On the weekend of 2 My 2014, Dad promise you for a trip to Museum PP-IPTEK at Taman Mini. This is no ordinary mmuseum. It is a science museum, where there are fancy lights, button to press, gears and dials to turn, lever to pull, hole to blow, anything that you can imagine. Laser maybe?
Along the way to the museum, still in Taman Mini, Dad drive through an airplane. Not an ordinary airplane. On the tail printed its registry number: RI 001. It is Seulawah, a DC3 aircraft that was used as the first Commercial Aircraft in Indonesia. And it has a big propeller.
We stopped by and snapped some picture. You and dad, you and grandma and the airplane itself.
We then have lunch nearby a cable car station. There are also monorail track nearby, which make rumbling noise as the train pass.
After lunch, when we enter museum PP-IPTEK, you were quite sleepy. ON the basement level, there are many small displays of mechanic, dynamo and magnetism. With little enthusiasm you still turn every dials you can reach.
Things get more interesting as we move up. There are display with button marked with animal. Each button pressed will show the food chain that feed the animal. . You might not understand it now, but still press the button anyway for the flashing light.
Grandma seems to have a good time too. She hop on a bicycle to see how her bone move when she cycle
We walk into the next section where there are display of small aircraft. “Waaaaaaa”, in your usual tone of seeing or hearing an airplane. The aircraft is printed with word: Experimental. The airplane is categorized as swayasa, meaning that 51% of its part is home made instead of factory made. Dad don’t know if it really can fly. If it is, will you make one later with dad?
Just outside the aircraft room, there are replica of N250 cockpit. It is the first Indonesian made aircraft. The cockpit replica is a bit worn out, with button missing due to irresponsible hand. Dad’s impression? The cockpit is a bit small and difficult to move around.
The top floor of the museum has a room dedicated for mathematics. Now dad know how they come out wit Pythagoras Formula. And how can one calculate the size of irregular shape. And now you know the fun of playing with blocks, or pushing bicycle which has square, instead of round wheel.
Time was almost runs out when we were back on the basement, and found another 3 interesting room. The first of is electricity. Definitely not for baby, as it has a display of what tricks high voltage electricity can do. It has a dynamo though, that you can turn.
The next room host earthquake and tsunami simulator. One particular simulation has a lever that, when pushed down into body of water, will cause wave that simulate an earthquake triggering a tsunami. Not only you that push the lever with all your might. Grandma also lend her hand too to create a tsunami.
And finally, the last room for the day: Physics. There are different size of gears connected with a belt. A dial is connected to the bigger dial. Turn the dial, and a tachometer will display how fast the small gear turns. Next to it is 3 slope with different shape. Put a ball on each track and see which one reach the ground first
Exhausted, we walk out of the museum at 17:30, after several announcement that the museum is closing for the day. You fall asleep not long after we left, tired, but satisfied. So does Dad, satisfied and promise to take you back someday for the real Physics and Math lesson.
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