Grand Palace
The Grand Palace is the walled royal compound on the east bank of the Chao Phraya that Rama I began on 6 May 1782, an act that also founded Bangkok.
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The Grand Palace is the walled royal compound on the east bank of the Chao Phraya that Rama I began on 6 May 1782, an act that also founded Bangkok.
Wat Pho, in full Wat Phra Chetuphon, is the temple immediately south of the Grand Palace, and it is the only monument in Bangkok carrying an international documentary-heritage inscription.
Museum Siam is a museum about being Thai, in a building that was designed by an Italian.
The Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles is a textile museum inside the Grand Palace, occupying the Ratsadakorn-bhibhathana Building just inside the palace's outer court, and it is the quietest, most air-conditioned room on the whole compound.
The National Gallery on Chao Fa Road is Thailand's first state institution for collecting, conserving and exhibiting the nation's art, and it occupies the old royal mint building at the north end of the Rattanakosin island, a five-minute walk from…
The Bank of Thailand Museum occupies the vault of Thailand's first banknote printing works, on Samsen Road in Phra Nakhon, and is the museum arm of the Bank of Thailand Learning Center.
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