The Queen's Gallery - หอศิลป์สมเด็จพระนางเจ้าสิริกิติ์ พระบรมราชินีนาถ

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Spotted this as I was crossing the road - it was certainly impressive inside. Here is a description.

"The Queen’s Gallery has been established since August 9, 2003 from the initiation of Her Majesty the Queen Sirikit in order to be a space which displayed the work of Thai artists. The Thai artists which the gallery will focus on exhibiting have been broken down into two categories: The new Thai artists which his/her work has not been known by the society and the work of senior honored artists.

Her Majesty the queen has contributed back the fund which Mr. Chatri Sophonpanich, The committee chairman of Bangkok Bank, and the supporters has consecrate to Her Majesty in an occasion as Her Majesty proceed to offer an award in “Bualuang master painting to be a model for The Foundation of Art and Craft” at the head office of Bangkok bank on June 15, 2001. The money received from HM has been used as a fund to establish The Queen’s Gallery Foundation. Mr. Chatri has renovated Bangkok Bank, Phanfa Bridge branch, which used to be Bangkok Bank’s Musical Art Centre, into a modern art gallery. Her Majesty The Queen, with an honour of the art gallery, as give Her Majesty’s name for the art gallery to be used as ‘’Her Majesty The Queen Sirikit gallery” or commonly called as ‘’The Queen’s Gallery”. There are four floors for displaying art exhibition and the 5th floor could be utilize as activities are in order to integrate the knowledge and publicize the precious Thai works of art to the society." - text from Queen Gallery.org


I managed to get in free with my MUSE card - thank you Richard. It was certainly an impressive lobby - beautiful.


I believe that there was an exhibition of displays under the mourning period of 
His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej


On going further in I found that there were some quite clever paintings and for a few minutes I was lost...


Then there was a display of paintings and Southern Homes


Even the lifts doors were decorated. 

Phuket Town - places to visit

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Amulet Alley   

Art Galleries  

Climbing Wall   

Dried fish markets  

Guan Toong Herbal Store   

Hock Hoe Lee coffee merchant   

Hongsyok House - private

King Rama IX Park  

Local Market  

Monkey Hill  

Nguan Choon Tong Drugstore

Philatelic Museum

Phuket Old Town - a quick tour

Phuket Old Town Map

Phuket Thai Hua Museum

Phuket Walking Street

Queen Sirikit Park

Radsada Handmade

Rang Hill - Cemetery

Rang Hill - Statue

Sino Portuguese Houses

Soi Rommani

Street Art

Thavorn Hotel

Walking Street (Lard Yai)

After living in Phuket for 16 years we moved to Bangkok 

- here are some places to visit in Phuket Town.

Phuket Public Parks

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My first thought on being asked to write this was I wonder how many places would be called a 'Public Park'?

So what would it have to make it (for me) a Public Park.

 1) A degree of maintenance and care

 2) A degree of provision of children's playground

 3) A number of places to find refreshments close by

 4) Local people will be there for an activity.

Sapan Hin 

This would be my first choice and it is the park that we most frequent. With all of the above there are also regular activities which take place there - including motor car racing, a fun fair, regular festivals and more. There is a monument to commemorate Captain Edward Miles who was the first person to bring a tin mining dredger to Phuket in 1909 and is the the place for a finale of the Vegetarian Festival.

Suan Lang / Rama IX 

This is located just south of Phuket Town and is certainly an oasis. There may be all of the above but there is a lake where there is sometimes paddle boats, Tai Chi exercising, Takraw, feed the cat fish and a lot of people running in the early evening.

There is also a geocache here.

Nai Harn Lake 

This (I would imagine) is not really a park but a stretch of land surrounded by a lake AND the sea is very close - the land in the middle and surrounding the lake provides the visitor with a number of different things to do. I have seen people camping on the land in the middle, there is also a small children's playground and a chance to have a go at the pedalos.

Khao Rang Hill 

I have had the fortune to visit this peak in Phuket Town a number of times. There is a park at the top but it is not what I might first call a park - BUT we are in Phuket, Thailand. I would admit there is a Fitness Park on the hill as well but I must also admit that I have not seen people use this.

There is a statue of Phraya Ratsada Nupradit who was a Phuket Governor in 1902 and is credited with bringing rubber trees to Phuket.

Come hare to take some photographs of the view or eat in one of the restaurants - Khao Rang Breeze, Tunka Cafe or Phuket View.

Bang Wad Dam

Well this doesn't really include all of the top items but what the heck - we like to go up here to watch the birds!

Thalang Park - Phuket Town 

We like this was because it is near to the Indy Market and close to Queen Sirikit Park.

In fact there are too many parks to write about them all - I think that I will have to think of another way...

Phuket - places to visit

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Bang Pae Waterfall

Bang Rong Pier

Bang Wad Dam 

Big Buddha

Baba's Nest

Cape Phromthep

Cashew Nut Factory 

Chinese Shrines

Chinpracha House

Elephant Sanctuary

Gibbon Rehabilitation

Heroines Monument

Indy Market

Kao Khad Viewpoint

Kathu Waterfall

Khai Nui - Private Island

Khao Kad Viewpoint Tower

King Rama IX Park

Klong Mu Dong

Koh Racha

Monkey Hill - Telegraph Hill

Phuket Botanic Gardens

Phuket Cultural Centre

Phuket Thai Hua Museum

Queen Sirikit Park

Rang Hill

Sapan Hin  

Sarasin Bridge

Street Art

Telegraph Hill

Trickeye Museum

Upside Down House

Weekend Market - ตลาดนัดเจ้าฟ้าวาไรตี้ 

After living in Phuket for 16 years we moved to Bangkok 

- here are some places to visit in Phuket.

 

Queen Sirikit Park

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Chinese legend says that Phuket Island is a dragon risen from the water.

The khlongs in Phuket Town

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There seems to be a number of khlongs which run through Phuket Town but I seem to find very little information about them. But from the mechanisms which are scattered about I imagine that they were fully operational.

I did find a map after seeing so many Khlongs but I do not know how to find them all.
  

Here are some...

This was near the bypass 

This was near the Queen Sirikit park in Phuket Town

Some times the khlongs are full and flowing

Phuket Town has a plethora of bridges all over the place.

Phuket Town is really quite beautiful.

 But not always - sometimes there are people cleaning the khlongs of rubbish and soil. There are more khlongs which are being used in Bangkok and around Thailand - I feel that it would be a nice idea to have all these khlongs working again.