Applying Interactive Exhibition in Museum of Insects, Taman Mini Indonesia Indah Jakarta

Abstract

Nowadays, people have started to forget the importance of recreational place with knowledge value such as museum because the development of time and technology. One least visited museum is Museum of Insects. Indonesia is known as one of the countries which has tremendous varieties of insects. However, people still pay little attention to visit the museum because monotonous arrangement of collections and nonoptimal functions in the museum. A change of arrangement in the museum is needed in order to be more attractive. The interior design of Museum of Insects TMII serves to increase attention of people toward the museum again. The design is done pragmatically with qualitative method (descriptive analytical) by collecting data first from Museum of Insects and relevant museums as precedent study to crate analytical process about technical and non-technical aspects in the museum. The applied concept for the museum is interactive exhibition with thematic interior approach from the habitat of insects as a result of idea in making Final Project of Interior Design Study, hoping that visitors of the museum will have new experiences when visiting Museum of Insects with interactive exhibition.