Museum
Royal Barges National Museum
80, 1 Thanon Arun Amarin, Khwaeng Arun Amarin, Khet Bangkok Noi, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10700
Gilded ceremonial barges used in Thailand's rarest royal processions, housed in a canal-side dry dock.
This guide to the Royal Barges National Museum in Bangkok opens in 1767, when Burmese forces sacked Ayutthaya and burned the royal barge fleet to ash. It follows what rose from that loss: Suphannahong, the Supreme Swan, a forty-six metre teak barge carved under King Rama the Sixth that takes fifty oarsmen and two steersmen just to move. Stand close to take in the gold lacquer and glass jewels set into her carved swan prow.
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