Visited Medan's Struggle Museum

Since I was in Medan, me and my highschool friends want to go the struggle museum. Although I have lived there for 17 years, I have never entered the museums. So we decided to do so.

When we arrived at the museums, the door was closed. It was our fault not to check the available time. So we talked to one of the army member and they said that we could entered the museums and there are someone called Mr. Sinaga will guide us. We are so happy that we could enter the museums and having a guide I thought it was amazing to have someone explained to us about everything in the museums.

So the army member open the door and he lead us to the first room. As we walk around, Mr. Sinaga suddenly approached us and asked us to sit around the table in the middle of the room. When he asked us to sit while he was holding a whiteboard marker, our thoughts gone wild. Is he going to ask about the history to test us? Or he will go and explain the history just like that? The truth is he explained us something which is not related to the museums or the history. The whole lectures is kinda awkward. He said we need a strong foundation or else our mind would not be sane. So he hoped when we received his lectures we would have strong foundation. (The lecture took so long that I couldn't enjoy all the museum tour.)

After the lecture we went to the second floor to look around the museum once more before we went back. The second floor contains library, weaponry rooms, and flag rooms. When he was explaining to us in the room full of army flags a group of family from German arrived at the museums and want to take a tour. Mr. Sinaga ended up asking me to translate what he want to explain to the tourists. But in the end I end up telling the tourists the history I read in my school textbooks :"). Not long after that they left and we took a couple pictures before we left the museums. It was a weird experience we had.

If there are people that will explain more about the history in the museums I will be happier then. Maybe the guide has went home as we reached there when it was closed so we shouldn't be expected someone to guide us around. But if Mr. Sinaga and the team is the tour guide and not just the security team, I hope that they would learn English so they could communicate with the tourists who visited the museums.

That's it my experience in Medan's Struggle Museum. Weird ones.

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