JEATH Museum Kanchanaburi, Thailand

JEATH Museum - darkometer rating : 6 - The oldest of all the Death Railway related museums in Kanchanaburi , Thailand . The strange name is an abbreviation that stands for: Japan , England , Australia / America , Thailand and Holland – nations involved in the building of the Death Railway … but omitting the majority of the Asian forced labourers! > More background info > What there is to see > Location > Access and costs > Time required > Combinations with other dark destinations > Combinations with non-dark destinations > Photos More background info: for history and background info in general see the separate entry for the Death Railway . This is the original JEATH museum – to be distinguished from the Kanchanaburi World War II Museum closer to the Bridge over the River Kwai , which also sometimes uses the legend JEATH, but was established much later and is a jumbled mess (though entertaining for it). The original JEATH museum was founded in 1977 by the abbot of the Wat Chaichumpon temple complex. For many years it was the only place here in which the plight of the POWs working on the Death Railway was commemorated. And for that it deserves credit, even if by now it has been surpassed in quality and state-of-the-art-ness by the newer Thailand-Burma Railway Centre near Kanchanaburi War Cemetery and the Hellfire Pass Museum further north along the old railway line. The JEATH Museum may be a bit faded but is still worth a visit. What there is to see: the museum consists mainly of two long bamboo huts, similar to those that the POW s forced to work on the Death Railway would have been housed in.