The conventional tools and equipments used by Northern Thai farmers and fishermen is what are exhibited at the 200 year old wooden house which is referred to as the Kamthieng House Museum.
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It is the ideal place to visit if one is interested in Thai and Siam style, culture, heritage and arts especially the Lanna style Northern Thai architecture.
This Northern Thai architectural building, earlier located along the banks of the Ping River in Chiang Mai for over 100 years was a private property of the Nimmanahaeminda family before it was handed over to the Siam society that works under the royal patronage. Later on with the assistance of the Asia foundation this wooden house was relocated as a museum in Bangkok in 1964. Mae Nai Haw donated the house to establish it as an ethnological museum in memory of her mother whose name was Kamthieng. It was officially opened in 1966 by His Majesty King Bhumipol Adulyadej.
As a means of preserving the traditional design of a Northern house, this museum also has the five sections which consist of a well, rice pounding shed, kitchen, granary for storing rice and main house for dinning and sleeping. The building is entirely constructed of wooden stilts where the first floor is entirely allocated for agricultural equipments. A tour around this museum allows its guests to understand the practices and rituals of a traditional Lanna family such as animism where they believe in spirits in natural objects. There is also evidence of ancestral worship that has taken place in the guest hall of the main house. The glamorous embroidered fabrics in the bedrooms show the talent in arts and crafts that Lanna society inherited. The other exhibits in the museum such as ornate wooden carvings, traditional musical instruments, and religious items also depict this cultural background of the Lanna society.
If one is visiting this house museum find accommodation at Bangkok serviced apartments such as Bangkok Grand President which provides extremely easy access to this place.
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