Museum-trace of civilisation

All across the Europe from 20-21 September is known as the "heritage Day" or what the french say as 'Journée Européenne du Patrimoine ' this is a special day where all the heritage or legacy of the past that we could still find in the present day, and that will include museums, monuments, historical sites, and many things that consider to be having historical value, and of all those things mentioned above is open for public for free..yes for 2 full day, so we don't have to pay to get into a famous museum or other places that contain a historical values. And I use this valuable times to visit two sites here in Rochefort that considered to be historical by local people or maybe by the whole people all over France, the first will be the house of Pierre Lotti (La Maison de Pierre Loti) and the second is The Transporter Bridge (Le Pont Transbordeur)both of those location is sited in the small city of Rochefort, which is situated in western of France. And now let get into the interesting part of the story, for the first place is the house of Pierre Lotti, for those who have no idea who this person is.. this is a very well known writer of modern France, he is also a voyager and a French navy (Marine nationale), after he finished his journey mainly to the pacific and region Maghribi (arab), he dedicated his house as a place of attraction and latter as a museum, this house is not too big just as size of medium house in France..but this is something that surprised me...the visitor that came that day is...we could say fully reserved...and we have to make a reservation a day in advance before we can get into the house (in addition we could not take any picture inside of the house..so sad), infact there are 5 of our friends that came a little late are not allowed to get in because they already give the seats to another visitor who happens to be in line to enter that particular house...so you can imagine, how high is the level of appreciation being given by the Frenchs to an old fashioned house that filled with personal belongings, and the past owner happen to be a very well known writer. The second will be the transporter bridge that some of us will think that this bridge have a unique..if we can't say bizzare structure and architecture, it has a gondola below of the main structure that used to carry many things from peoples to a vehicles,and it is moving from one side of the river to another back and forth..so the river still can be used as a traffic for a passing ships that toward the sea or back from it, but then again it's historical and have a very high value in the history, it was built before the World War I, and now the function of this odd bridge has been replaced by the new viaduct that across not far from the historical bridge, and in this particular day peoples are coming there for just a sightseeing and visiting the small museum dedicated to the bridge that contain the whole history of the bridge, and once again I was stunned of the appreciation of the peoples that came to that site, there's a whole bunch of people were coming just to take a walk or passing time with family and friends. And now we are coming to the ironic part of this story..when we compare it to the heritage in our beloved country Indonesia...maybe without further explanation we all already know what happen to the heritage in Indonesia how the peoples' appreciation towards it, do you see a museum full of people? do you see a place which has a historical background visited oftenly by peoples..okay maybe there are some visitors but if they aren't some students doing their research or it could a small part of people who really appreciate the values,and that mostly in a place that very popular such as the temple of Borobudur and the palace of Yogyakarta hadiningrat, but in general the level of appreciation is not high enough because there are more sites that unknown by most of our own people...such as (bet most of you don't know this site....) the antropologic site of Sangiran, the candi arjuna in Dieng, and the museum of Trowulan Mojokerto, and there's even more historical sites that hasn't been updated and listed by the historical service of Indonesia, okay that is the ancient heritage now..I don't want to get too far let just say the house of Bung Karno in Blitar that nearly sold by the family, and how about the house of Bung Hatta...anyone know what is the condition right now??so it's Ironic when we say all the time to ourselves that our nation is a great nation that appreciate their heroes...Then let me take you back to the house of Pierre Loti..he is not even a countryman nor politician of France..he just a famous writer and happen to be a great voyager with a whole lot of story and imagination on his mind..but see what happen to his house, it has become of the museum very well known in France..where many people come every time just to see what is in that particular house and they protect the house from any other interest such as bussiness interest etc. While in our country..a historical site is not more important than a new shopping center that densely crowded the city with another mall that already have a numberous amount of them, an example to be taken..in Surabaya just nearby the Heroes Monument there are an ancient hospital building that was build in the time of colonial and now being converted to a particular mall, and this has becoming a trend that slowly eaten the historical sites and values that still remaining. Don't let ourselves get panic when there are nothing left for us to cry, when everything has been vanished...left us to cry why we don't have the awareness to protect it from the beginning.
Okay enough for the irony...let me take you back across to France, so there I am after the visit I get the chance to see the news and it said that there are a enormous increase in numbers of the visitor to the museum (maybe they are similar to Indonesians which used the "free of charge" chances to visit the places that used to be charged!!hehe all the peoples across the worlds is just the same)and it even breaking the records of the number of visitor coming to the museums all across France....isn't that just incredible how the people of France appreciating their heritage and remembering what kind of greatness they have in the past, and keep them alive with the one of the greatest civilization on earth. I wish that our people can grow such awareness...wer are too will be a great nation indeed.