Drug Eliminating Museum in Thongwa

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展示物がちょっと古いです。

This is a really fascinating museum and worth a look. It highlights the countries hard work to stop the drug trade. Definitely an interesting tourist experience.

Instructive!

Only for museum lovers. Nothing special, old style museum

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Dont go. Creepy, terribly run down, and a significant portion of wall space is of generals and cronies standing in group shots.

場館還在整修中，目前是有點崩壞的狀態，4000緬幣不太值得，但可以當作台灣彰化18層地獄這樣的惡趣味景點來看待。

Good

The museum is located in front of B.E.H.S(1),Sanchaung. I hope this museum will give a lot of knowledge to the visitor.

Run down but for 3000 kip an interesting view on the course of drug prevention in Myanmar and the government and history involved. Good for kids

I always search out weird museums like this to visit when I travel because you can never really know what to expect from it. But if you’re wondering if you should spend a few hours here, let me recap my whole visit for you and you can decide for yourself.First, there’s the 4000 kyat entrance fee and the additional 5000 kyat if you wanna take pics. Secondly, the building is in disrepair. There seem to be little to no aircon and there are areas with annoying mosquitoes, low lighting and, from the 2nd level onwards, cracked floor area marked by cryptically colored X-boxes where you’re presumably not supposed to step into. Some areas are also blocked by rows of chairs for some reason. Noisy staff shout-talk across the museum at times and at one point, I was startled by the rustle of birds taking flight above an exhibit info board.If you can brave all that, then it’s time to see what the museum itself have to offer.On the first level, we began with the early history of harmful drugs where they’ll keep reiterating that ‘Drugs don’t come from Myanmar!’ There is an interesting ‘Drug abuse ruin lives’ exhibit room which may well be the highlight of the whole museum. First floor exhibits end with many photos and details of the Moe Hein Operation, a 12-phase high publicity op where the military attacked and reclaimed lands used for drug operations in northern Myanmar. This floor, from major drug history events like the opium war to actual drug trafficking battles, turns out to be pretty interesting.2nd floor starts with the government’s SOPS for drug control, then photo ops of various ‘arms group parties returning to legal fold’, which include one telling picture of a traditionally-dressed old man looking forlornly at a mic with a battalion of hard soldiers behind him. Then there’s exhibits on land development in past opium areas, drug composition, photo ops of drugs destruction ceremony where bottled pills were laid in flower shapes before being grounded by bulldozers, bridge models, more drug arrests and of course, international cooperation efforts.3rd floor starts with crop n livestock farming substitution in the pre-drug op lands, drug education and rehab as well as government anti-drug campaigns. It all ends with photos of renovation works on the museum itself, reminding us that progress is slow, but steady.

Interesting museum.. some of it is straight info and some of it is propaganda. There is a lot about Myanmars efforts to eliminate drugs from their country. Be sure to check out the strange room behind closed doors...

Best place for people who want to learn about the dangerous and affect cause by drugs.

Interesting museum on Asias drug trade. Includes dated exhibits on different drugs, trading, rehabilitation and effects. The floor needs to be repaired in many places. There are red and green tape xs all over the floor where you should not step due to it crumbling. Kind of freaked me out since it was hard to look at exhibits and pay attention to where you step. $4,000mmd to enter and $5000mmd camera fee. I opted to not take photos and skip the camera fee. Glad I did as there was nothing worth taking a photo of. Empty museum with every floor to myself. There was a woman who followed me at a distance to make sure I wasnt taking photos (or so I presume). Had to put my bag/purse in a locker at the entrance. Odd place to be overall.

很好

Visiting this museum is actually very interesting, even though it seems its popular only among dogs sleeping on the from porch. The museum shows the history of opium poppy cultivation, that according to the exhibition had started by Europeans; the effects of drug use and then the showcases about governments efforts to eliminate the production through crops replacement leave like the visitors in a good spirit. If you have an hour & half to spare, its worth visiting, there is even a room with strange hallucinogenic effects.

Pretty good information and some interesting displays, some are a bit unclear though

Old with Scary

It’s a old , bad maintenance place.The display is huge and full of old news.Entrance fee for local people is free,while for foreign is 4000 per person.Take photos will be charged 5000 more.There are few visitors on sat.

2 stars for weirdness. A propaganda museum of huge proportions.

Very interesting. You won’t come across another museum like this anywhere in the world. Some parts of the museums were a little old though.

Fascinating and intriguing place. Not a must-do but if you have a few hours on hand, do pay a visit here.

Weird and eerie, but interesting. Worth a visit though.

Good

It’s lit!

Really quite amusing. A North Korea-esque experience.The hours and the camera fee are annoying but otherwise a fairly easy place to visit.

Incredible place to learn about the regimes propaganda

Foreigner USD 3 + 5 USD camera fee. Huge place, not busy, weird. See it for the strange experience ?! Its not the contents or quality of the museum Im interested in its the museum as such as an example of the OLD system of Myanmars government. The camera fees the whole look and feel of the place is like something from the 1980s or 1990s. Thats the thing I come to see.😎Its like an exhibit of the OLD old days, the attitude and methods.

The best muzeum ever

Just they demonstrated what’s they have done to eliminate drug.

Not the best I’ve seen so far! Very lack information and not that great at all! For all the effort we made to get there, it doesn’t deserve. Only go if you really want to see it or have time! Otherwise skip it!

I was the only visitor in a huge building. The museum is super rundown, but I do think the information is very comprehensive and interesting to see history, up to present - from the Myanmar government’s point of view.There’s some hysterical displays, and the fact that this huge building and exhibition look like they were abandoned 20 years ago alone makes it worth the visit.

I can only recommend visiting this place if you have a huge fetish for museums. Even if you think, "Oh, well, itll be a unique experience and I think the fact that its kind of a mess will add to its ironic charm..." you will still be wasting your time and money. It is K4000 for a foreigner, and another K5000 if you want to take pictures - with a phone or traditional camera. The exhibits are elementary-school level, and the information provided is very brief. Even the workers know this place is a joke. With all that said, it was a decent place to get out of the sun for 45 minutes.

Ciekawe miejsce ,godne uwagi 😊

So, imagine a normal museum. Now imagine that museum got hooked on drugs and has spent the last couple decades sleeping in crack dens. Welcome to the Drug Elimination Museum. Staff asleep all over the place, birds raining poo down onto the exhibits, bizarro anti-drug propaganda, and a genuinely unsettling atmosphere. Maybe the worst museum Ive ever been to, but 1,000% worth it. Also, dont pay the ridiculous camera fee they charge -- just take stealthy photos and try not to get caught.

Whoa man

Its rundown and almost nobody is there, but its also a fascinating view into the old governments propaganda. The museum is impressively large and the dioramas are surprisingly well done. Its is a weird mix of interesting, funny and sad. Definitely worth a visit to see a huge museum stuck in time.

日本では見れない展示内容。見ていると気分が少し重くなりますが、後から行って良かったと思える。

5000 kyat, the building is so huge. Its interesting to see the propaganda displays and see the government POV on this topic...

ミャンマーの博物館の中では、説明は親切な方だと思う。日本と比べては駄目です。ここは、建物の形、雰囲気、匂い、客の少なさから、重~い気持ちになります。

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