I am going to start with two of my favorite Thai Kings. Most of you have heard of the movie "The King and I". Well it was taken from the life of King Mongkut. He had I think about 6 wives and way too many children to count. He was the first Thai King to try to modernize the Thai kingdom.
This boat was just a beautiful example of a ship during that period.
He banished the conscripted labour system, developed the country's modern style education in order to modernize. He hired wives of misionaries like Anna Leonowens to teach English.
My next favorite King was during the early 1900's. His name was King Chulalongkorng or Rama 5. The reason I like him was that he was friends with the last Czar of Russia Nicholas which is a period of history that I like very much.
So here is a picture of the King and the Czar meeting in Russia . Pretty cool, right?!
Here is the King's throne chair.
Here is a statue of the King. He was a very short man.
Next, the current Queen's exhibit, it was a small collection, a few dolls, some clothes, purses, not too much.
Hannah, (my daughter-in-law), these next two pictures I took especially for you. They were from the Queen's exhibit, and when I saw them, guess who I thought of . . .
They were from her collection of purses. I bet you would give up a few of your Coach purses for one of these, right?
The last part of the museum that I will talk about was the puppet museum. Puppets are still a big part of the culture of Bangkok. They still have shows here. In the museum they have beautiful old puppets, hand held ones, plain wooden puppets, just about any kind that you could think of. They are really beautiful.
Linda
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