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Ja Thawee Folk Museum
26/138 Wisuttikasat Road, Mueang Phitsanulok, Phitsanulok 65000
(+66) 55 212 749
https://www.facebook.com/sgt.maj.jathawee
Open daily except on Monday from 8.30 a.m. - 4.30 p.m.

This museum can best be described as an act of love by Sergeant Major, or Ja, Tawee,
who collected most everything you will see on display. The museum comprises three
interesting buildings set amidst gardens of local flora. The first, a wooden structure
built by the previous owner after the fire that devastated the central market, includes
vintage photographs of before and after the raging disaster along with photographs
that trace the province’s history. Building two, a more contemporary, two-story
wooden structure, displays the tools and equipment required for daily life in the past
from all regions of the country, with the majority coming from the lower northern
region with Pitsanulok as its hub. The third building is dedicated to the Song or Lao
Song ethnic group that migrated north from Petchaburi and Ratchaburi to Pisanulok,
settling in the village of Baan Laem Makha, Bang Rakam district. As the exhibition
depicts their lifestyle and customs, visitors are given a glimpse of their traditional
San Ruen, sacrificial rite to ancestors, and Kin Long, wedding ceremony. There is
also a collection of stones and fossils as well as traditional medicines and medical
instruments.
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