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Mon Feb-23-09 11:06 AM
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Tsunami museum opens in Indonesia

Source: BBC

A museum commemorating the victims of the 2004 Asian tsunami has opened in the Indonesian province of Aceh.

It has been designed as a symbolic reminder of the disaster, as well as an educational centre.

It will also serve as an emergency disaster shelter in case the area is ever hit by a tsunami again.

Aceh was home to more than half the 240,000 people who died in the disaster. The outpouring of aid which followed was the largest in history.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7905770.stm

I find it kind of neat that it doubles as an emergency shelter.

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