Page updated: 2011-05-06
Introduction
The Floating market
The Market place
The Ancient City, Muang Boran in Thai language, is located in Samut Prakan, between Bangkok and the coast. On their own website is a good description of how to get there.
The museum has the same shape as Thailand, and it is vast.
More than hundred buildings are on their premisses, and new ones are added.
We have been there twice, in 1987 and in 1989.
The first time just the two of us, we went by bus.
From Bangkok you have a convenient connection, but the museum is so vast, you don't have
enough time to see everything.
The second time we went with Pia's family, by car.
It's possible to use your car inside the museum, so you can see a lot more, but even by car,
you need more than one day to see everything.
What struck us was the good condition the buildings were in.
And, as far as we could see, the craftmanship with which the building were constructed or
rebuild.
A number of buildings do not exist any more in modern Thailand, for example the palaces
from Auytthaya.
By using old documents and paintings, the museum has succeeded in making very good replica.
A number of buildings, like the Khao Phra Wihan has been reduced to a 1 to 4 scale.
This makes it possible to get a good impression of these sometimes huge historical
monuments of Thailand.
What's very special is that you can enter each building
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