The Bangkok National Museum is Thailand's main national museum and one of the largest in Southeast Asia. It occupies the former Front Palace, or Wang Na, of the vice king, at 4 Na Phra That Road, facing Sanam Luang. The article names no architect or style. King Chulalongkorn set up the first public museum at the Grand Palace to show his father Mongkut's collections, opening it on September 19, 1874.
The article gives conflicting dates for the museum's founding. The lead and history place it in 1874, while another section says it was set up in the former palace in 1887. The vice-king's post was abolished, and the museum moved in 1887. It was renamed the Bangkok Museum in 1926 and came under the Fine Arts Department in 1934.
The Buddhaisawan Chapel, built in 1787, has murals of the Buddha's life. In May 2024, two bronzes were repatriated from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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