Museum
Kamthieng House Museum
131 Thanon Asok Montri, Khwaeng Khlong Toei Nuea, Watthana, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10110
Nineteenth-century Lanna teak farmhouse relocated from Chiang Mai, now an ethnological museum of northern Thai culture.
This guide to the Kamthieng House Museum in Bangkok follows a teak farmhouse Mae Saed raised in 1848 on the Ping River in Chiang Mai, passed down her line through daughters rather than sons, and eventually named for her granddaughter Mae Kamthieng, born within its walls. It traces the 1963 decision by a descendant, Kimhaw Nimmanhaeminda, to give the house to the Siam Society, and the operation that followed to move it south. Look up at the sloped roof and its v-shaped galae ornaments, a mark of every northern Thai home.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.