Chai Nat Muni National Museum

Located within the temple grounds of Wat Phra Borommathat Worawihan, this archaeological museum is a 2-storey adapted Thai-style building. Downstairs displays celadon Buddha images, tools, and ornaments from the Dvaravati to Ratanakosin period. Most of these displayed artefacts were given by Venerable Phra Chai Nat Muni (Nuam) Suthatto, former Ecclesiastical Provincial Governor of Chai Nat, who was the collector and had handed them over to the Fine Arts Department. While upstairs displays various Buddhist votive tablets from the Dvaravati to Ratanakosin period.

The first-floor exhibition presents the history and archaeology of Chai Nat. The exhibits in this gallery include ornaments of the prehistoric and Dvaravati periods, Buddha images of various styles, and religious objects such as Buddhist text cabinets, Buddhist monks' belongings, sculptures, ceramics of the Lopburi, Ayutthaya and Ratanakosin periods, and Chinese ceramics.

The second-floor exhibition features rare collection of decorative wooden votive tablet niches and miniature bronze Buddha images found at various archaeological sites in Thailand, in the Dvaravati, Sri Vijaya, Lopburi, Ayutthaya, and Ratanakosin styles.

At the back of the building on the ground floor is a small collection of folk crafts. To know about the Thai traditional household utensil and cookery visit to this gallery is a pleasure. Visitors can see an assortment of instruments for agriculture occupation, basketry and pottery displayed. [Source: TAT]

Ayutthaya Historical Research