CALENDAR
Oct 28, 2019
Orientation Date: October 29th, 2019; 9:30am - 12.00noon; Walking dates (2020): Jan 14, Jan 21st, Jan 28th, Feb 04th, Feb 11th, Feb 25th; Walks start at 8.00am and last about 4 hrs; max 20 participants (priority to NMV members); registration fee: THB 300.-; Organizers: Claudia Cordon & Montse Amado.
Historic Neighbourhood Walks - Bangkok 2020
Let's join to do walks in the Historic Neighbourhoods of Bangkok! Your part is to join a small sub-team, to plan a 3-4 hour walking tour for the others. Each tour includes a rest stop and place for quick lunch (optional) afterwards. This activity is planned to meet once a week for 6 consecutives Tuesdays and you are required to attend all of them. Since we have almost covered all Barrett's "22 Walks in Bangkok" book... we are proposing new and exciting routes thanks to the extended public transport lines!
Yes! we know you can do it on you own... but how much more fun is it to share and explore together?!! In the orientation day we will create teams and decide areas to be visited which can be chosen from the ones we will be proposing or any one you might have in mind.
Nov 30, 2019
Daily from December 1st, 2019.
Arts of the Kingdom exhibit and the Khon education center: Free shuttle bus service from Na Phra Larn Road outside the Silpakorn University gates
Arts of the Kingdom Museum in Koh Kerd, Bang Pa-in, Ayutthaya province.
The exhibit showcases important artistic pieces from Queen Sirikit's Foundation.
From 1st December there will be a free shuttle bus service for Thais and foreigners, leaving from Na Phra Larn Road outside the Silpakorn University gates (opposite where tourist exit from the Grand Palace.)
The first bus leaves at 10.30, and returns from the museum at 14.00.
The second bus leaves at 12.00 and returns at 15.00. Passengers will be returned to the Sanam Luang area.
The buses can carry 50 passengers each time.
They operate from Tuesday - Sunday. There is no service on Monday and during New Year and Songkran holidays.
Please note: the Arts of the Kingdom Museum will be closed from 28 December 2019 - 6th January 2020.
Tickets: Foreigners visiting the Grand Palace can use their entrance tickets to get into the museum without additional costs. Other visitors to the museum can buy tickets on arrival at the museum.
For further information please phone 035 352 995 or 02 283 9557.
Map (Arts of the Kingdom Museum)
Jan 15, 2020
Auditorium, National Museum Bangkok; 10am; NMV-members THB 100, Non-members THB 200.-.
Narrating ruins in an urban landscape: Mrauk U and the history of the Rakhine kingdom by Jaques P. LEIDER
Mrauk U was the Buddhist capital of the Arakanese Kingdom from the 15th to 17th Century and an important trading port on the Bay of Bengal. Like other Southeast Asian cities of the past, it offers to the visitor a site of dispersed ruins of mainly religious stone architecture and an eroded palace site amidst a bustling mid-size Rakhine town. Some temples are still in use, others are dysfunctional or partly reconstructed, heaps of stones point to former stupas, moats have dried up and stone
inscriptions kept in the museum bear few explanations. Chronicles, foreign accounts and local voices tell stories that are not reflected in the material heritage. The presentation will deal with the challenge for the historian, the local teacher or the casual guide to Mrauk U how to narrate the history of a capital and a kingdom from the sparse material legacy, the available textual evidence and an understanding what the site and its monuments can mean today for a variety of audiences.
Feb 21, 2020
2-Days trip by Piriya Foundation; 22nd and 23rd February 2020; min. 20 Participants; Cost pp THB 6000.- in doubleroom, THB 6500 in single room; further details see flyer.
Discovering the sacred land of Sri Thep - 2 Day Excursion
Sep 30, 2020
Next Guiding Workshops in English, French and German: October 2020