Museum Fatahillah through time

Jakarta 1971–2012 5 photos of this spot

5 photographs taken at the same spot in Jakarta, spanning 1971–2012 — 2 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

Buses and taxis wait on Taman Fatahillah, the old town square of Jakarta once known as Batavia under Dutch colonial rule, in this 1971 image from the Tropenmuseum collection.

COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Bussen en taxi's op Taman Fatahillah TMnr 1971 Buses and taxis wait on Taman Fatahillah, the old town square of Jakarta once known as Batavia under Dutch colonial rule, in this 1971 image from the Tropenmuseum collection.

COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Bussen en taxi's op Taman Fatahillah TMnr 1971 A second view of the same square, Taman Fatahillah, shows buses and taxis gathered there in 1971, part of a series held by the Tropenmuseum documenting Jakarta's old town.

COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Museum Sejarah Jakarta aan Taman Fatahillah TMnr 1985 Jakarta's history museum, housed in the former Batavia city hall on Taman Fatahillah, was photographed in 1985 as part of the Tropenmuseum's documentation of the old town.

Stadhuis Batavia, Jakarta 2006 Batavia's old city hall in Jakarta, a Dutch colonial-era building dating to the eighteenth century and now used as a museum, seen in 2006.

Museum Fatahillah 2012 Housed in the former Batavia city hall (Stadhuis), the Fatahillah Museum overlooks Fatahillah Square in Jakarta's old town. Dutch colonial administrators used the building as their seat of government during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.