Thailand–Burma Railway Centre
History
Rod Beattie is the museum's curator and is originally from Queensland, Australia, but has spent at least a decade living in Kanchanburi and uncovering abandoned sections of the railway.
Layout
At the start of the museum is the introduction area located under a mockup of a wooden bridge constructed with the same techniques that were used to creat bridges on the Burma railway. The area describes the Japanese invasion of Southeast Asia and the transportation of POWs to Burma and Thailand. The end of the area is a mockup of a boxcar used to transport POWs. Through the boxcar is the area that describes the planning, construction and logistics of building the railway and contains relics of tools used to built the railway recovered from the late 1990s. Subsequent sections of the museum describes the geography, living conditions, deaths and the end of the railway.
Gallery
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Mosaic in the cafe
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Medical scene
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Humanitas mosaic
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Boxcar with POWs