Museum Mandiri
Art Deco-era colonial bank hall with marble counters, vast safes and two-storey stained-glass windows.
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This guide to Museum Mandiri in Jakarta follows Cornelis van de Linde, a farmer's son from Zeeland who moved his family to Batavia in 1929 to oversee the Netherlands Trading Society's new bank. It reaches back to his years in the Amsterdam office of the architect De Bazel, and to the problem the tropical climate set him. Best heard in the main hall, near the stained-glass windows by the staircase.
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