National Museum

The Bangkok National Museum is the main branch museum of the National Museums in Thailand and one of the largest museums in Southeast Asia. It features exhibits of Thai art and history, including The King Ram Khamhaeng Inscription, which was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme Register in 2003. The museum occupies the former palace of the vice king and contains exhibits covering Thai history back to Neolithic times. The collection includes extensive collections of regional Asian Buddhist Arts such as Indian Gandhara, Chinese Tang, Vietnamese Cham, Indonesian Java, and Cambodian Khmer arts. The museum also displays artistic, cultural, and ethnographic exhibits such as gold treasures and precious stones, mother of pearl inlay, royal emblems and insignia, costumes and textiles, ceramics, carved ivory, old royal transportation, and old weapons and musical instruments