[1] The Aceh Tsunami Museum was designed by Indonesian architect Ridwan Kamil former governor of West Java.

The museum is a 2,500 m2 (27,000 sq ft) four-story structure; its long curving walls are covered in geometric reliefs.

Inside, visitors enter through a dark, narrow corridor between two high walls of water — meant to recreate the noise and panic of the tsunami itself.

The ground floor is modelled on the kind of traditional raised Acehnese houses that were best equipped to survive the tsunami.

[1] The building acknowledges both the victims, whose names are to be inscribed on the wall of one of the museum's internal chambers, and the surviving members of the local community.