Thalang National museum Phuket

Thalang National Museum in Phuket is located in the east of Highway 402, near the Heroine's Monument, just off the main airport road, south of Thalang town in central Phuket. The museum displays the indigenous cultures of Phuket, the history of the Thais in Phuket, crafts from the southern Thai regions, as also a 9th century statue of the Hindu deity Vishnu.

Inside the museum one can explore the general Thai history. There are some old artifacts, which bears the history of the people of Thailand. There is also a section about different kind of people in Thailand - Chinese, Muslim, Indigenous (sea gypsies), etc, with mock-ups of homes showing the way these people lived.

A major section is devoted to the Heroines of Thalang who mobilized the people of Phuket to defeat the Burmese in 1785 AD. These two ladies are popular all over Thailand, but more especially in Phuket and Thalang, where roads, temples and schools are named after them.

Outside the Thalang National museum in Phuket there is a kind of tsunami memorial - a sculpture showing a spirit leaving a body.

Thalang National museum in Phuket remains open daily between 9 am and 4 pm. The entry fee is only 30 Baht.