Brief History

     Establishing a museum in the Province of Maluku in Eastern Indonesia, started during the years of the 1970-s. At that time Belgian anthropologist (Prof. Dr. Tursch from Bruxell)  and an American anthropologist (Prof. Dr. Pierret from Chicago) found precious worshiped ancestral wooden statues in the South Eastern islands of Maluku. Most of those statues originates from the Leti, Moa and Lakor archipelago and the Tanimbar archipelago. Those artifacts were forbidden to take abroad due the the law of "Monumenten Ordonantie Staatsblad 238 0f 1931". The great numbers of artifacts led to the establishment of "Museum Siwalima".