The war Museum in Kanchanaburi province is one of two devoted to the construction of the world famous “road of death” - a railway from Thailand to Myanmar, built by the Japanese on the bones of prisoners of war during the Second world war.

The Museum was founded in 1977 by the Abbot and venerable monk of Wat Chaicumpa venerable Phra Teppanyaki. It is located on one of the spans of at least the famous bridge over the river Kwai, which is part of the Thai-Burma railway.

The abbreviation in the title of the Museum “JEATH” is formed from the first letters of the Nations whose representatives gave their lives for the construction of the project: Japanese (Japanese), English (English), Australians (Australian), Americans (American), Thai (Thai) and Dutch (Holland). In Thai language, the name of the military Museum sounds like Wat tai.

The Museum is divided into two zones, these historians have tried to recreate the atmosphere that prevailed in the construction of the death railway. The architecture of the Museum is a reconstructed bamboo hut, in which lived prisoners. It contains their paintings, photographs and drawings, as well as the tools for the job. Preserved and interviews with some prisoners recorded their relatives and friends, describing the atrocities occurring with detailed precision without embellishment. In the Museum you can see the look of the whole province in the difficult years of the Second world war.