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Bangkok Post
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Bangkok Post
TAT marks anniversary with special fair
To mark the 65th anniversary of its tourism magazine Osotho, the Tourism Authority of Thailand is holding "Osotho & Friends Garden Fair", at Museum Siam, Sanam Chai Road, from tomorrow to Sunday, daily from 11am to 8pm. The weekend fun will be packed with activities and performances, plus a flea market featuring a selection of community shops to offer unique craft works, eco-friendly home decor items, upcycled products, ceramics, as well as delicious dishes by famous food shops from across the country. Besides an exhibition to take visitors back in time to the tourist attractions of yesteryear through a rare collection of black and white photographs, there will be a light talk with famous eco travellers and influencers -- Pimlada "Pear" Chaiprichawit, Tatrawee Harikul and Benjapop Benjathammatorn. The fair will present a series of art and craft workshops where visitors will learn to make soybean sauce, flower-scented powder, a keychain from microplastic trash, eco-print on fabric, a moss ball (kokedama) and paint a travel picture using watercolour. This is also an opportunity to witness a khon performance by a children troupe, a demonstration on Engkor face painting and a funny magic show by The Jack Comedy from Thailand's Got Talent. Set to perform a mini concert in the evening will be Maew Said Leb from The Voice tomorrow, Thee and The Dudes on Saturday, and Landokmai on Sunday. A highlight is an exclusive fan meet with Gulf Kanawut on Saturday.
Time Out
15-07-2025
- Time Out
Meet the Thainosaurs: Thailand's lost giants roar again
Dinosaurs may have bowed out 65 million years ago, but they refuse to stay buried. Their bones, like half-finished sentences, keep surfacing – dragged into the present by palaeontologists and the stubbornly curious. Thailand, not typically the first country that comes to mind when you think of ancient lizards the size of buses, is quietly rewriting that narrative. It's not just temples and tropical fruit – beneath the soil lie secrets older than myths. The Thainosaur exhibition makes this point with a subtle kind of grandeur. In the collective imagination, dinosaurs belong to places with wide deserts, fossilised bones half-buried in ochre earth and a cowboy holding a brush. Not Thailand. But this exhibition wants you to reconsider everything you thought you knew about this humid, noodle-filled strip of land. Because once, it was prowled by giants – real ones. Running from now until November 2 at Museum Siam's riverside offshoot, Museum Pier, Thainosaur doesn't just hand you a plastic dino and a souvenir sticker. It lures you back hundreds of millions of years and then kindly walks you through it all. With realism, drama and the occasional sauropod. Entry is from 10am-6pm, daily. Here's how the journey unfolds: Ground floor Forget Hollywood's A-list reptiles – this level is all about the ancients who crawled, swam or slithered before the dinosaurs took over. Here you'll meet Isanosaurus, an early sauropod who, quite frankly, doesn't get enough attention. Fossils are real, labels are legible, and the sense of time collapsing is pleasantly overwhelming. Second floor The heart of the exhibition, and where things begin to feel like a fever dream from Natural History GCSE. Towering reconstructions of Chalawan thailandicus (an eight-metre crocodile, in case you needed nightmares), plus the celebs of the Thai dino world – Siamotyrannus, Phuwiangosaurus, Kinnareemimus, and Siamosaurus. If you're not saying these names aloud by the time you leave, did you even go? Third floor Here, extinction plays out in bones and beautifully tragic backstory. Siamraptor and other Thai-origin fossils are displayed in both original and replica form, curated with care and a quietly theatrical sense of finality. But it's not all death – prehistoric sharks, crocodiles and elephants make cameos, alongside surprisingly accurate animations mimicking their ancient movements. And just as you begin to question the point of returning to the present day, contemporary artworks step in. Inspired by these ancient beasts, the pieces straddle science and story, fossil and feeling. Running from now until November 2 at Museum Pier. Thai visitors pay B150 for children and B250 for adults, while foreign guests are charged B250 for children and B350 for adults.
Time Out
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Cultural District 2025 transforms Ong Ang Canal into a living museum
If there's one thing we can count on in Bangkok, it's that the city never runs out of creative events. This time, Museum Siam is joining forces with the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) for an art festival called Cultural District 2025. Running from July 11–13, this extravaganza comes with a theme, ' Phra Nakhon on Ong Ang: BKK by the Canal', transforming the historic Ong Ang Canal into a living museum. Expect dynamic murals, eye-catching projection mapping and interactive installations that bring the Big Mango's cultural memory back to the surface. The fair spans six landmark buildings along the canal, which will be turned into massive canvases by a mix of local and international artists. Highlights include Ong Ang of Yesteryear by Dewy (Chanin Sriboon) at the MSM Building, Layers of Time: A Memory of Tramways Past and Present by Karoon Jeamviriyasatean at the S. Ampaiyon Building and Evolucar, a projection mapping piece by Phiphat Sawangwong-anan, lighting up the T. Siriyon Building on Boriphat Road. There's more than just art on walls as well. Expect panel talks, workshops and historical walking tours led by artists, designers and cultural historians. You can also check out the Ong Ang Art Market, where you'll find handmade crafts, street food and live performances by BMA's Music Division.
