The Princess Mother Memorial Park in Bangkok Travel
This tourist attraction is located on Thonburi bank. Just cross the Phraphutthayodfa bridge at Pakkhlon talad then you will reach it. If you start at the Royal Field, you can take number 43 or every number that goes Klongsan district.
The history of the place
Somdet Phra Sri Nagarindra The Princess Mother Memorial Park
Nearly 100 years ago, a young girl who was then daughter of a goldsmith, but would later be Her Royal Highness Sri Nagarindra the Princess Mother lived in a small rented house behind Wat Anongkaram. This was the first home that she could remember, and a school near Wat Anongkaram was the first school she attended. Her Royal Highness Sri Nagarindra the Princess Mother, who was affectionately called “Princess Grandmother” of the Thai people, remembered in great detail this simple home in a mixed community of several ethnic groups and religious faiths. Her son, His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, wanted to honor his mother on her eighth 12 year cycle (96th) birthday by preserving her childhood home; but unfortunately the house had long age been turn down. Luckily, when Mr.Daeng and Mr. Lek Nana learned of the search for the house, they donated a 4 rai (0.64ha) plot near the original home.
His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej decided in 1993 to renovate this plot, once the home of Chao Phraya Sriphiphat Rattanarajakosathibode (Pae Bunnag), Director General of the Royal Cargo Department during the reign of His Majesty King Rama V, to be the Somdet Phra Sri Nagarindra The Princess Mother Memorial Park.
One of the older buildings, from the time of His Majesty King Rama III, has been converted into a museum on the life and work of Her Royal Highness the Princess Mother and on the neighborhood where she first grew up. A replica has also been built of her original childhood house, while the grounds have been developed as a community park where a variety of activities are held for people of all ages of the neighborhood and other visitors.
Tourism Promoting Department of Thailand, Bangkok City
opening time: official hour
charge: free
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