Aceh Tsunami Museum (Musium Tsunami Aceh)

Aceh Tsunami Museum is a museum in Banda Aceh designed as a symbolic monument to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami disaster as well as an education center and emergency shelter if the tsunami occurs again.

Aceh Tsunami Museum was designed by architect from Bandung, West Java, Ridwan Kamil. This museum is a four-storey structure with an area of ​​2500 m² whose curved walls are covered by geometric reliefs. In it, visitors enter through a narrow and dark passageway between two high water walls to recreate the atmosphere and panic of the tsunami. The museum walls are adorned with pictures of Saman dancing people, a symbolic meaning to the religious power, discipline and religious belief of the Acehnese. From the top, the roof formed a wave of the sea. The ground floor is designed like a traditional Aceh stage house that survived the tsunami.

The building commemorates the victims, whose names are inscribed on the walls of one of the museum's deepest rooms, and the survivors of this disaster.

In addition to its role as a memorial to the dead, this museum is also useful as a refuge for such disasters in the future, including "refugee hills" for visitors if a tsunami occurs again.