Tsunami Museum Banda Aceh

Tsunami Museum, Banda Aceh - darkometer rating : 7 - The main site in Indonesia for commemorating, and educating people about, the disastrous 2004 tsunami that laid large parts of Banda Aceh to waste. The architectural design is such that it can also serve as an escape building should another tsunami hit. The exhibitions inside the museum took a long time to be developed but today are definitely worth a good look. > More background info > What there is to see > Location > Access and costs > Time required > Combinations with other dark destinations > Combinations with non-dark destinations > Photos More background info: in general see under Banda Aceh . The development of this museum has been accompanied by controversy and bickering about money and responsibilities, in typical Indonesian fashion, but the outcome is now absolutely worth it for dark tourists to visit. The museum was first opened in 2009, even though at that point it was largely empty. The exhibition space is now used to reasonably good effect, though. For years there had been criticism that the exhibition was patchy, low-key, underdeveloped, poorly maintained, and so on and so forth. It still isn't on a contemporary Western hi-tech level, but much closer to it than I was led to expect. OK, some interactive elements didn't work, but you can encounter that even in top-notch Western museums as well. There was certainly little space left unused, and the mix of displays and media was pretty good, especially by Indonesian standards. So I reckon lots must have been done in recent times to get it up to scratch … maybe with the 10th anniversary of the disaster in 2014 in mind. The architecture of the museum has never been much contested. It has indisputably added another key landmark to the city of Banda Aceh .