Exploring the Tsunami Museum

Tsunami Museum is a museum recalls the devastating events that have ever hit Aceh on December 26, 2004, which killed more than 240,000 people. The museum is located at Jalan Sultan Iskandar Muda near Simpang Jam and opposite the Blang Padang city of Banda Aceh. The museum building is said to be designed by an architecture professor ITB, M. Ridwan Kamil. Design titled Escape Hill Rumoh Aceh as it took the basic idea rumoh Aceh is the traditional home of the Acehnese as building houses on stilts. The purpose of the construction of the museum is not just a building monument, but also as an object of history, where this building became a center for research and learning about the tsunami disaster in Aceh community as a symbol of strength in the face of the tsunami disaster. In addition, the building is expected to be a legacy for

future generations of Aceh as a message and a lesson that never hit Aceh tsunami that has claimed many victims. The construction of this museum has cost 140 billion dollars.

The museum building consists of 4 levels with islamic ornament decoration. Can be seen from the outside of the building is shaped like a ship, with a flare mencu standing upright on it. Outstanding exterior appearance that expresses the cultural diversity of Aceh looks of decorative ornament element of transparency outer skin of the building elements. This ornament symbolizes saman dance as a reflection Hablumminannas, namely the concept of human relationships in Islam.

On the ground floor there is a museum open space that can be used as a public space. The floor is made to rise which aims as escape hill, a hill-shaped garden can be used as a location anticipation rescue in case of floods and the tsunami disaster in the future. Each floor (measuring 25 meters x 20 meters) can accommodate thousands of people in an emergency.

Upon entering the building, which will be visited first room visitors are space afterthought. In this room there is a narrow hallway and lit at the same time be able to listen to the sound of water flowing along with the call to prayer. On the left and right walls of the hallway there is flowing water which is like the roar tsunami that happened in the past.

After passing through the room reflections, museum visitors will enter a room filled memorial hill which is equipped with a monitor that can be used to access information about the tsunami that hit Aceh on 26 December 2004.

After the memorial hall hill, visitors will enter the space The Light of God, which is a well-shaped chamber cylinder dim yellowish light shined. At the height of the room look GOD written form of Arabic calligraphy in a circle. On the walls of this room filled with writing the names of tsunami victims who died in the big event. The building that resembles this tower contains religious values are a reflection of hablumminallah (ie the concept of man's relationship with God). This room also gives access to the second level of the museum building tsunami.

While on the second floor is a space-space access to multimedia such as audio space and a 4-dimensional space, showrooms tsunamis (tsunami exhibition room), space pre-tsunami, while stunami, and post-tsunami.

On the 3rd floor Tsunami Museum, there are several facilities such as geological space, library, Musalla, and souvenirs. In geological space, visitors can obtain information on the disaster, how the earthquake and tsunami, through the explanation of some displays and simulation tools contained in the room.

At the end of the building Tsunami Museum, functioned as an escape building or escape when a tsunami occurs again in the future. Roof level is not open to the public for considering the concept of safety and security. From this roof level, almost the entire area of the city of Banda Aceh can be seen from the top of the building.