Bay Island Driftwood Museum is located at the scenic village of Kumarakom in Kerala State of India. A visitor would find there a huge collection of root sculptures of various shapes and designs. Mrs. Raji Punnoose is the curator and proprietress of the museum. Driftwood Museum is Kerala’s only special interest tourist destination and a great futuristic asset of Indian tourism. Mrs. Raji Punnoose painstakingly recovered these rare objects from the Andaman seas at great risk. The artifacts, created and sustained by the sea waves for millennia, weighing many tons, big and small, collected, improvised, worth millions in international market, are permanently exhibited at Kumarakom.
The Limca Book of Records has certified that Bay Island Museum ( est 2001) located in kumarakom, kerala, the only drift wood museum, showcases objects that have been painstakingly recovered and collected from the andaman seas and beaches by Raji Punnoose (proprietor and curator) during her career as a post graduate teacher in the islands.
The Bay Island Driftwood Museum is the only one of its kind in the country. It displays a beautiful blend of nature’s creativity and an artist’s imagination, and remains one of the wonderful repositories of most fascinating and rarely seen objects.
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