Museum Kretek

Tourism Kretek Museum is located about 3 km to the south of the city center Holy, precisely in the Village District Getas Pejaten Jati Kudus.
Kretek Museum was built as a symbol of the Kudus City as Kretek, based on the idea of the Governor of Central Java at the time, H. Soepardjo Roestam and inaugurated the opening on 3 October 1986 by the Minister of Home Affairs in the Republic of Indonesia, H. Soepardjo Roestam. Museum Kretek goals is to present a collection of things related to the development of the Cigarette companies as an effort to increase entrepreneurship values of the past and the present time and to be enhanced in the future. Thus the younger generation on the current and future are expected to have a strong entrepreneurship spirit.
Kretek Museum is the place to reconstruct the history of the Kudus Rokok Kretek era glory King Rokok Kretek Holy, Niti Semito, the cigarette industry with the development of the modern era Holy now. So have the Museum Kretek function as a means of education, research and recreation.
Museum Kretek store various equipment and machinery making traditional Cigarette smoking klobot and promotion of cigarettes and facilities at that time. In addition, visitors can also observe the photographs documenting the history of the track Cigarette Holy and can also observe "diorama" which describes: the production process with the traditional hand (without tools) and the production of cigarettes Giling hand, which resulted in a Cigarette smoking and klobot; and the production of filtered cigarettes with modern machinery. In addition there is a diorama depicts the process of planting and processing of raw materials Cigarette (tobacco, cloves, corn and klobot).

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