Bangkok National Museum

The Bangkok National Museum is the primary branch museum of Thailand's National Museums and one of Southeast Asia's major museums. It has Thai art and historical displays. It is housed in the old vice king's palace (or Front Palace), which is located between Thammasat University and the National Theater, overlooking Sanam Luang.

King Chulalongkorn created and inaugurated the museum in 1874 to display his father King Mongkut's royal possessions. Today, the galleries house exhibits that trace Thai history back to the Neolithic period. In acknowledgment of its significance, the collection contains The King Ram Khamhaeng's Inscription, which was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme in 2003. The museum not only preserves and shows Thai artifacts from the Dvaravati, Srivijaya, Sukhothai, and Ayutthaya eras, but it also has vast collections of regional Asian Buddhist arts such as Indian Gandhara, Chinese Tang, Vietnamese Cham, Indonesian Java, and Cambodian Khmer arts.

Location: 4 Na Phra That Alley, Phra Borom Maha Ratchawang, Phra Nakhon, Bangkok

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