Sangiran Archaeological Museum

Sangiran is a small town closed to Solo city, central Java which is internationalized  for its discovery ancient's fossils and well known as a Java man fossil.

The recent museum and visitors' centre has three main halls. The first hall contains a number of dioramas which provides information about <strong>the early humans and animals</strong> which existed at the Sangiran site around 1 million years ago. The second hall, which is more extensive, presents much detailed material about the wide variety of fossils found at Sangiran and about the history of exploration at the site. The third hall, in a separate impressive presentation, contains a large diorama which provides a sweeping view of the overall area of Sangiran, with volcanoes such as Mount Lawu in the background and humans and animals in the foreground, as it is imagined to have been around 1 million years ago. Several of the presentations in this third hall draw on the work of the internationally-known paleontological sculptor Elisabeth Daynes.