Dudley co-founded the museum with tsunami survivor Jeanne Johnston in 1994 to educate residents and visitors about the natural disaster and to serve as a living memorial to those who lost their lives.

And it's more expensive than we're able to manage.” While Preller emphasised that the museum—founded in the 1990s by Jeanne Johnston, a survivor of the tsunami that hit the island in 1946 —is “not ...

Local official Siwat Rawangkun chaired religious ceremonies for Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims before placing flowers at the Ban Nam Khem Tsunami Memorial Park in Phang Nga. Many locals and ...

The struggling Pacific Tsunami Museum is calling for community support to keep its doors open. HPR’s Savannah Harriman-Pote reports on what’s next for this Hilo landmark.

In the same story, Paul Alston, an attorney and trustee with the Olson Trust, said they “received a $25,000 commitment from ...

In Thailand, people gathered at a memorial ceremony in Ban Nam Khem, a small fishing village in Phang Nga province that bore the brunt of the devastating wave in the country. The tsunami claimed ...

The final exhibition encouraging owners to collect items that were swept away by the tsunami following the 2011 Great East ...

At one in Ulee Lheue village, where 14,000 unidentified victims are buried, families of those killed by the tsunami wept and placed flowers. There were similar memorial ceremonies in Ban Nam Khem ...

at Tsunami Memorial Park at Ban Nam Khem, Takuapa district of Phang Nga province, southern Thailand, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn) Infrastructure in Aceh has been rebuilt ...