I learnt nothing much informative or useful about the culture except the paintings about the recluse prince, which was quite a silly story, a prince who gave away his children then his wife too, then thankfully the children ended up with the king, who then abdictated the throne and let the prince come back to society and take over the throne . There were many gifts from other countries, the ones from Japan, China, Vietnam and the U.S. were slightly more refined. The boomerang from Australia made me wonder if it was a joke. Unless it was specially blessed by a tribe oe something. You'll see what I mean when you see it.

The bedrooms were very empty despite being very spacious. There were some very well done enormous portrait paintings of the king and queen etc. There were couches and seats everywhere but because they belonged to the royalty, you can't sit on them even though they were placed in spots that were very inviting. Some of the curation cards were not clear. I had to imagine whether certain words weren't misspelt English, but pronunciations of Lao words, which needed to be made more clearly, and elaborated a bit more on.

It's not that I didn't appreciate the red walls covered with glass Mosaic, or all the kings and queens furniture and clothes. I just couldn't care less about royalty. And their things shouldnt be made into a "national museum". I feel like this was very Versailles of them. This should just be called the Royal Palace , nothing else. I acknowledge that this has significance to Lao, but it isn't necessarily categorisable as a museum. I learnt very little...nothing about the political history of the country or of Lao...

I couldn't even go in at first because, no one at the ticket kiosk instructed that I actually needed to put my bag in the locker room, otherwise you wouldn't be allowed inside the Royal "Palace" itself. And then, the locker room also is a walk away in another building that you had to walk all the way to , and then lock your casual or precious belongings in a 1980s high school style locker.

As a "National" level "museum", there was no air-conditioning, no good lighting.

The only thing I do believe actually deserve some recognition was the banyan tree outside the "Palace". It's a beautiful tree and needed more "worshippers" to appreciate it.

I don't get the No Photos part. Photos should be allowed.