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Museum's awareness campaign Three mobile exhibitions are planned for this year to stimulate public awareness - especially among the young - prior to the opening of the National Discovery Museum Institute (NDMI). On October 5 an exhibition called "Thai Politicians", which will look into the 73-year history of Thai politics, will be launched at Parliament. It will visit educational institutions across the country from October to December, NDMI board chairman Chai-anand Samutvanich said yesterday. Chiranand Pitpreecha, NDMI adviser on activities and museum networking, said the exhibition would offer useful information about Thai politics and allow visitors to step into politicians' shoes by having an election-campaign poster made with the their photo and proposed policies on it. "We are aiming at the younger generations, whose learning mostly concerns technology or topics related to their career, so that they have a chance to learn more about social and political issues," she said. From October 20-28 an exhibition called "A Passage to Russia" will be open to the public at Central World Plaza. The event will cover Thai-Russian relations during the reign of King Rama V and include special lectures from academics and writers. Another mobile exhibition about the geo-ecology of Thailand's northern, Northeast and southern regions will be held from November to December, Chiranand said. Each region will offer insights into various topics due to the differences in their natural environments and cultural ways of life. The North will have the chance to showcase its art, while the resource-limited Northeast will offer insights into local wisdom and finding "food from the earth". The South's display will look at communities around the Gulf of Thailand. The exhibit will be held in Chiang Mai from November 4-6, Maha Sarakham from November 24-27 and Songkhla from December 8-11. The events were announced at the NDMI logo launch yesterday. The logo is in the form of a human figure of ambiguous race and gender who is in a frog-like position, recognising what historical evidence suggests was a sacred animal in prehistoric Southeast Asia. The logo reflects the museum's aim to encourage people to understand human origins so that they might better understand how their ancestors intermarried and exchanged cultural and social differences to create the communities, states, kingdoms and nations that we know today. A TV commercial called "Baby" was also introduced to media yesterday. The Discovery Museum - focusing on Thai and Southeast Asian history, ancient cultures, societies and ways of life - will occupy the buildings that previously housed the Commerce Ministry on Sanam Chai Road and is slated to open to the public in early 2007.
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