On October 11, 2021, Labour Minister Mr. Suchart Chomklin visited the Thai Labour Museum. The Labour Minister’s Advisor, Mrs. Thiwalrat Angkinan, Secretariat to the Labour Minister Mr. Suthep Chitayawong, the Ministry of Labour’s Spokesperson (on politics) Mrs. Theanrat Nawamawat, Permanent Secretary of Labour Mr. Boonchob Suttamanaswong, and the Ministry of Labour’s executives also joined the occasion. The Labour Minister and delegation visited the exhibition and met to discuss ways to support the Thai Labour Museum. On the same occasion, the Labor Minister received a presentation summarizing the background and challenges by the museum manager and received a letter to request support, including the exchange and set guidelines to support the Thai Labour Museum. The occasion occurred at the Thai Labour Museum, located at 503/20, Makkasan Railway Nikom Road, Makkasan Subdistrict, Ratchathewi District, Bangkok.
Mr. Suchart continued that today, his team and he visited the Thai Labour Museum to discuss supporting its continued operations with its set objectives. The Thai Labour Museum was established on December 1, 1991, by the Labour Organization, NGOs, labour academics, historians, and archivists. There was a consensus to establish the Thai Labour Museum is a place for collecting and displaying stories of Thai workers. The old one-story building that once served as a railway police station and railway union office is now the first labour museum in Thailand through joint efforts. It tells the story of the working class. The official inauguration ceremony was held on October 17, 1993, with four objectives, namely, to showcase the story, history, life, and work of the workforce, to be a place for studying, researching, collecting, and disseminating knowledge about Thai workers history, to be a center for collecting information, documents, books, audio, and video recordings about Thai workers for providing services to the public and to be a labour arts and culture center that organizes activities for workers and the public.
Currently, the location of the Thai Labour Museum in the area of Makkasan Railway Station will be used for business development to generate income. But the importance of this museum will lead to cooperation from the labour department and the general public, including the government, to make this place a history of labour that continues to maintain value in Thai society.
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Division of Public Relations
11 October 2021
