America's North Shore Journal » Aceh province http://northshorejournal.org An on-line magazine supporting the Ninth Amendment Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:37:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Indonesia Opens Tsunami Museum http://northshorejournal.org/indonesia-opens-tsunami-museum http://northshorejournal.org/indonesia-opens-tsunami-museum#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:10:41 +0000 Chuck Simmins http://northshorejournal.org/?p=10576

Indonesia has opened a $5.6 million museum to commemorate the 230,000 people who died in the 2004 Asian tsunami.

The four-level building in hardest-hit Aceh province exhibits photographs of victims, stories of survivors and an electronic simulation of the massive undersea earthquake that triggered the 30-foot-high waves.

It also describes the tremendous outpouring of support from governments, companies and individuals in the aftermath of the Dec. 26, 2004 disaster, which caused death and destruction in a dozen nations.

More than $13 billion was pledged to house and feed survivors and to rebuild devastated coasts.

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