Suan Pakkad Palace Museum — Attraction in Thanon Phaya Thai Subdistrict

The ticket is affordable (100baht) and they also give you a beautiful crafted hand fan which is a nice souvenir. There are quite many things to see here: several traditional Thai houses and a lot of artifacts inside (prehistoric potteries & jewleries/ royal furnitures/ a room full of Thai traditional music instruments,...) You can easily spend 2-3 hours to take a look at everything here

The staffs are so so so nice🙏🙏🙏

No dresscode required

No photos allowed inside the houses, but feel free to take pics outside in the garden

You need to take off your shoes before entering some rooms. Previous reviews recommended wearing shoes that are easy to take off, but i think any shoe is fine, because there are chairs so that you can sit and take your shoes off and put in given plastic bags with no rush. I only had to take my shoes off 2 times the entire visit.

This is quite a lowkey place, we kinda had the whole space for our own to explore

There are some mosquitos because the museum has garden and ponds, i got stung a few times, but it couldnt ruin our great experience. Most of the space dont have air conditioner so some would find it hot here, but its no problem to me, and you can use the hand fan provided.

10/10 would recommend if you wanna take a break after so many shopping centers, grand and...

🍯 If you have been to the Bangkok National Museum, visiting this museum may be a bit disappointing. In the first hall of the museum, there are very valuable clay jars and pots that were unearthed during archaeological excavations in Ban Chiang, which is located in northeastern Thailand. There are beautiful patterns on these pots. This hall, which contains many antique historical artifacts, is very interesting, but you are not allowed to take photos inside.

🏠 Afterwards, you can visit the two-storey wooden houses built in accordance with traditional Thai architecture in the garden. Various items are exhibited on both floors of these houses. It is very good that some of the houses have air conditioning on the ground floor.

🥁 I really liked the house where musical instruments are exhibited on the ground floor. In another house, information is given about the Ramakien, the Thai version of the Ramayana, but unfortunately the device that animates a war here does not work.

I think that the museum needs a general renovation. The museum can be made more interesting with some simple changes. For example, some of the writings under the exhibited items are very difficult to read.

Despite some of its shortcomings, I like the...

Honestly (and I probably shouldn't see it as a contest), this place should be higher on most tourists must-see lists - higher than Jim Thompson's House for example. This is a really interesting collection of teak houses, that became a royal retreat. You really get a sense of what old Siam was like before thunderous, headspinning Bangkok as we know it superceded it. The site is very peaceful (when I was there on a May weekday, there was just one other couple roaming the grounds), full of interesting and varied Thai art and artefacts, and the staff are very friendly and attentive. The wildlife is interesting too - koi in the ponds, terrapins and monitor lizards roaming around. Its also abundantly green! That makes a change from BKK which is otherwise a fascinating city, but quite beige and grey in its buildings (like many megapolises).

I'd highly recommend Suan Pakkad not only if you have an 'off' day and need somewhere to chill and escape the city for a bit, but also a fascinating tourist site in...