Museum
The National Gallery
4 Chao Fa Rd, Khwaeng Chana Songkhram, Khet Phra Nakhon, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10200
Neo-classical former Royal Mint turned national art museum, housing Thai masterworks from the seventeenth century to today.
This guide to Bangkok's National Gallery starts with the building's earlier life: a Royal Mint commissioned in 1902 by King Rama the Fifth from Italian engineer Carlo Allegri, its walls built to withstand the constant tremor of coin presses. It follows six decades of stamping every baht in the kingdom, the mint's abrupt silence in 1968 when a newer facility took over, and the years the grand building sat empty near Sanam Luang before the Fine Arts Department stepped in.
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