The Tsunami Museum is a museum to recall the devastating events that once hit Aceh on December 26, 2004, which claimed more than 240,000 lives. The museum is located on Jalan Sultan Iskandar Muda near Simpang Jam and opposite the Blang Padang Square in Banda Aceh. Building this museum is supposedly designed by a lecturer architecture ITB Bandung, M. Ridwan Kamil. The design entitled Rumoh Aceh as Escape Hill takes the basic idea of Aceh's rumoh that is the traditional house of Aceh people in the form of a house building on stilts. The purpose of this museum construction is not only to be a monument building, but also as a historical object, where this building becomes the center of research and learning about tsunami disaster as a symbol of the strength of the people of Aceh in the face of the tsunami disaster. In addition, this building is expected to be a legacy for future generations of Aceh as a message and a lesson that the tsunami once hit Aceh that has swallowed many victims. The construction of this museum has spent budget of 140 billion rupiah.
The building of this museum consists of 4 levels with decoration decoration nuanced islam. From the outside it can be seen that this building is shaped like a ship, with a flare upright standing on it. The exceptional exterior look that expresses Aceh's cultural diversity can be seen from the decorative ornaments of the transparency element of the outer skin elements of the building. This ornament symbolizes saman dance as a reflection of Hablumminannas, which is the concept of human relations in Islam.