The Aceh Tsunami Museum was originally to be in the form of a large ship and was intended only as a storage of all documentation related to the natural disaster of December 26, 2004. In order for the future generations of Aceh and Indonesia to know that there has been a terrible event in this rencong earth.
But then the plan changed, the Aceh Government together with BRR NAD-Nias held a competition for the design of the tsunami museum. After setting aside 68 other participants, the design entitled "Rumoh Aceh'as Escape Hill" was finally won by an ITB architecture lecturer, Bandung, M.Ridwan Kamil announced on August 17, 2007.
The Aceh Tsunami Museum, located in front of Blang Padang Square, Banda Aceh, has three floors, each with a floor area of 2,500 meters and costs up to Rp60 billion more. Ridwan Kamil architectural scratches, loaded with the value of local wisdom and designed with the concept memimesis the ship, like to proclaim Banda Aceh is a water city instead of the mainland.# header.
Inside the building there is a beautiful large pool with a bridge above it. In addition, there is a room that is represented as a dark cave and there is a flow of water flow The concept offered by this architect, by combining rumoh Aceh (rumoh type stage) mated to the concept of escape building hill or hills to save yourself, sea waves or tsunami wave analogues, traditional saman dance, the light of God, as well as open-concept garden of urban society.
The land provided by the Aceh government is also directly adjacent to the Kerkhoff cemetery complex, but the contents and fittings are provided by the Department of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM), the Aceh government and the Banda Aceh City Government. Aceh Tsunami Museum is a Museum to commemorate the massive tsunami events that hit Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam on December 26, 2008 which claimed approximately 240,000 0rang
Aceh Tsunami Museum building was built on the initiative of several institutions that also concurrently the committee. Among the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency (BRR) of NAD-Nias as building budget, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (DESDM) as a budget for planning, content study and provision of museum collections and museum management guidelines), the Government of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) as a provider of land and museum managers, the Municipal Government of Banda Aceh as a provider of environmental facilities and infrastructure of museums and Ikatan Arsitek Indonesia (IAI) NAD branch that helps organizing contest prarencana museum
The detailed planning of the Museum, the site and the tsunami monument will start in August 2006 and the construction will be built on a land of approximately 10,000 square located in the capital of Nanggroes Aceh Darussalam province, namely the Municipality of Banda Aceh with a budget of around Rp 140 billion with details of Rp 70 billion from the Agency Rehabilitation and Reconstruction (BRR) for buildings and the remaining half from the Department of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) for its contents also contains various relics of the remaining tsunami.
Sebelum pembangunan dimulai panitia menyelenggarakan lomba design museum dengan Thema "Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Tsunami Museum (NAD-TM)", lomba yang ditutup tanggal 5 Agustus 2007 berhadiah Total Rp 275 juta dengan rincian pemenang I mendapatkan Rp 100 juta,ke II Rp 75 juta,ke III Rp 50 juta dan sisanya Rp 50 juta akan dibagikan sebagai penghargaan partisipasi kepada 5 design inovatif @ Rp 10 juta. Museum Tsunami Aceh dibangun di kota Banda Aceh kira-kira 1 km dari Masjid Raya Banda Aceh,
The function of the Aceh Tsunami Museum
- Over history, where the tsunami museum will be the center for research and learning about the tsunami disaster.
- Being a symbol of the strength of Acehnese society in the face of the tsunami disaster.
- Beginning from future generations in Aceh in the form of messages in the tsunami-affected areas.
- To remind the dangers of the earthquake and tsunami disaster in operation in Indonesia. This brings Indonesia to the Pacific Ring of Fire, a volcanic belt, and a path full of Pacific Basins. The area of the fire ring is an area that is often hit by an earthquake that can attack the tsunami.
Tsunami museum is not only designed as a place to learn as well as tsunami tsunami. The building is designed with a combination of the concept of the hill of self-salvation, tsunami amok analogy, saman dance, light of God also the open garden concept of urban society can also be used as a place to save themselves during the tsunami, because the roof is a large open space is specially designed.