These Weird Museums in Thailand are Not for the Faint-Hearted

When we talk about Thailand, you probably think of visiting temples and top-rated beaches. Aside from these beautiful and historical places, the country has something else to offer including creepy and strange museums.

From fossils to mid-century items, here are five of the weirdest museums in Thailand.

Bangkok Corrections Museum

Situated in the former Bangkok maximum security prison that was demolished in 1987, Bangkok Corrections Museum uncovers the hideous life of Thai prisoners.

This weird museum in Thailand shows how the prisoners were brutally tortured or penalized in jail. You can travel back in time to see the old prison compound through photographs and life-sized wax figures depicting the execution scenes of the condemned inmates.

They were beaten with a whip 90 times before being decapitated and executed by three people using a sword. According to history, detainees also experienced torture and died through rifle execution, having rattan balls with nails kicked by an elephant, being placed in a coffin-like box and left under the sun without any open lids, and stabbing using sharpened bamboo sticks.

The Bangkok Corrections Museum opened a store where visitors can buy furniture and handicraft made by prisoners from all over Thailand.

Siam House of Bizarre Creatures

This small but weird museum in Thailand showcases a collection of strange creatures and real living animals such as a two-headed Florida turtle, heart-shaped Siamese turtles, faceless albino fish, two-tailed gecko, and many more.

They offer weekend tours from 9:30 AM to 5 PM for THB30 to THB150, depending on age. Special discounts can be applied if you know how to speak Thai.

Siriraj Medical Museum

A strong stomach is highly recommended!

This is one of the creepiest museums in Thailand that features medical treasures and specimens of pathology, forensics, parasitology, and anatomy. It is located in Siriraj Hospital, which is considered the oldest hospital and medical school in the country.

When you visit this weird museum in Thailand, you can see preserved human organs and bones diagnosed with various diseases right before your eyes. These organs are used by medical students for educational purposes only.

Other interesting human bodies you can see in the museum are pathological fetuses, human skin with tattoos, mummified corpse of a notorious serial killer, massive scrotum of a man with elephantiasis, dissected nervous system, parasitic worms, and the skeleton of the museum’s founder.

Thai Labor Museum

This weird museum in Thailand painted in red is located near the Makkasan railway station, which was previously a railway police station before it transformed into a museum.

The Thai Labor Museum presents the history of the country’s labor and is divided into different rooms that represent slavery, unfair rules and pay, industrial disputes and strikes, and resistance movement.

The last room exhibits hardships, exploitation, and political disenchantment through arts, music, and images of broken dolls and children who mourn for their mothers’ loss during the Kader Toy Factory fire in 1993.

The House of Museums

This interesting yet weird museum in Thailand houses nostalgic and freakish things from as far back as the 1960s. On the first floor of the building, a novelty store-like set-up will welcome you at the entrance where you can see eclectic toys, traditional medicines, and souvenirs.

Upstairs, there are vintage items such as a photo shop and equipment, an old cinema with flip seats, a printing press, a barbershop, old kitchen tools, and a table football.

Meanwhile, the third level used to display ancient chambers including an old classroom with the teacher’s cane, a record shop with vintage vinyls, and a wide collection of books, clocks, mobile phones, and other household items.