turtle
6. Wild dogs
7. Fox collection
8. Bull collection
9. Buffalo collection
10. Human skeleton
11. Mouse collection
12. Goose collection
13. Mamalia collection
14. Bird of prey collection
15. Eagle collection
16. Cassowary collection
17. Cendrawasih collection
18. Mountain bird collection
19. Monkey collection
20. Spider collection
21. Butterfly collection
22. Fish collection
23. Hamster collection
24. Tiger collection
25. Cheetah
26. Leopard Collection
27. Orang utan collection
28. Snake collection
29. Reptile on the wall
30. Reptile collection
31. Wetlands collection
32. Alligators at the entrance
33. Bird species
34. Owl species