All smiles as Bangkokian Museum hits donation goal
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IN TWO WEEKS a fund-raising campaign for the Bangkokian Museum has collected the Bt10 million needed to ensure the famous building’s survival and enhance it.
The successful campaign shows the public cares about the capital’s history and old ways of life.
The museum’s founder Assoc Prof Waraporn Suravadee launched the campaign on July 19 in the hope of protecting the museum – developed from her decades-old family home – and improving it.
The raising of the Bt10 million was ahead of schedule by a month.
Waraporn beamed when she found the target had been reached Monday.
After the delightful discovery, she halted the inflow of donations.
The Bt10 million is needed to purchase a plot next to the museum.
The plot costs Bt 40million, but Waraporn has already paid Bt30 million for it.
Waraporn said the adjacent land must be bought to ensure the museum’s survival.
“The owner of the next plot has had a plan to put up an eight-storey building [on it],” she said last month.
“Construction on that scale may threaten the structure of the museum, on top of destroying the landscape of the neighbourhood.”
Since Waraporn launched the campaign, many people and organisations have thrown their support behind her.
