Museum Timah Indonesia

Museum Timah Indonesia is a tin mining museum located in Pangkal Pinang, capital of the Bangka Belitung Islands Province. Housed in a historic 1928 Dutch colonial building on Jalan Ahmad Yani, it is the only tin museum in Indonesia and Asia. The museum documents the history of tin mining on Bangka Island through collections of mining equipment, geological samples, dioramas, photographs and archival documents.

Visitors can expect a compact museum housed in a well-preserved Dutch colonial building with white facade and arched verandas. Inside, exhibition rooms display historical tin mining tools, drilling equipment, tin ingots and bars, mineral and rock samples, old maps, photographs, and dioramas illustrating traditional and modern tin extraction methods. The grounds include outdoor displays of large mining equipment and a landscaped garden area.