The National Museum of Indonesia (Indonesian: Museum Nasional) is an archaeological, historical, ethnological, and geographical museum located in Jalan Medan Merdeka Barat, Central Jakarta, right on the west side of Merdeka Square, known as the Elephant Building (Indonesian: Gedung Gajah) after the elephant statue in its forecourt. Its broad collections cover all of Indonesia's territory and almost all of its history. The museum has endeavoured to preserve Indonesia's heritage for two centuries.
The museum is regarded as one of the most complete and the best in Indonesia and one of the finest museums in Southeast Asia. The museum has preserved about 141,000 objects, ranging from prehistoric artefacts to archaeology, numismatics, ceramics, ethnography, history and geography collections. It has comprehensive collections of stone statues from the classical Hindu-Buddhist period of ancient Java and Sumatra and quite extensive collections of Asian ceramics.