Jim Thompson's House is a Bangkok house-museum, located in the Pathumwan district.
It is a complex consisting of several ancient Thai housing structures created by US businessman Jim Thompson (1906-1967?) To house his collection of works of art. It is currently a popular tourist attraction in Bangkok.
Jim Thompson, a former spy officer at the Office of Strategic Services who became a prominent silk entrepreneur, was a Southeast Asian art collector.
His collection consisted of statues, paintings and porcelain from Thailand, Burma, Cambodia and Laos.
In 1958 he began building a house in a park overlooking a klong (canal), buying and relocating parts of six old 19th-century Thai houses to Bangkok, many of which came from Ayutthaya, the former capital of the kingdom. of Thailand.
Thompson used the old wooden houses to build his house-museum, adding European architectural elements (including Italian marble floors). The house was finished in 1959.
After Jim Thompson's mysterious disappearance in 1967, the house was opened to the public and is now administered by the James H. W. Thompson Foundation under the patronage of Princess Sirindhorn.
Jim Thompson House Museum
Address: 6 Kasem San 2 Alley, Wang Mai, Pathum Wan District 10330
Phone: +66 2 216 7368
Site:
http://www.jimthompsonhouse.com/Location inserted by
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