ACEH TSUNAMI MUSEUM
Aceh Tsunami Museum
The Aceh Tsunami Museum, located in Banda Aceh, Indonesia,
is a museum designed as a symbolic reminder of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
and tsunami disaster, as well as an educational center and an
emergency disaster shelter in case the area is ever hit by a tsunami again.
The Aceh Tsunami Museum
was designed by Indonesian architect (and future mayor of Bandung) Ridwan
Kamil. The museum is a 2,500 m2 four-story structure; its
long curving walls covered in geometric reliefs. Inside, visitors enter through
a dark, narrow corridor between two high walls of water — meant to
recreate the noise and panic of the tsunami itself.
The museum walls are
adorned with images of people performing the Saman
dance, a symbolic gesture dedicated to the strength, discipline and
religious beliefs of the Acehnese
people. From above, the roof resembles a tsunami. The ground floor is
modelled on the kind of traditional raised Acehnese houses that were best
equipped to survive the tsunami.
The building acknowledges
both the victims, whose names are to be inscribed on the wall of one of the
museum’s internal chambers, and the surviving members of the local community.
In addition to its role
as a memorial for those who died, the museum also offers a place of refuge from
future such events, including an "escape hill" for visitors to run to
in the event of another tsunami.
Exhibitions at the museum
include an electronic simulation of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
and tsunami, in addition to photographs of victims and exhibits featuring
stories from survivors of the disaster.
Adequate funding for the
ongoing maintenance and use of the Aceh Tsunami Museum has not been
forthcoming. The museum is one of a large number of so-called
"tsunami assets", the precise legal ownership of which has been in
dispute between different levels of Indonesian governments since at least 2009.
As of late 2010, the Museum was only open intermittently and was poorly
patronised.
Located at Jalan Iskandar
Muda, Banda Aceh, the museum is open every day (except Friday) at 10:00 to
12:00 and 15:00 to 17:00. The style of this building is quite unique, it has
stage house style or Rumah Panggung, and it resembles a ship with a chimney,
when we see from far.
Inside the museum, you
can find a narrow hallway with rumble noises waterwall on both sides as if to
remind the enormity of the tsunami. Aceh Tsunami Museum displays an electronic
simulation of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, the photographs of the victims
and the stories of the survivors.
The model of the building
is the result of contest winners, who is M.Ridwan Kamil (the Lecturer in
Architecture from Bandung Institute of Technology) with the idea of building,
is Rumoh Aceh as Escape Hill. The museum building plans are analogous to ocean
wave’s tsunami epicenter. The traditional elements such as Tari Saman have been
translated in the outer skin of the building exterior.
This Museum that was
built with Rp 70 billion funds has 2 stairs, where the first floor is an open
area that can be seen from the outside and its function as a place to
commemorate the tsunami. On this floor there are several rooms that contain
tsunami track record in 2004. There is tsunami showroom, pre-Tsunami, the day
of the tsunami and post-tsunami space. Also, there are some pictures of
tsunami, tsunami trace artifacts and dioramas displayed in this floor.
On the 2nd floor
containing instructional media in the form of a library, props, space 4D, and a
souvenir shop. Some props are displayed among other things; the design of
earthquake-resistant buildings, as well as a model diagram of the earth fault.
There are some facilities continue to be refined as space disaster painting,
diorama, libraries, 4-dimensional space, as well as cafe.
The exterior of the
museum is to express cultural diversity of Aceh with decorative ornament
element of transparency such as bamboo weaving. The interior view will lead you
to the contemplation of the devastating disaster suffered by the people of Aceh
as well surrender and recognition of the strength and power of God.
Aceh Tsunami Museum was
built on the initiative of several institutions like the Reconstruction Agency
for Aceh and Nias, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Government of
Aceh, the Government of Banda Aceh and the Indonesian Architects Association.
The museum was
inaugurated in February 2008. The purpose of development in addition to the
memory of the earthquake that led to the 2004 tsunami as well as well as being
an educational center and as a center for evacuation if the tsunami comes
again. At that time the tsunami in 2004 killed more than 120 thousand people,
and becames the national tragedy of all time.
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