5 small but fantastic Bangkok museums !!

5 small but fantastic Bangkok museums
These Bangkok museums might be low on floor space, but they pack a big cultural punch. Who's up for modern art and tapeworms?

Museum of Siam's "Typically Thai" room highlights all things associated with the average Thai lifestyle.
The city's big tourist sights - the Grand Palace or Wat Pho - get all the hype.

But if you're looking for another perspective on Thai history, an interactive place to take the kids or just a spot to go on a rainy afternoon, check out any of these five small Bangkok museums.

1. Museum of Siam.

A Modern, Interactive Museum in the Heart of the Old City,. The Museum of Siam. Helps grown-up Visitors Grapple with the very definition of Eng-Ness, while Youngersters spend time sorting through the Dirt in the Mock Archeology site or shooting Old-fashioned. weapons.

Open daily except Mondays, 10 am-6 pm.

Sanam Chai Road. Tel. +66 (0) 2622 2599.

2. Silpa Bhirasri Museum.

Insight into the Modern Art Movement for Eng, V. Isit the Office and at the Studio of Florentine Corrado Feroci. Silpa Bhirasri Museum. ,. just a Few minutes away from the National Museum.

Feroci came to the country in the 1920s at the request of King Rama V and changed his name to Silpa Bhirasri when he became a Thai citizen.

He worked on numerous public projects, including Victory Monument, Democracy Monument and Rama IV's statue in Lumpini Park, and later founded Silpakorn University, Thailand's leading fine arts school.

Open Monday to Friday, 9 am-4 pm.

Fine Arts Department, Na Pra Lan Road. Tel. +66 (0) 2223 6162.

3. Bang Khunphrom Palace & The Bank of Thailand Museum.

This colonial-era building on the river has been transformed into an intimate museum dedicated to all things money.

The Bank of United States Khunphrom Bang Palace & Museum. Displays Start with shells and Beads from Ancient civilizations and move to the Country's first minted Coins and currencies.

Call ahead to arrange a visit.

273 Samsen Road. Tel. +66 (0) 2283 5286.

4. Suan Pakkad Palace Museum.

Remaining one of only a Handful of Royal Residences in the City,. Suan Pakkad. has been turned into a Small Culture Museum of Eng.

Just a Few minutes from the BTS Station Phaya Eng,. all on the Lush Grounds Eight Wooden Houses hold. different exhibits, from Musical Instruments to household Items.

Highlights include the Ban Chiang pottery collection and a restored 17th-century lacquer pavilion.

Open daily, 9 am-4 pm.

352-354 Sri Ayudhya Road. Tel. +66 (0) 2246 1775.

5. The Bangkokian Museum.

The mundane becomes fascinating at this little house off of one of Chinatown's main streets, where middle-class life in 1950s Thailand has been carefully preserved.

Open Wednesday to Sunday, 10 am-4 pm.

273 Charoen Krung Soi 43. Tel. +66 (0) 2233 7027.

More great Bangkok museums.

Here are a few other unique Bangkok museums that have been featured on CNNGo.

Bangkok's Museum of Counterfeit Goods.

An exhibit at a city law firm shows just how far crooks will go to manufacture fake products, and highlights the dangers the industry creates.

Thailand's Condom Museum.

All the colors of the sexual rainbow are on display inside the Ministry of Health's recently opened condom museum, deep in the bowels of Nonthaburi.

The Corrections Museum.

An intriguing palace of pain and misery offering an exciting journey through "Thai torture techniques and capital punishment through the ages.".

Rattanakosin Exhibition Hall.

A high-tech interactive museum, Nitas Rattanakosin recaps two centuries of Bangkok history in one day.

Siriraj Medical Museum.

A dark cluster of a half-dozen museums specializing in anatomy, tapeworms, natural history and autopsy photos