Chiang Mai Province

Museums in Chiang Mai

Museums & Culture

Chiang Mai’s cultural landscape features the 14th-century Wat Chedi Luang, known for its massive ruined pagoda and Lanna-style architecture. The National Museum preserves Northern Thai history and art, while the Highland People Discovery Museum provides ethnographic insights into the region's diverse hill tribes. Specialized collections include the Museum of World Insects and Natural Wonders, which displays extensive entomological specimens and fossils, and the Elephant Poopoopaper Park, an eco-friendly museum demonstrating sustainable paper production from elephant fibers.

Museums & Culture — Map

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Wat Chedi Luang

Historic Buddhist temple known for its large ancient pagoda and significant cultural heritage in Lanna architecture.

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Chiang Mai National Museum

The Chiang Mai National Museum is a national museum located in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand.

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Highland People Discovery Museum

The Highland People Discovery Museum, formerly known as Tribal Museum is an ethnographic museum in the Mueang Chiang Mai District of Chiang…

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Elephant Poopoopaper Park

Eco-friendly outdoor museum focused on sustainable paper production. Visitors observe the multi-stage process of converting elephant dung fibers into paper products through various cleaning, boiling, and drying stations.

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Museum of World Insects and Natural Wonders

Decent museum for somebody who's keen on biology. Quite a change from all the big elephants around!

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