Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum

The Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum is a history museum in Bangkok University, Pathum Thani, Thailand, displaying ceramics in Southeast Asia.

The museum opened to the public on 11 May 2005 and Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chaki Sirindhorn graciously presided over the official inauguration of Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum on 20 November 2009 with exhibits on ancient ceramic production in Thailand and the history of Thai and other Asian trade ceramics. This included around 500 ceramic pieces selected from a permanent collection of about 15,000 objects. The core of the collection was donated by Surat Osathanugrah, who also founded Bangkok University.

While many of the ceramics in the collection originate from other countries, most were collected in Thailand. The collection includes ceramics examples from China, Vietnam, and Burma, as well as from Thailand.

The collection includes Khmer ceramics, mostly from the Phnom Dongrek kilns in Thailand and the Phnom Kulen kilns in the Cambodia. The museum has the largest generally accessible collection of ceramics from the Tak-Omkoi sites located in western Thailand.

The ceramic shard archive and an extensive library are available for use by researchers.

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    Coordinates: 14°02′21″N 100°36′58″E / 14.039044°N 100.616049°E


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