Saturday, March 17, 2012

Ransoem Warehouse Museum



Vacation Star | Ransoem Warehouse Museum | Ransoem Warehouse Museum in Sawahlunto, West Sumatra, which was inaugurated on December 17, 2005 is housed in a former kitchen of coal mine workers and patient of the public hospital Sawahlunto that when it numbered in the thousands. Ransoem Warehouse Museum was built in 1918 with an area of ​​2300 m2. 


Collection of the mine cart on display in front of the Ransoem Warehouse Museum, beside the entrance. In the background read "Memahami Masa Silam Untuk Menata Masa Depan (Understanding the past to organize the future)".

 

there is audio visual room, with air conditioner and comfortable seating, where visitors can see the documentation video of coal mining history in the area of ​​Sawahlunto.

 

At the time of the revolution, 1945 - 1950, Ransoem Warehouse Museum is used as a kitchen for the soldiers (TKRI). Between 1950-1960 are used as offices by Ombilin Coal Company, and then used as a Ombilin school building in 1960-1970, before becoming employees of Ombilin Coal Mine until 1980, and also the local community until 2004.

 

Mortar tread made ​​of wood in the Ransoem Warehouse Museum, carved in the shape of the basin. People pounding rice, spices and traditional medicines, using only the feet and body weight to move the pestle, while the mortar mounted on a large timber.

 

Ransoem Warehouse Museum collection of giant pots made ​​of iron and nickel, some of which have a diameter of 132 cm and 62 cm high. Also displayed a collection of pots, excitatory, and a variety of large kitchen appliances. Pictures of forced laborers who chained his legs, called "The Chain", foreman clothes, clothing workers and chefs, are also on display in this room.

Coal mining equipment, both modern and traditional at the time, and samples of coal, are also shown at the Ransoem Warehouse Museum.


Pans made ​​of iron; curved, size of 165 cm to 190 cm, which is used as a frying pan. These pans do not have handles like usually found in other pans. Frying pan have a long spoon 91.5 cm.


the miners' food menu, The Chain, The Guard, and patients of hospital, which consists of rice (65 piculs of rice every day), meat, salted fish, salted egg, Chinese cabbage and greens, and cabbage.

Food is provided at lunch and dinner, while breakfast is lapek-lapek made ​​from red glutinous rice spiked with coconut and brown sugar, wrapped in banana leaves, which are given every 10 am. The drink is tea. The menu is pretty good it seems, because the colonial authorities concerned so that workers can be productive and generate far greater profits for them.


Photo gallery space in Ransoem Warehouse Museum , displaying old photographs, including photographs WH de Greeve, a geologist with the Dutch inventor of coal in Sawahlunto in 1868. He concluded that there are more than 200 million tons of the content of 'Black Pearl' in the region.

In the gallery space is also displayed photographs of the figures Sawahlunto, Ombilin coal mine maps, and photos of workers carrying out mining activities, such as dynamite blasting, etc..

Netherlands invests 5.5 million guilders to build settlements and mining companies Ombilin facilities, such as rail Sawahlunto - Teluk Bayur, as well as traditional and modern mining equipment.


A building support kitchens, building a steam engine, which is behind the main building of Ransoem Warehouse Museum. Inside the complex there is also a storehouse of raw materials, furnace, ice bars factory, rice mills, and slaughterhouses are located slightly apart.


Concrete tower behind the steam engine building in Ransoem Warehouse Museum.


Gravestones of mine workers who were given a number, no name, is placed at the rear of the Ransoem Warehouse Museum, awaiting a more appropriate placement.

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