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It is located on Sanam Chai Road in Phra Nakhon District, in the former
building of the Ministry of Commerce. This building won an outstanding
award of art and architecture preservation in 2006 from the committee
on art and architecture preservation of the Association of Siamese
Architects under the Royal Patronage of His Majesty the King (ASA).
The museum serves as a learning centre on ethnology,
anthropology, and other fields related to Thai society and Southeast
Asia, in order to instil consciousness and understanding of the Thai
people in their history, nation, culture, and localities, as well as
connect relative ties with neighbouring countries. New methods of a
display with modern media have been applied to enable participation of
visitors in learning and understanding historical stories of the Thai
nation. The contents on display in the form of the ‘Essays on Thailand’
have been divided into 16 rooms in the three-storey building. The first
floor exhibits rooms of ‘Immersive Theater’ and ‘Typically Thai.’ The
second floor displays rooms of the ‘Map Room,’ ‘Bangkok, New
Ayutthaya,’ ‘Village Life,’ ‘Change,’ ‘Politics and Communications,’
‘Thailand and the World,’ ‘Thailand Today,’ and ‘Thailand Tomorrow.’
The third floor includes rooms of ‘Introduction to Suvarnabhumi,’
‘Suvarnabhumi,’ ‘Buddhism,’ ‘Founding of Ayutthaya,’ ‘Siam,’ and the
‘War Room.’ Visitors will gain knowledge and enjoy themselves from
visiting each exhibition room. In addition, learning activities are
organised for youth and aficionados of museums.
THINGS TO KNOW:
Address: on Sanam Chai Road, near Wat Pho (500 metre walking distance) and Phra Nakorn Police Station.
Tel: 0
2622 2599
Fax: 0 2225 2775
To get there: taking public bus no. 3, 6, 9, 12, 47, 53,
82, 524 or taking taxi boat toTha Tien Pier then continue walking
for 500 metres.
Open: Tuesdays to Sundays from 10.00 a.m. –
6.00 p.m.
Website: www.ndmi.or.th
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