Mamallapuram gets lighthouse museum.

Yet another tourist attraction, a lighthouse heritage museum, was added to the world-renowned, historical town of Mamallapuram, about 60 km from Chennai.

Inaugurating the facility, comprising heritage and marine museums, Union shipping minister G.K. Vasan said it was the first of its kind in the country and had been set up by the directorate general of lighthouses and lightships (DGLL).

The museum houses miniatures of different kinds of ships, fishing boats and defence vessels, and also porcelain containers, medicine box and crockery with departmental emblem supplied to light-keepers to use in different lighthouses.

The open space in the complex, part of which has green cover, has been utilised for installation of specimens of ships and a deep-sea channel marking buoy among other things.

The Hindu