On its website, after the results of the poll had been announced, TripAdvisor said the Hellfire Pass Museum was an unmissable cultural highlight for anyone with even the slightest interest in history or the infamous Siam to Burma railway track. The statement also said that the museum had placed fifth in the rankings for Asia.
Media reporters quoted TripAdvisor’s marketing boss, Barbara Messing, as saying that the awards were a reflection of the choices of millions of international travellers who were asked to name cultural institutions that had aroused their interest. TripAdvisor undertook a complex process of collating reviews over the past year to decide on the eventual winners for each of the Travellers’ Choice categories.
The Hellfire Pass Museum opened in 1998 and is dedicated to explaining the reasons behind the Death Railway and the hardships the Allied prisoners of war and Asian labourers endured while building it. Hellfire Pass was one of the most difficult parts of the rail link and saw some of the heaviest losses of life.
TripAdvisor names Hellfire Pass as top Thai museum
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Recently released awards by TripAdvisor placed Kanchanaburi’s Hellfire Pass Museum as the number one museum in Thailand. The global travel website said that the Travellers’ Choice nominations had garnered the Death Railway memorial the accolade.