Music blasted from parade trucks so loud it shatters ancient museum artefacts | News World

Music blasted from parade floats shattered several antiques in a museum in Chaiyaphum, northeastern Thailand.

Chaiyaphum Ancient Textile Museum owner Dr Komkrich Ritkhachorn said Bai Sri Boon caused ‘severe damage’ to the exhibitions on April 22.

Dr Ritkhachorn said in a since-deleted Facebook post that as parade-goers passed Chai Prasit Road, the music was so loud it shook display cases.

The cultural researcher blamed the some 100 parade trucks equipped with giant loudspeakers, locally often known as rod hae, for the damage.

Photographs showed shattered pottery scattered on the museum floor, with some display pedestals nearly empty.

Dr Ritkhachorn said: ‘Was it value it to show this place into town of rod hae when it causes trouble for people?

‘I even have no objection to the parade. But can organisers reduce the noise level in order that it can not cause any damage?’

The 10km-long procession featured greater than 150 floats, some greater than two metres tall, based on local news outlet Matichon.

The times-long celebration within the Muang district honours Chao Pho Phaya Lae, a Lao immigrant who died fighting within the late nineteenth century.

Dr Ritkhachorn told the Tourism and Environment News Agency that he has no issue with the Bai Sri Boon parade.

‘If the competition continues based on who’s louder and who creates probably the most impact, ultimately, it’s not only the artefacts within the museum that can be destroyed, however the meaning of the religious ceremony itself,’ he said.

‘What began as an event of religion will step by step turn out to be something that local people turn out to be weary of and apprehensive about.’

Local and provincial judges visited the museum on April 24 to examine the damage, Dr Ritkhachorn added.

As many museums have prepared for the worst, like earthquakes and heavy construction, day-to-day noise isn’t one in every of them, researchers say.

The study by the National Museum Cardiff found that the museum’s own displays were being slowly rattled around by visitors shuffling around or gigs down the road.

Objects may slowly ‘wander’ around because vibrations slowly erode them – an ancient Egyptian statue was caught in 2013 spinning around in its case for several days in Manchester Museum in  Latest Hampshire.

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