Locals upset over museum move

NAKHON PATHOM
Locals upset over museum move
The Sunday Nation

People in Nakhon Pathom intend to protest in the middle of this month against the Fine Arts Department's plan to move 1,873 ancient items out of the province's Phra Phathom National Museum to the Uthong National Museum in Suphan Buri province instead. The museum would be closed and its personnel would be transferred to Suphan Buri.

Claiming the ancient items found there must stay there and that the department had not consulted the locals about this plan, some 100 people at yesterday's meeting at the Nakhon Pathom Teacher Cooperative said they would protest in front of the Nakhon Pathom Museum.

Provincial councillor Surachai Anutthato said that if the state agency was not in a position to take care of the heritage, they should transfer the responsibility of the museum to the local body.

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-- The Nation 2015-05-03