The Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles is located in the

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. The museum replaced the 1873 Ratsadakorn-bhibhathana Building (Thai: Hor Ratsadakorn Pipat) of the Royal Treasury Ministry by a request of Queen

Sirikit Queen Sirikit ( th, สิริกิติ์; ; ); born ''Mom Rajawongse'' Sirikit Kitiyakara ( th, สิริกิติ์ กิติยากร; ; 12 August 1932) is the queen mother of Thailand. She was List of Thai royal consorts, ...

in 2003. The building was the original organization of the current

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History

King

Chulalongkorn Chulalongkorn ( th, จุฬาลงกรณ์, 20 September 1853 – 23 October 1910) was the fifth monarch of Siam under the House of Chakri, titled Rama V. He was known to the Siamese of his time as ''Phra Phuttha Chao Luang'' (พร� ...

planned to set up a first centralize taxing system in

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. Chulalongkorn established the Ratsadakorn-bhibhathana Building (Thai: Hor Ratsadakorn Pipat) on 4 June 1873 to operate more efficient, more discipline taxing process, later became a formation of the Customs Department. Since the custom policy was complicated, it developed the organization and management to be more effective by corporate the department to under the control of the Royal Treasury Ministry or the current Ministry of Finance by Finance Minister of Thailand. Chulalongkorn appointed

Chaturonrasmi Prince Chaturonrasmi, the Prince Chakkrabatradipongse ( th, สมเด็จพระเจ้าบรมวงศ์เธอ เจ้าฟ้าจาตุรนต์รัศมี กรมพระจักรพรรดิพงศ ...

to be an executive of the organization with he closely oversaw it. The building was designed and built by an Italian. The current

which originally had collected the

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asset, established in the form of an organization, since it was the private purse of the

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. One of the purposes was to counter the influence of the

Bunnag family The House of Bunnag ( th, บุนนาค; ) was a powerful Siamese noble family of Mon- Persian descent influential during the late Ayutthaya kingdom and early Rattanakosin period. Originally of Persian Islamic descent, they converted en masse ...

who had been in control of wealth collection since early Rattanakosin. In 1875, the Royal Treasury Ministry established at the Ratsadakorn-bhibhathana Building.

Textile museum

Queen

requested a permission to renovate a vacant building in 2003 to be a textile museum.

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