The Faculty of Medicine (FK) of Universitas Indonesia (UI), together with the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia (Kemenkes RI), presents the Mini Museum Siklus Hidup (Mini Life Cycle Museum) at Gedung Sate Park, Bandung, West Java. This collaboration is part of a series of Ayo Sehat Festival 2024 activities which took place on 9-15 September 2024 and opened directly by the Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia (RI), Ir. Budi Gunadi Sadikin, CHFC., CLU.
The Mini Life Cycle Museum developed by the Indonesia Museum of Health and Medicine (iMuseum) IMERI FKUI and the Directorate General of Public Health of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia is a facility that contains health information based on stages or cycles of human life, starting from pregnant and breastfeeding mothers, infants and toddlers, children, adolescents, adults, to the elderly. “The Mini Life Cycle Museum in the Ayo Sehat Festival 2024 is very good, something like this should be in every province in Indonesia,” said Budi Gunadi Sadikin.
This collaboration is a form of partnership between the Indonesian Ministry of Health and educational institutions in an effort to encourage and optimize the role of various parties in development in the health sector, as well as educate and bring health information closer to the community. In this activity, the iMuseum IMERI FKUI is responsible for health materials as educational materials, museum collections for exhibitions, and human resources as visitor guides.
Acting Dean of FKUI Prof. Dr. dr. Dwiana Ocviyanti, Sp.OG(K), MPH., said, “FKUI continues to be committed to encouraging collaboration with various parties, one of which is the Indonesian Ministry of Health. Through the Mini Life Cycle Museum, we hope to bring health information closer to the community and provide a pleasant and useful experience.”
The design of the Mini Life Cycle Museum is made to resemble the original form of the exhibition space at the iMuseum IMERI FKUI, Salemba, Central Jakarta. At the Mini Museum, there are several activities that can be easily accessed and free of charge by the public, such as the edutainment area that provides information about the human life cycle as well as health screening and immunization that can be done at every stage of the life cycle. This area is also equipped with interactive screens and educational games.
In addition, there is also a Fun Experience area, where visitors can experience exciting experiences, such as a simulation of being a pregnant woman using props; a hearing section through the listen to your health feature, which is a place to listen to health advice according to the key message of each life cycle; Healthy Talk: Janji Hidup Sehat (Healthy Talk: Healthy Life Promise), which is a feature where visitors can convey a healthy life promise through telephone recordings; and a mini theater that shows animated films related to the life cycle.
During the week of the event, more than 3,000 people were recorded visiting the Mini Life Cycle Museum. Visitors were dominated by students who were interested in various knowledge about health and educational facilities at the mini museum.
One of the visitors, Nazwa Fauziah, said that the presence of the mini museum was very interesting and helped her to understand the human life cycle. “Very fun. The presentation was presented clearly and with interesting properties. I became very grateful to be alive and born in the world because the host guided us by explaining the early stages of fertilization, pregnancy, childhood, to adulthood. This made me and my friends realize that the life we live is a gift that must be appreciated,” said Nazwa.
