House of Opium is a museum that tells stories of opium in the Golden Triangle. Through beautiful antiques such as opium harvesting knives, scales, weights, pipes, mats and pillows, these tools represent beliefs, cultures , the traditions and magnificent imagination of their Burmese, Shan, Chinese and tribal inventors in Thailand, as well as the history of the region where the three countries meet.
The museum reveals the opium poppy biology, smoking procedure, trading procedure, and explores old murders and skirmishes that historians study today.
Its purpose is to collect elements and evidence of what for the city was, for years, an important form of sustenance. As we have already explained to you when we told you about the origins of the name "golden triangle", the cultivation of opium was a cross and a delight in these areas.
It is true, often the way in which these substances were collected, cultivated, and placed on the market was not lawful. However, it allowed families to have a good form of livelihood.
For this reason, the Opium Room aims precisely to collect testimonies, tools, materials and posters relating to the production of opium and heroin, as an everlasting memory of that traffic which, even if illicit, has brought wealth to the local population. .
On the other hand, the artisan stalls outside the museum are very nice and characteristic.
We were literally enchanted to see soap bars carved with the shapes of orchids and oriental flowers.
House of Opium Museum
Address: 212, Chiang Saen District, 57150
Phone: +66 53 784 060
Site:
https://houseofopium.co/en/Location inserted by
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