Museum
Suan Pakkad Palace Museum
352 Thanon Si Ayutthaya, Khwaeng Thanon Phaya Thai, Khet Ratchathewi, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10400
Eight antique teak pavilions on a former cabbage farm, crowned by a four-century-old Lacquer Pavilion glittering with gold-on-black murals.
This guide to Suan Pakkad Palace Museum in Bangkok follows Prince Chumbhot Paribatra, a grandson of King Chulalongkorn, and his wife Princess Chumbhot as they turned a former cabbage patch into eight antique teak pavilions in the 1950s. At the heart of the grounds sits the Lacquer Pavilion, moved from a temple near Ayutthaya in 1959 as a birthday gift from the prince to his princess. The pavilion first stood at a temple near Ayutthaya for roughly four centuries before that move. Wander the lotus ponds between the pavilions before heading inside.
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