• Thai Heritage Room

Objects exhibits in this room express the owner’s love towards Thai traditional artistic heritage by installing Thai traditional paintings brought from Chakrabhand Posayakrit’s Thai Traditional School of Art Conservation Project drawn as mural paintings in the chapel of Wat Tri Thotsathep Worawihan Temple, which has been rearranged on canvases under the supervision of Master Chakrabhand and Vallabhis Sodphrasert. Moreover, there are Ayutthaya and Rattanakosin porcelains, Buddha images, cabinets of Buddha images, Thai actresses’ headdresses and the Dharma scripture cabinet lasting from the age of King Rama IV. All are disposed on an elegant Thai daybed built in the middle of 25th Buddhist Century (approximately in the age of King Rama IV – King Rama V). In the main cabinet contains several kinds of puppets and marionettes together with khon masks built by masters from each art school. There are a powder-coloured painting covered by gold leaves which Sompong Akkhrawong, the artist, has imitated from a mural painting of Wat Amphawan Chetiyaram Worawihan Temple and Sompong Akkhrawong’s and Petch Viriya’s powder-coloured painting covered by gold leaves drawn installed on a wooden elephant illustrates the story of the divine elephant named Matamgi. The pieces of work here are proudly kept as our cultural heritages for the descendants.

• Portrait Hall

On the long white wall install many attractive portraits of people from different walks of lives with their own interesting background. Westwardly, there are Jules Joseph Hallez’s oil painting of an attorney wearing elegant black robe drawn on 1848 during French Revolution Wars, a crochet portraying a high-classed woman who sat reading a book, which represents women’s limited freedom in old days and an interesting portrait of Chinese wealthy person, the ancestor of the museum owner, which has been drawn by an Italian artist ten years ago. Upwardly, the portrait of our beloved H.M. King Bhumibol Adulyadej has been respectively placed in order to remind everyone of his hardworking time. Apart from the pictures mention before, there are more than 40 portraits of people like artists, politicians, actors, lawyers or even common men who died gracefully who attract and inspire Sermkhun’s heart. All portraits belong to well-known artists e.g. Sakwut Wisesmanee, Chamras Khietkong, Kritsada Phakawatsuntorn, Thanarit Thipwaree and Myrtille Tibayrenc, together with Atchalinee Kesornsuk, a new generation artist.  

• Chakkraband Posayakrit’s Room

Because Master Chakkrabhand Posayakrit is regarded as one of the most Significant Rattanakosin artists and the scholar of his own school of art expressing Thai traditional style who keeps on working in order to preserve Thai traditional artistic heritage and pass on to artists in younger generations for many years, Sermkhun, who has had chances to intimately give services to Master Chakkrabhand for more than 10 years, intentionally collects this great artist’s works, e.g.   Koh Samet : the oil painting on canvas drew from the real place when Master Chakkraband was just a third-year student, Khun Phaen and Wanthong  (1974): the delicate work inspired by literature and a traditional song named Khmer Bodhisattva, Wrap-around: the paper painting in pastel tones,  Goddess Manimekhala holding Phra Mahajanaka: the work showing the excellent skills that can effectively attract people’s hearts and imagination, White Lotuses:  the painting that represents the truth of life and  The God of Wind (2005): his remarkable work published on a calendar that grabs people’s attention by the god’s eyes, together with fluttering cloth and bushes. Additionally, Vallabhis Sodprasert’s breastplate built as a tiger holding a sword between its lips, which vividly expresses the art style belonging to Master Chakkrabhand’s school.