It is privately funded and ran by Rod Beattie,[1] an Australian who is an expert in the history of the Thailand–Burma Railway.

[2] The centre is located to the west of the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery,[3] and is housed in the former headquarters of the Imperial Japanese Army which was constructed by prisoners of war and Asian forced labourers.

[4] Rod Beattie is the museum's curator and is originally from Queensland, Australia, but has spent at least a decade living in Kanchanburi and uncovering abandoned sections of the railway.

The area describes the Japanese invasion of Southeast Asia and the transportation of POWs to Burma and Thailand.

Subsequent sections of the museum describes the geography, living conditions, deaths and the end of the railway.