Best places: Museums in Samphanthawong District, Thailand

Centuries-old Siamese treasures, weapons & royal antiques displayed in 18th-century palace halls.

Decorative museum with multimedia exhibits on the Rattanakosin Era, plus a coffee shop & a library.

Early 20th-century teak home surrounded by greenery, with elegant furnishings & family heirlooms.

Compact museum focused primarily on 2 reconstructed houses from the early 20th century.

Museum in a 19th-century building with hands-on exhibits & programs exploring the country's history.

👍👍 Best for students, workers and everyone who is looking for a quite place to work. Great facilities and good service. They have all kinds of books, good view, museums and even cafe. It was a great experience for me and I really love this place. It is totally free, it doesn’t cost you anything and you...

Local history museum with archaeological finds, royal photos & dioramas, plus a library & gift shop.

👍👍 Free admission museum with cafe' where offer a nice cup of coffee and Portuguese-influenced cuisine like สัพแหยก. Small and charming place to visit on your holiday.

👍👍 Art exhibition space with elegant building. So fortunate I had the chance to witness the collections of Art Thesis Exhibition from Rajamangala University.

A stunning collection of traditional textile products is on display at this stylish modern museum.

👍👍 There are two buildings to visit on this site, the more modern building houses the contents of the police museum and then you have the Chitralada Villa which for me was the highlight of my visit. Completed in 1906, it's beautifully designed. Heavily influenced by Italian architecture with Art Nouvea...

Museum complex of 8 traditional teak houses, with displays of antiques, paintings & furniture.

Works by Thai artists are on display at this gallery set up after a request by Queen Sirikit.

👍👍 พระที่นั่งพุทไธสวรรค์ เป็นที่ประดิษฐานพระพุทธสิหิงค์ มีภาพจิตรกรรมฝาผนัง

😠 I loved this little museum when I visited before COVID. However they are retrofitting it with weird LED lighting and it looks like a cheap night club now, what a stupid idea!

Historic palace complex & museum known for its ornamental stucco details & elaborate interiors.

👍👍 It's worth coming. The interior is beautiful. They opened the temple at Wat Rangsi Mawas. Enter according to various opportunities It was originally a temple connected to Wat Bowonniwet. and later gathered into the same temple

Human anatomy exhibition featuring 15 dissected & preserved bodies in 2 rooms at a medical school.

👍👍 I am biased because this museum is named for my great-grandfather Edgar Congdon, who was an Anatomist for the Rockefeller Foundation and taught first at Peking University in China and then here in Bangkok in the 1930s. He designed a system for preserving biological specimens without using formaldehy...

👍👍 It is actually a museum of banking and library complex with spectacular river view. Very well designed and quiet. Good for researchers and university students who need a quiet space. There is alao a cafe in the building.