National Archives Building, Jakarta

National Archives Building
Gedung Arsip Nasional
National Archives Building
location within Jakarta National Archives Building, Jakarta (Indonesia)
General information
Status	Restored
Type	Museum
Architectural style	Old Indies style
Location	Jakarta, Indonesia
Address	Jalan Gajah Mada no. 111
Coordinates	6°9′14″S 106°49′1″E
Groundbreaking	1755
Estimated completion	1760
Design and construction
Architect(s)	anonymous
Other information
Public transit access	Mangga Besar

The National Archives Building (Indonesian: Gedung Arsip Nasional) is the building of the Government Museum in Jakarta, Indonesia. The building, formerly a late 18th-century private residence of Governor-General Reinier de Klerk, is part of the cultural heritage of Jakarta. The house is an archetypal Indies-Style house of the earliest period.

The building in the 1930s

Interior of the National Archives Building

Cited works

• Akihary, Huib (1990). Architectuur & Stedebouw in Indonesië 1870/1970. Zutphen: De Walburg Pers. ISBN 9072691024.
• de Haan, F. (1922). Oud Batavia - Eerste en tweede deel. Batavia: G. Kolff & Co.
• Gill, Ronald (1998). Gunawan Tjahjono (ed.). Country Houses in the 18th Century. Indonesian Heritage - Architecture. Vol. 6. Singapore: Archipelago Press. ISBN 981-3018-30-5.
• Het Indische bouwen: architectuur en stedebouw in Indonesie : Dutch and Indisch architecture 1800-1950. Helmond: Gemeentemuseum Helmond. 1990. Retrieved March 30, 2015.
• Messakh, Matheos V. (July 15, 2008). "A home truth about the house of a Dutch governor-general". The Jakarta Post. PT. Niskala Media Tenggara. Archived from the original on July 26, 2008. Retrieved November 13, 2016.
• Taylor, Jean Gelman (1983). The Social World of Batavia: European and Eurasian in Dutch Asia (illustrated ed.). Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299094706.