Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Museum and Rumoh Aceh


City of Banda Aceh has a State Museum located in a complex. Museum's main building in the form of a traditional Acehnese house, built in 1914 to Exhibition Venues in Hyderabad, which is then taken home to Banda Aceh in 1915 by Governor Van Swart (Netherlands), which became the Museum. Rumoh Aceh is a narrow fronted houses on stilts which carries within it the entire room is not insulated. Today this museum environment has increased with new buildings that take the motives of Aceh as well as building construction cone-shaped Hall taken from the way that looks Acehnese rice wrapped with banana leaves, called "Bukulah". Bukulah among others served in the banquet-like feast Blang certain festivity, feast Birthday of Prophet Muhammad and so forth.
Museum's new exhibition space, has a 3-storey building, crammed with a collection of archaeological items are laid out well. One collection of this museum is the Great Bell-named "CakraDonya". This bell was a gift from the Kingdom of China long ago that was brought by Admiral Ceng Ho in 1414. Museum front porch has a distinctive shape which also showed wood carvings with motifs of Aceh. Many interesting things in the museum adjacent to the hall of Governors of Aceh was so many schoolchildren who visit each day.
Dikompleks is once again found the tomb of the sultans of Aceh in the past. Tomb of the Sultan in general dinuat from Stone Mountain and decorated with beautiful Arabic Kaligraphi stunning, one of which is the Tomb of Sultan Iskandar Muda.


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