The interesting collection in this room reflects the history of Indonesia between the 16th and 19th centuries. As well as European and Indonesian canons, objects include European furniture, a bust of sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, which was a gift from the Raffles Museum, Singapore, and a locked treasure chest whose contents are still unknown today. The room is decorated with large, wooden beams on the ceiling and Javanese-style carved doors, which once belonged to the Red Shop (Toko Merah), a store in Jalan Kali Besar, Kota, the area formerly known as Old Batavia.

In 1972, the majority of the exhibits in this collection were moved to the History Museum (Museum Sejarah DKI) in the old Stadhius building but many of the items that were returned to Indonesia by Dutch government in 1978 are still kept in this room.

The room was once used as the directors' meeting room, when the Museum was still called Museum van de Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen (Museum for the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences) and it occasionally serves the same purpose today.