Learn How They Made the Shadow Puppets at Suchart Subsin's House of Shadow Puppetry

Suchart Subsin's House of Shadow Puppetry is a privately-owned family-run museum dedicated to preserving the art of crafting shadow puppets out of cow's skin which is a traditional art performance that originated in this part of Thailand. The family that runs this museum is the daughter of Suchart Subsin, a national artist and shadow puppet master that was endorsed by King Rama on the 9th and he decided to preserve the shadow puppets he made in this little museum.

Some of the puppets are as old as time with the oldest ones you can see dated all the way back to 1795, probably the oldest puppets that are still kept intact. Since the art of Nang Talung (shadow puppeteer) actually originated in India, they also collect several shadow puppets from all over the world, with the most impressive collection from India itself. There is also a preserved collection from the period of World War 2, they had to keep them small in order to avoid detection by the Japanese soldiers who took over the country during that time.