Museum Huta Bolon Simanindo

One of destinations in Samosir

The museum has entrance fee of 20,000IDR per person and family-owned. You can see traditional Batak houses for the king and family but you can’t enter the houses. I was lucky to meet the owner during ...

A museum or a touristy shop?

The truth is we were expecting to see a Batak museum, and it's not exactly that. It's a collection of Batak houses, but you can only enter one of them. It's more of a souvenir shop and Batak relics st...

A remarkable place on Toba Lake, a great place to learn about Batak Toba

This is a remarkable place and not to be missed when you are in Toba lake. It takes about 30 minute drive by motorbike from Tuktuk on this beautiful and interesting road. The place is nicely preserved...

Isabelle (France)

We visited the Simanindo museum in August 2019. The Batak traditional houses and the royal thumbs are well preserved. In the small museum, there are also interesting and well preserved weapons and mus...

Interesting visit

The museum is located in Tomok and there is a small entrance charge to visit it, but the people in charge will show you round the Batak House and explain about the Batak culture. We found it very inte...