The history of the Aceh aceh museum

Museum of TsunamiAceh was originally to be made in the form of a large ship and intended only as a storage of all documentation related to natural disaster December 26, 2004. In order for 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.

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. The Aceh Tsunami Museum is a museum to commemorate the massive tsunami events that hit Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam on 26 December 2008, which claimed approximately 240,000 victims.

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 other half from the Department of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) for their contents also contains various relics of the remaining tsunami.

Before the commencement of the commencement of the committee organized a museum design competition with Thema "Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Tsunami Museum (NAD-TM)", the contest closed on August 5, 2007 with prizes totaling Rp 275 million with details of winner I get Rp 100 million, II to Rp 75 million, to the third Rp 50 million and the remaining Rp 50 million will be distributed as participation awards to 5 innovative designs @ Rp 10 million. The Aceh Tsunami Museum was built in the city of Banda Aceh approximately 1 km from the Banda Aceh Raya Mosque

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