Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles, Textile museum in the Grand Palace, Bangkok, Thailand

Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles is a textile museum inside the Grand Palace in Bangkok, Thailand, occupying the Ratsadakorn-bhibhathana Building. The building holds display rooms with royal garments, traditional weaving, and changing exhibitions that show how cloth is made from thread to finished piece.

The museum began when Queen Sirikit requested the use of a vacant building on the palace grounds, and the Ratsadakorn-bhibhathana Building was granted for this purpose in 2003. It opened to safeguard Thai textile arts, drawing on the queen's long effort to promote regional weaving.

Inside, the displays of royal court textiles show how silk, gold thread and local weaving patterns have been kept alive through generations. The shop at the end also sells handmade silk flowers and cotton pieces made by craft groups from different parts of the country, turning the visit into a direct connection with working artisans.

You can enter daily, and if you already have a Grand Palace ticket, the visit is covered without extra cost. Since the building sits inside a large palace complex, wearing comfortable shoes and allowing time to move between different areas makes the visit easier.

Many visitors walk right past the museum while heading to the palace's more crowded monuments, not realizing that the entrance is already covered by their palace ticket. Inside, a quiet room shows contemporary artworks made from woven and dyed pieces sent by different communities across Thailand, giving a view of cloth that goes far beyond old costumes.