Jim Thompson House Museum
Six traditional Thai teak houses joined into one compound, now a museum of Southeast Asian art and unsolved mystery.
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This guide to the Jim Thompson House in Bangkok follows the American who built it: an ex-OSS operative who arrived in 1945, discovered Thai weavers selling silk for almost nothing, and turned it into a global fashion story that reached the cast of The King and I. You'll hear how he assembled the compound from six teak houses collected from across the city, reversing walls so their carvings faced inward. It traces him up to one Easter Sunday in 1967, when he walked out of a bungalow in Malaysia and vanished. Listen for the detail about the weaver's village just across the canal from the house.
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