The Thailand Burma Railway Center is a museum and research center in Kanchanaburi, in Thailand. It was privately funded and run by Rod Petty, an Australian expert on the history of the Thai and Burma railways. This excellent museum balances statistics and historical context with personal accounts of the conditions endured by the prisoners of war and other imprisoned workers forced to build the Thailand and Burma Railway. Kanchanaburi's role in World War II is fully explained, but most of the museum traces the journey of railroad workers from transport in cramped skar wagons to disease-ridden labor camps in the jungle, as well as the fate of post-war survivors.