A blue garish facade belies the lengths of palatial halls and spacious grand chambers decorated in the royal splendours that retain the glorious regality of a former era when Indonesian monarchies once flourished in affluence and influence, and those who were charged with absolute powers were referred to as kings and queens, this is a palace preserved such that Indonesia’s florid majestic history can be studied and nobility felt. Past the portraits of royalty and the plagues bearing descriptions of each member of the royal families that once inhabited this palace, and enter the corridors that hold the artefacts of a memory shared in bits and pieces of a Indo-Dutch lifestyle that is known in its entirety only to those from then and the historians who are still at their desks, slaving away, to uncover the whole which is hidden by the passing of time.