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Sbun-Nga Textile Museum

August 22nd, 2006

Untitled-1.jpgIf you are into antique textile, this is privately-owned Sbun-Nga Textile Museum in Chiang Mai is another place you should not miss!

Museum, the largest of its kind in Thailand. Comprising 5 exibition sections - Tai Lue, Tai Lao, Tai Kaun, Tai Y ai and Tai Yuan - the 1,000 sqm. teakwood Sbun-Nga Textile Museum is located at the Old Chiang Mai Cultural Centre in Chiang Mai.

Focusing on a wide range of rare textiles of m embers of the royal family as well as local people dating back 80 to 200 years, the collection at the museum encompasses more than 1,000 pieces of ancient regional Thai textiles of the northern part of Thailand as well as Laos, Vietnam, Burma and China.

The museum is open daily except Wednesdays from 10.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. and the entrance fees for foreigners are THB 100.00 per person (adult) and THB 50.00 per person (child).

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