Holiday Ayo - To commemorate the 2004 tsunami, a museum called the Tsunami Museum in Banda Aceh was established. The Museum building has adopted the traditional raised Aceh House, while at the same time it resembles a ship with its protruding funnel.

As cited from IamIndonesia, building the museum had cost about IDR70 billion and consists of 2 floors. The first floor is an open space area that serves as a reminder of the tsunami disaster.

This museum is divided into several rooms, starting from the tsunami hallway, memory room, prayer well, chimney passage, to the bridge of hope.

Entering the tsunami hallway, you can hear the roar of water and run that reminds visitors of the coming tsunami at that time. This aisle is known as the space of fear.

Then, in the memory room, you will see 26 monitors which symbolize the tsunami incident at that time, namely December 26, 2004. Each monitor displays photos and pictures of tsunami victims.

You can also see a cylindrical prayer well. The height of this wall is about 30 meters and there are 2 thousand names who are victims of the tsunami disaster at that time.

Next, there is a chimney room where you can see a hallway designed with a winding floor.

The meaning of the design is the confusion, fear, and despair felt by the people of Aceh at that time. After that, there is a bridge of hope where you can see 54 flags from 54 countries that helped the Acehnese people affected by the tsunami. On each flag is written the word peace according to the language of each country.

Operational Hours
The Aceh Tsunami Museum is open daily (except Friday) from 10.00 - 12.00 noon, and 15.00-17.00 West Indonesia Time.

Get There
The Aceh Tsunami Museum is located at Iskandar Muda Street in the heart of the city of Banda Aceh, near the Simpang Jam, the Clock tower Intersection. It is situated near the Blang Padang Field, next to the Dutch Cemetery or Kerkhof Peutjut.