This respite from market mayhem is branded a 'Learning Park', with sculptures and playgrounds. The small Rail Hall of Fame houses old locomotives and...

The famous solid gold Buddha image has been moved from a drab hall into the soaring spire of a marble mondop (artefact tower) that is so glaringly white you...

This canal-laced royal estate explains court life through museums in fretworked 'tropical European' style mansions, most famously Wang Vimanmek. Start at...

The graceful former Public Works Building displays memorabilia of King Rama VII's reign (1925-35). Coverage of his youth, Eton schooling, marriage to Queen...

The cult of Kuan Im (aka Kuan Yin, the Chinese bodhisattva of mercy) prompted this massive, gaudy sculpture garden, embellished with wagon wheels, barrels...

The Museum Siam doesn't mythologise 'Big Man' heroes or mould facts to the nation-building ideology. It presents in plain speaking, 'edutaining' displays,...

Siam's first public museum, and South-east Asia's largest, originated in 1874 as King Rama IV's collection of regalia within the Grand Palace. Opening...

A getaway of King Rama V, this European-style complex became a luxury hotel, then Thailand's first radio station, then a hospital, and now a museum. Amid...

It's worth the hassle (but perhaps not the price) to luxuriate amid these antiques housed in replicas of a European-style mansion, a Khmer shrine and...

The king's late mother, Somdet Phra Srinagarinda Boromarajajonani, beloved as 'Somdet Ya', was born a commoner to goldsmiths and practised nursing. This...

Between Siam's malls and Khlong Saen Saeb, you can glimpse the lush grounds of Saprathum Palace, home to King Bhumibol's daughter Princess Sirindhorn,...

The old town doesn't yet have its own full museum, but this major new permanent exhibition gives the official version of its heritage. Itssophisticated...

In former prison buildings on the site of this park a small penal museum displays instruments of punishment. Amid the gardens' ponds, fountains and a large...

It's an unforgettable sight when fifty slim, elegant and ornate boats carry the royal family from Vasukri Pier to Wat Arun, for a kathin ceremony; the most...