Aceh Tsunami Museum

is a museum in Banda Aceh that was designed as a symbolic monument to the disaster of the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami December 26, 2004. Founded in 2009, the location of Banda Aceh, Indonesia. For its own design the Aceh Tsunami Museum was designed by an architect from Bandung, West Java, Ridwan Kamil. This museum is a four-story structure with an area of 2,500 m² whose arch walls are covered with geometric reliefs. Inside, visitors enter through a narrow and dark passageway between two walls of high water - to recreate the atmosphere and panic during the tsunami.

The museum walls are decorated with images of people dancing Saman, a symbolic meaning of the Acehnese tribal strength, discipline and religious beliefs. From above, the roof forms ocean waves. The ground floor is designed like an Aceh traditional stage house that survived the tsunami. And this building has a tall monument in the monument that is written in part of the names of tsunami victims in 2004.