Designing and Manufacturing Virtual Museum Applications
"Museum Keris Nusantara" based on Virtual Reality (VR)
Yudho Yudhanto, Winita Sulandari, Lucia Dinta Pratiwi, Katherin Secondthania Novit and Mia
Agustina
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta, Indonesia
mia96agustin}@gmail.com
Keywords: Virtual Reality, Museum Keris Nusantara Surakarta, Interactive, Visitors, VR.
Abstract: Museum of Keris Nusantara is one of museums located in Surakarta City. Unfortunately, the people of
Surakarta and the surrounding area are still not well informed about this museum. This is due to the lack of
publication to the public. How to make the community interested in visiting museum is a challenging matter
to be solved. This study presents a virtual reality of Museum Keris Nusantara Surakarta as a tool for interactive
publication that can introduce the various cultural heritage offered by the museum. By implementing the
interesting features, the virtual museum application provides many fascinating experiences in exploring the
virtual world of Museum Keris Nusantara Surakarta. Hence, this application can increase the number of
museum visitors.
1 INTRODUCTION
Indonesia has a lot of cultural heritage that need to be
preserved. According to the Ministry of Education
and Culture (2017) Indonesia has approximately 434
museums (Sekjen Kemdikbud, 2017) and more than
54 museums are in Central Java. The museum is
managed by the government and private companies.
Museums are valuable assets as well as a medium for
the cultural preservation and as the tourist attraction.
According to government regulation (PP) number 6
of 2015 the museum has a function as a place of
research, educational facilities and recreational
tourism (Peraturan Pemerintah Republik Indonesia
Nomor 66 Tahun 2015 Tentang Museum).
Surakarta City is one of the cultural cities in
Central Java that has 9 museums. One of them is the
Museum Keris Nusantara. Museum Keris Nusantara
(see Figure 1) was inaugurated on August 9, 2017.
This museum is located at Jalan Bhayangkara No. 2
Surakarta, Central Java Province, precisely behind
Sriwedari R.Maladi Stadium. The area of the
Museum is ± 6,968 square meters. The museum has 5
floors. Each floor has a unique name except for the
basement in the lowest floor. The 2
nd
floor is the
Wedharing Wacana, which includes the main door,
administration section (counter) and information,
custody of goods, office and audio room. In the 3
rd
floor named by Purwaning Wacana, we can find
showrooms, libraries, play rooms for children, and
kris restoration rooms. The Cipta Adihulung is on the
4
th
floor consists of the diorama room, and the
blessing of the area while the Esthining Lampah is on
the top floor has the space for the creativity and the
storage of kris, swords, spears and other traditional
tools.)
Figure 1: Museum Keris Nusantara
Based on the results of interviews with the
manager of the museum, there were some problem
that need to be solved. The main problem faced by the
museum was the declining of the number of visitors.
Bambang MBS, the Head of the UPT Museum of
Culture in Solo, said that at the beginning of the
opening of the kris museum, the number of visitors
was quite a lot, but it decreased over time as well as
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Yudhanto, Y., Sulandari, W., Pratiwi, L., Novit, K. and Agustina, M.
Designing and Manufacturing Virtual Museum Applications "Museum Keris Nusantara" based on Virtual Reality (VR).
DOI: 10.5220/0008518301360141
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Islam (ICMIs 2018), pages 136-141
ISBN: 978-989-758-407-7
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