Good evening and meet me again @riyat. It's been four days since I made a post because of the disaster that befell me, my mother passed away on April 1, 2025, precisely at night, this made me very frustrated so I chose to take a break and try to get through this difficult time first by trying to do some things that make me feel better.
On this occasion I will share my experience when I visited the Aceh Museum which is located in the center of Banda Aceh city, as I said before in the museum area there are four buildings and each building has its own meaning and function. On this occasion I will take my time to share my experience when I explored the traditional Acehnese house.
This is the front appearance of a traditional Acehnese house, this house is famous for its unique rectangular shape and 99% of the building is made of wood. The traditional Acehnese house is a rectangular stilt house that is built on poles so that it can be seen from various angles. The traditional Acehnese house is also quite high from the ground so that the space below it can also be passed without having to bend down, although there are some Acehnese houses that are not too high, and this also has its functions and purposes, including to avoid flooding, disturbances from wild animals, and disturbances from people who want to do evil.
When viewed from the side, this house looks elongated, namely from the front extending to the back, this house is very unique especially in the architectural part of the building which is very traditional. For the current era, it will be very difficult to find or see a typical Acehnese house and can only be found in certain places, one of which is in the Aceh museum area, although the shape and size are not exactly the same as the original typical Acehnese house, but it can be concluded that the similarity is almost 80% with the original.
At first I did not know whether this traditional house could be entered or not, but after asking the officer there, it turned out that visitors were allowed to enter the traditional house. According to the information I got, to enter this traditional Acehnese house you can go through the steps at the front door of this house, but at that time I did not see any stairs at the front door, but at the back door.
I saw that there was only one staircase behind this house, so after finding it, I immediately went up and couldn't wait to see what was inside this traditional Acehnese house.
As soon as I entered this house, I immediately got lost. When I was in this house, I didn't know where the living room, kitchen, and family room were, because in my eyes, everything seemed to be in the same place. Moreover, at that time there were no officers in the house, so I just explored the house alone.In this room I could see something that looked like a living room, because there were several small mats on the floor and they were also arranged in a row.
In addition, in this room there are also several antiques stored safely in a glass room.
The shape is like a cup or something, basically all of these objects are antiques and historical items for Aceh. This is all I could find in this room, so I immediately looked for another door and hoped to find another room.
Being in a different room, I immediately found other historical objects, starting from Kopiah (traditional Acehnese hat), decorative glass in the room, to traditional Acehnese weapons called Rencong.
I kept walking until I was surprised to see a room that was most likely a bedroom.
In this bedroom I saw a bed with a mosquito net on top and it was intended to keep mosquitoes out, I also found a mirror, a candle holder made of brass and a seat under the bed. Entering this house managed to hypnotize me because I thought as if I was in the past.
Coming out of this room, I arrived in the kitchen area, which again also looked very traditional, even the place for cooking they still use is a place that looks a little old-fashioned.
In this era there was still no electricity, sadly people at that time only relied on candles or torches for lighting at night, maybe that sounds very difficult but it would definitely be very nice if you could experience it.
After leaving the kitchen, I immediately decided to leave this traditional Acehnese house, because there was still one more building that I wanted to explore, namely the Temporary Exhibition Building.
This is the last building that I have not explored in the Aceh museum area, from the front of the building it also looks very tempting and makes me very curious to immediately enter it, as soon as I entered I immediately showed my entrance ticket, after that I was immediately invited to enter and start doing my task, namely capturing every moment in this building.
To be honest, I don't really understand the contents of this building. I saw a lot of fabrics that had beautiful and amazing batik patterns. Maybe this building is a place to exhibit sewing art in the form of several beautiful fabrics. Let's find out.
And in this building I also managed to find traditional tools for making cloth.
After trying to find out about the contents of this building, I still didn't get any interesting information, especially about the cloth, I really didn't understand.I didn't stay long in this building, after capturing every moment, I immediately decided to leave this building.
History remains history, and it is not easy to learn history because it requires patience, a strong goal and persistence.Well, those are some pictures and stories from me in this post, I really hope that this post can provide entertainment for all of my friends. All of these pictures are purely my own, I took this picture using an Infinix 10 Pro cellphone and edited this picture using the Lightroom application.
