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Visit Baan Museum, visit Bangkok, Soi Sala Thammasop 3. If you are a person who likes to think back to the old days, whether when you were a child or a young teenager, have you ever thought of the fountain pen you used? Think of printed glasses, detergent boxes, or toothpaste brands from when you were a child and want to see those things again? You don't have to go far (I mean, if you're in Bangkok). Come to Baan Museum of Khun Anek Nawigamune, a famous historian. Coming here, you might find your own past here.
Yes, we all like to think about the past because the past is what tells us our history.
Sookjai Weekend tells readers who drive here that you can turn into Soi Sala Thammasop 3. Don't pay attention to the sign at the entrance of the alley that says it is the entrance to the Children's Museum because the Thawi Watthana district made the wrong sign (haha). They installed it without knowing that the Children's Museum had moved to build behind Chatuchak a long time ago and is now a much larger museum. As for Soi Sala Thammasop 3, it is Baan Museum.
Opening GPS yourself is more reliable than the signs of government agencies. Heh heh.
The entrance fee is only 40 baht with a lot of old stuff from the past that has been donated almost entirely. It was able to adapt a three-story house in Soi Sala Thammasop into a museum that allows photography. Just entering, Sookjai Weekend found the fountain pen that I used when I was in elementary school. Moreover, it is not only displayed, it is also sold at a price of 80 baht per pen. This kind of fountain pen is the one that made many white school uniforms stained with blue ink because you have to pump the ink into the pen yourself. When writing, when the ink runs out, you have to refill it, which is fun for the kids.
The ground floor is a small, cute coffee shop with a corner selling history and literature books. For those who want souvenirs, there are many types to choose from, including T-shirts or notebooks printed with images of past publications. There are plenty to choose from.
Everyone will probably like the museum's exhibition, where they arrange things to match by dividing them into different types of shops, especially the toy store on the ground floor. If you bring your children, they will have fun looking at old toys, both parents and children, because looking at the photos of Sookjai Weekend, you will see that there are a lot of things on display, and there may be one that we played with when we were children.
Look at the advertising style of selling Eagle brand tobacco from the British American store in the past. "Always have one pack in your pocket." I guess you smoke until you get hemorrhoids in your nose.
If we're being honest, readers who come to visit Baan Museum, no matter what era they are from, will probably like the things that we are still familiar with, such as the Halls candy tin (if you remember, when you were a child, you would walk to the grocery store in front of the alley and have to reach in and grab 3 pieces yourself for 1 baht, not put in a 10 baht bag in a modern trade like today) or the cup that was made as a free gift from the Ovaltine brand drink in the picture. When you see it, you have to exclaim, "Oh, did they used to call Ovaltine powder this?" or "Wow, in the old days, Darlie toothpaste was called Darkie?" That's because we have shared experiences with the things on display in this museum.
The highlight is the simulation of a small cinema in the museum. They went to the trouble of finding several folding wooden cinema chairs to set up. This cinema is showing the movie Ruean Phae. It is written on the board that it is shown 3 times a day, with 1 more show on Saturdays and Sundays, but Sookjai Weekend didn't wait to see the movie.
Sookjai Weekend has written about Talat Phlu, both about traveling and tasting delicious food, and also wrote that the old name of Talat Phlu is Bang Yi Ruea (you can find it on the sookjai.club website. Search within the website for "Talat Phlu"). When visiting Baan Museum, I also came across the Bang Yi Ruea Association sign. Look closely, this association sign has gold leaf pasted on it.
The atmosphere of tape stands, book stands, and magazine stands in front of roadside shophouses that have disappeared has become the era of music streaming like Joox or spotify, or the corner for collecting old novel covers is arranged in a good atmosphere, according to the concept of Baan Museum that says "Collect today, tomorrow it will be old."
In addition, visit the retro barber shop, the old school, or the Singhanakhon District Office. Don't forget to stop by the dessert shop that has an ice shaving machine, the kind that we used to sit and wait in front of the shop. The seller would use force to turn the ice shaving machine, pour Hale's Blue Boy red syrup, followed by condensed milk. This is as delicious as bingsu these days.
Finally, before leaving Baan Museum, come down and sit at the Chuen Jai coffee shop and order some fresh milk. They serve it with a free gift of two small crackers. It's because the rain poured down without warning. I sat there until the electricity went out twice before the rain subsided. For those who have old items that have been passed down from the past, strange utensils that are not expensive, but you want others to see them, try contacting Baan Museum yourself.
