This is because a particular museum has provided through exhibitions sum of all matters relating to the area where the museum is located. The museum also displays and deliver something to the visitors either through evidence of real (tangible) form of property (artifacts) as well as things that are not tangible (intangible) of the messages, myths, or stories about certain area which is usually listed on the label objects on display.

The things above apply also to the State Museum of North Sulawesi province or which often referred to as the National Museum of Manado. This museum is a public museum for what is displayed representing the culture and history of the local communities of North Sulawesi, the history of pre-and Postcolonialism, mixing culture with Chinese society and the Dutch who settled in North Sulawesi, and so forth. Therefore, this museum is an educational vehicle that is valuable to the North because he was trying to document the important things in North Sulawesi through object-object that threatened from extinction.

If a tourist is only allocated less than a week to explore North Sulawesi, it should stop at the State Museum of North Sulawesi province to see what the history and culture of the people in the region.

State Museum of North Sulawesi province when judging from its name is the museum who want to document all matters relating to the Province of North Sulawesi. Because it was built to represent the culture, history and art of North Sulawesi region, then the benefits of this museum is in the scope of his collection. Then when viewed from the design and structure of the building, the museum adopted the model of the design-build custom homes Minahasa.
In this museum, visitors can see and hear an explanation from the museum guide about what is displayed in the exhibition spaces. Exhibition halls are divided into three floors, all mengeksposisi all matters related to the people of North Sulawesi.

Tourists can see the replica and authentic objects in the museum's status as the country. For example, a replica of the tomb stone waruga or crates that are characteristic of material culture Minahasa society past to present. In addition, at the park museum also placed a few examples of the stone sarcophagus which is a relic of ancient civilization in North Sulawesi. Museum visitors also will find aisle display layout and clothing worn in the Minahasa traditional marriage. Then, tourists can find relics of the army cannon Netherlands and Portugal and the ceramic typical Chinese nation on the third floor. This museum provides a museum guide who have English language skills. The museum also has a library. In addition, the discounted ticket price will be imposed if the number of visitors in a group of more than 20 people, such as school and university tours.

When tourists are in the city of Manado, the tourists can use a taxi or microbus that easy to find along the streets in the city of Manado to arrive at the museum. The museum is open every Sunday through Friday at 8 am to 4 pm