Bay Island Driftwood Museum in Kerala

Driftwood Museum in Kumarakom is  a museum to display  a very unique collection of drift wood scultures which are of superior quality and artistic value. This driftwood museum is known as Bay Island driftwood museum and is located in one of the villages in the area Kumarakom. You can find a very huge collection of  various shapes and designs of root sculptures. This bay island museum was established in the year 2001 and is the only one such museum inthe whole of India. Now raji Punnoose is the curator and the proprietor of the museum.

Raji Punnoose, who was a school teacher then at the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago , used to pick up pieces of driftwood deposited at the sea shores by the waves of the sea. Most of them were twisted tree trunks, stumps and roots etc . She found that with little hardwork she could change and transform them into scultptures.  Thanks to the area she was in and the turbulent weather of the Bay of Bengal with its cyclones  and storms brought many such things back to the shore.

Some of these pieces were centuries old and had become resilient having drifted across the seas for a long time. What was left of these woods were the sturdiest parts which were cleansed, the dead parts of the wood were removed, scraped and trimmed  to bring the wood to the shape of the sculpture which she had in mind. many of them got shaped as she liked them to be and they closely resembled reptiles, animals, birds and fishes.

Now there are many who like to visit this driftwood museum as they find the exhibits educative and interesting  as well as inculcatesthe qualities of imagination , creativity, originality and an intiative to produce usefiul articles from the waste materials thrown away and seen to be of no use. This driftwood museum encourages one to use imagination and the creativity inside everyone of us  to do and show more and more.

No Entrance  fee is collected. The Museum is closed on Mondays and all the other days are working days.

Timings :
Weekday: 10.00am to 01.00pm, 1.30pm to 6.00pm
Sunday: 12.30pm to 6.00pm

Contact Number of Bay Island Driftwood Museum, Kerala 
Museum: 0481-2525634
Curator: 94474 64296
Residence: 0481-2517530