10 year memorial and remembrance
November 2014
Filming ZDF, German national television program at the museum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci4guIGaQ2I
November / December 2014
Visit by photographer Sam Pickett for making his documentary
Request: Anybody who is in Sri Lanka around the memorial time
May 2014
PHOTO AND GIRL REUNITED AFTER 9 YEARS!
A girl was traced who's photo was in the tsunami suitcase. After losing the photo during the Tsunami. first father could take a look and confirmed it was his daughter and later also the girl came. This was worth seeing and worth keeping the suitcase for
TSUNAMI SUITCASE returns to Sri Lanka after a 9 years trip to Holland.
I took it back to Holland, after cleaning in de tsunami affected villages, to keep save and keep it for the future. The suitcase was shown in some exhibitions. I was happy to finally bring it back to the tsunami photo museum Telwatta in Sri Lanka.
PS Jacky Chan was my temporary name that time
Art work 2005 with Tsunami suitcase
***************Donations **************
17th of January 2009 - From a fundraising activity we managed to collect € 1.300,= euro for the Tsunami Photo Museum in Sri Lanka.
We organised a model drawing/painting evening for 40 proffessional and amature artists. It was a very inspireing evening with 3 live musicians, 14 models and 5 art teachers, all these people donated their time for free. It was a great succes and onthe wish of the public we are going to organise it every year now.
26th of November 2008 - From the donations of an exhibiton in Hilversum The Netherlands, we recieved € 50,= , thanks to all who donated :-)
*************** Museum Colaboration *******************
10th of November 2008 - We are glad to announce that since the 7th of November 2008 we have agreed to start a partnership/collaboration with the "Watersnood Museum" in the province Zeeland in the Netherlands.
This museum commemorates and remembers the "Watersnood" (the flood disaster) of February the 1st in 1953. It was set up by a group of volunteers that experienced the flood themselves. Main aim of the museum is commemoration and remembrance. Besides this they want to share the stories of the past with the next generations.
The museum tries to portray the circumstances of the flood which occurred on February the 1st in the year 1953. Also we experience how people build up their lives from scratch and how aidworkers from all over the world came to help. The museum is situated in one of the four Phoenix-caissons that were used to close the last breach in the dike at Ouwerkerk. The closure took place on 6 November 1953.
The museum acquired the status of a provisional registered museum on 11 October 2005. The museum's donors are known as "Friends of the Watersnoodmuseum". They provide considerable assistance and support. The museum has been able to remain open thanks to the efforts of numerous volunteers.
In our joined forces we like to exchange our experiences and expand our relations. Although their disaster was 55 years ago there are a huge amount of simalarities, and we can learn a lot from their skills. Also we want to exchange museum items for temporary exhibitions to show the other part of the world what happend.
Their website is: http://www.watersnoodmuseum.nl/en_GB/index.html
*********** Next work period Sri Lanka ***************
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1st of November 2008- In the beginning of next year in the months February and March I will be going back to Sri Lanka again to continue the work on the exibition in the museum. At the moment I have started with the preparations: finishing this website and organising fundraising activities. Although the museum is open there is still lots to do !!
- The museum needs a toilet for the visitors, as most of them have been travelling for some time whilst they get there. We also need to have water so people can wash their hands and fresh up.
- Due to the starting budget of the museum, we started with very little budget to build the museum. That's why half of the museum is built permanent, but the other half of the museum is built temporary. We need to take down the temporary parts and build is permanent so it will keep for the longer term. At the moment we are still buying plastic to cover the walls on the outside to protect the photo material from the water coming inside the museum, which happens frequently. Also the temporary parts are to dark because of the plastic. When we build permanent we can add windows which make the space more light so people can see the pictures better.
- The signboard on the road didn't make it through the last rain season, so it had to be replaced by a new one.
- Because of the climate and the sea that is so close, some museum items have to be replaced already after one year.
- All the time we are collecting new material for the museum. This material has to be printed and laminated to develop the exhibition.
- We want to collect more stories from the people which we want to exhibit in the museum as well.
- We need to work on the publicity for the museum so more people will find their way to see it.
- The museum has a lot of photos, but we would like to add more texts to inform the visitors better about what has happened.
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