Baan Kudichin Museum

This guide to the Baan Kudichin Museum in Thonburi, Bangkok begins with Navinee Pongthai, a fifth-generation descendant of Portuguese soldiers, deciding what to do with her aunt's empty house across the lane. It traces her community back to 1767, when Ayutthaya fell and King Taksin gave the uprooted Portuguese this riverbend and permission to build a church, naming their lane Kudi Chin. Stand along the riverbend to see where that community first put down roots.