Museum Bahari (Maritime Museum)
Colonial spice warehouses and an old harbour lookout tower, now a museum of seafaring history.
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This guide to the Maritime Museum and its harbourmaster's lookout in Jakarta starts in the courtyard of old Batavia, where a squat tower once talked to ships waiting at anchor. It follows the Dutch East India Company's spice warehouses next door, the nutmeg and pepper that passed through them, and the clock that let sailors set their own. Best heard standing between the tower and the long warehouse walls.
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