About
The Bay Island Driftwood Museum sits on Bay Island in Kumarakom, in the Kottayam district of Kerala, India. It is also known as the Driftwood Museum Kumarakom, and it is a museum built around one unusual kind of collection: sculptures and artifacts made from natural pieces of driftwood.
What you will see
The museum displays more than 700 rare pieces of driftwood, gathered from a range of places. Each piece has been shaped into a sculpture or an artifact, so the collection is a study in what the sea and the wood can offer and how human hands have worked with them. For visitors who are curious about craft, or who simply enjoy looking closely at objects that are not like anything they have seen before, the displays make a focused and absorbing visit.
Planning your visit
- Location: Bay Island, Kumarakom, Kottayam, Kerala 686563, India
- Contact: +91-481-2524053
- Best suited to: visitors interested in art, unusual collections and natural materials
The area around it
Kumarakom is a village set among the backwaters of Kerala, so a visit to the museum can easily be part of a slower day spent on the water and in the surrounding landscape. Because the museum is a single, focused attraction, it suits a short stop as well as a longer afternoon, and it pairs naturally with other places in the Kumarakom area.
