With a building area of about 4.470 that stood on the land area of 3.5 hectares, the museum of the future will also be equipped with a park, parking area, and this plaza to be known as the 'Museum of Merapi Volcano, Merapi Window Earth'.
Volcano Museum can be used as a means of education, information dissemination, particularly aspects of volcanism and other geological disaster to be recreative, educative for the wider community with the aim of providing insight and understanding of the scientific aspects, or socio-cultural and others associated with volcanic and Another source of geological disaster. Volcano Museum is expected to be an alternative solution as a means of great importance and potential as an information service center volcanism in the effort to make people's lives, as well as the media in raising awareness and awareness among the public about the benefits and dangers of the threat of volcanic eruptions and other geological disasters.
Information presented at the volcano museum, among others:
- Scientific information volcanism, seismicity and ground motion which is the dynamics of geological processes, reflected among others in the information model of the formation, formation mechanisms and the processes that accompany it.
- Information is formed as a result of volcanic phenomena-the process of geologic processes, which appear on the surface of the earth, among a landscape of volcanoes, volcanic geological structure, volcanic eruption products, and products of the other processes.
- Information on volcanic hazard mitigation, earthquake, tsunami, land movement that is displayed in the form of information monitoring systems, research and observation, early warning systems and disaster mitigation efforts such as rescue system involving the public against the danger of volcanic eruption, seismicity and ground motion.
- Information resources volcano, as a potential that can be utilized for social welfare, development and other infra-structure.
- Socio-cultural aspects such as information concerning the life, culture / tradition, myth and the other relating to the environment and the presence of a volcano.
