[Photo from bangkoktourist.com]

Originally, the Suan Phakkad palace area was the garden of a Chinese man, used to grow lettuce plants. Major General Prince Chumphot Phong Boriphat Krom Mamuen Nakhonsawan Sakphinit who was the son of Somdet Chaofa Boriphat. They shifted to the palace to stay permanently at the end of the world war 2. The start of the conversion of the palace into a museum was when the royal highnesses began to display their collection of antiquities to their friends and acquaintances who visited to admire their Thai houses. It was after that the royal highnesses contemplated to open the display of their collection of antiquities to outsiders. The ancient artifacts on display dated from the pre-historic time until the Ratanakosin era. The collection include art objects from countries in the Asian region.

In the compound of the Suan Phakkad palace museum, there are traditional Thai houses, the lacquer pavilion, the Marasri gallery, and the Ban-Chiang museum. The exhibition include ancient artifacts that are hard to find such as cord-marked pottery, antique Thai weapons, painted Thai design porcelain, bronze images from different periods, etc. The Suan Phakkad pakace museum is open everyday from 9:00-16:00.