STUDENTS VISIT MUSEUMS: GETTING HISTORICAL INFORMATION IN CHIANG MAI CITY ARTS & CULTURAL

By: Al Fauzi Rahmat

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(Wednesday, 17th January 2018) Through this visit, Thai Student and International Student (UMY) at School of Administration Studies Maejo University getting chance for learning all about historical in 2 (two) museum places in Chiang Mai i.e. Lanna Folklife Museum and Chiang Mai City Arts & Cultural Center.



The first visit in Lanna Folklife Museum, this museum provide a lot of information about the historical Lanna people (Thai: ล้านนา). Besides the history, this museum offers a lot of relic’s heritage a Lanna people in Northern Thailand. Lanna Folklife Museum that has 2 floors has many rooms such as goods supernatural powers objects collection, clothes collection, worship offerings, stucco sculpture, the process of mural painting, metal casting sculptors and all. In addition an International Student and Thai student has lecturer to explaining each rooms in museum.

The next visit in the Chiang Mai City Arts & Cultural Center, this museum bigger than Lanna Folklife Museum, for this museum giving the historical information about the Chiang Mai and Northern Thailand places, this second chance we were taught everything about Chiang Mai province and the society-life in earlier time.

This museum has many rooms such as the historical king of Chiang Mai, Map/ locations of various temples and Chiang Mai province borders, traditional home, traditional fabrics collection, photos several local people, and all. This museum provide a digital electronics to support the historical information for visitors.

After this visited, hopping getting a lot of knowledge about Thailand especially Chiang Mai province such as historical, Lanna, art and culture. Thank for chance for Thai and International Students for join this activity.