We visit a transport Museum in Indonesia!

Written by Paul Sweeney.

In November 2024 we visited Indonesia and while Googling nearby places of interest, I discovered we were only an hour or so's drive from the very first transport museum in all of South East Asia. The museum's marketing blurb online claimed there were more than 300 classic and vintage cars from the USA, UK, France, Germany, Italy and Japan. That was enough for me - a few days later Billy & I arrived at Museum Angkut, camera in hand and excitedly (well to be honest, I was excited) we both went inside to start filming as much as we could in the short time we had available. To say I was impressed and pleasantly surprised by the size and quality of the cars on display is to put it mildly. 

Museum Angkut (translated into English as Transportation Museum) is a located in Batu, East Java, Indonesia on the hillside of Mount Panderman, part of Mount Kawi-Butak. The museum really does have more than 300 vehicles on display and is divided into several zones decorated with the background of buildings from the continents of Asia, Europe & America. Especially in the European Zone, there is a 1800-1900s French-style with various vintage European cars. The cars span very early 20th century vintage models from right up to the 1980s, so most of our audience should find something of interest.