Preah Vihear will have its own museum, but in Cambodia
Not a word about the border dispute between Cambodia and Thailand. Of course not: the Preah Vihear Eco-Global museum is an archaeological museum. But the conflict did contribute to the collection.
(No) Teddy Bear Museum in Pattaya
For many weeks it has been publicized in various ways here in Pattaya. Countless billboards along the roads, advertising cars with loudspeakers, interviews on local television, its own Facebook page, previews of a teddy bear show at several primary schools.
Collecting happens automatically
The museum is known as paraffin pressure lamp museum. That nickname is also obvious, because there are 13.001 of those lamps hanging from the ceiling. Like many (regional) museums in the Netherlands, the Yusuksuwan museum in Prachin Buri started with a private collection.
Art in Paradise – Pattaya
When Pattaya is paradise, the above name is obvious for a museum. I had read about this museum and then my curiosity continued to gnaw, despite the fact that the entrance fee for European tourists is 500 Baht and for Asian 150.
NVT Pattaya organizes an excursion: Baan Hollanda
On Sunday, June 9, the NVP Pattaya organizes an excursion to the common past of Thailand and the Netherlands.
Children's Museum in Bangkok gets a second life
After 2 years of closure, the reopening of the Children's Museum at Queen Sirikit Park in Chatuchak is scheduled for February next year. At the same time, the other children's museum in the south of Bangkok will also reopen.
Art to laugh in Pattaya
Art is actually not for laughing. Art is serious business, which we often admire in silence in museums around the world.
After 12 years the Miniature Museum closes its doors
On May 15, a very nice museum will close its doors. The museum objects, hundreds of miniatures on a scale of 1:12, are packed and moved from a corner in the lobby of the Grand China Princess hotel in Chinatown to the second home of 'museum director' Piyanuch Narkkong in Chiang Mai, or returned to the other makers. And who knows, maybe there will be a reboot in that city one day.
It was significantly quieter when I visited Chang Erawan Museum in Samut Prakan yesterday. Once you could walk around for free, but now a farang pays the main price: 300 baht. This museum is also pricing itself out of the market.