Museum
The Queen's Gallery
101 Thanon Ratchadamnoen Klang, Khwaeng Wat Bowon Niwet, Khet Phra Nakhon, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10200
Royal foundation gallery on Ratchadamnoen Avenue showcasing Thai contemporary and traditional fine arts.
This guide to The Queen's Gallery in Bangkok traces how Queen Sirikit, watching traditional Thai crafts like embroidery, gilded lacquerwork and Khon masked dance fade in the 1970s as young Thais left looms for factories, began funding restorations and training workshops inside the royal palace. It follows that patronage to the five-story gallery she opened on Ratchadamnoen Avenue in 2003, and the three kinds of work its foundation shows there. Listen for how a single alarmed observation turned into an institution.
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