The Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum ( th, พิพิธภัณฑสถานเครื่องถ้วยเอเชียตะวันออกเฉียงใต้, links=no) is a
history museum in
Bangkok University,
Pathum Thani,
Thailand, displaying
Southeast Asian
ceramics.
The museum opened to the public on 11 May 2005.
Princess Maha Chaki Sirindhorn presided over the official inauguration of the museum on 20 November 2009. It exhibits ancient
ceramic production in Thailand and other Asian ceramics. This includes 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 from
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
,
Vietnam, and
Burma, as well as from Thailand. The collection also 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 of western Thailand.
The museum is open from Monday to Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and closed on Saturday, Sunday, public holidays and during the semester break periods of the university with free admission.
See also
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Roxanna Brown
Roxanna Maude Brown (May 2, 1946 – May 14, 2008) was a prominent authority on Southeast Asian ceramics and director of the Bangkok University's Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum. Her research of Ming Dynasty ceramics greatly improved knowledge o ...
References
External links
Museum website
Museum direction
Art museums established in 2005
Museums in Bangkok
Ceramics museums
University museums in Thailand
2005 establishments in Thailand
Thai pottery
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