Operating Hours

Operating Hours: 0900 - 1600 hours
Closed Monday, Tuesday, and Public Holidays
Admission Fee: Thai Citizen - 10 baht, All Others - 100 baht

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Khon Kaen National Museum was officially opened by His Majesty KingBnumiphol Adulyadej on the 20th of December, 1972. Most of the exhibitions are concerned with history, art, and archaeology. Temporary exhibitions are set up on a rotational basis throughout the year.
Exhibitions on the geography, history, archaeology, culture, and ethnology of the museum are arranged as follows:

The Geography and Geology of Pre-historic Period

Settlements, utensils, burial rituals, major archaeological findings

Ancient cities and communities

Period of Recorded History

Dvaravati Culture

Stone boundary markers, religion and beliefs, costumes, script, architecture, votivetablets, archaeological objects taken from the Muang Fa Daet Song Yang excavation site, Kamalasai District Kalasin Province.

Khmer or Lopburi Culture

Ancient cities and communities, religion and beliefs, ceramics Thai-Lao culture

Religion and beliefs, utensils used in daily life

Evolution of art in Thailand Muang Khon Kaen

Traces of the past, history of the city, way of life, folk culture.

Services
Educational activities such as tours, temporary exhibitions, educational documents andlibrary services, stalls, sales of books on art, archaeology, history, and souvenirs.

Khon Kaen Horse Racing Track

Racing is held every Saturday and Sunday except on holidays. Racing starts at 12:00 (noon) and goes through to 6:00pm for a total of ten races.

The information on this page is a bit outdated, if any visitors have more information or pictures, please contact KhonKaen.com if you are willing to share the information with others.

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Chonabot is most

Chonabot is most well known for its Mudmee silk and cotton that is produced locally. Mudmee is the process of tie-dyeing the threads before weaving it into fabric. Most fabric is produced from local residence homes, so the best way to see the production of Mudmee fabric is to drive around the village looking for looms in local yards. Most of the people weaving fabric would be more than happy to show a visitor the weaving process (and try to sell the fruits of their labor). There is also a local handcraft center (Suun Silapahattakam Pheun Baan) on route 229 10 located kilometers West from highway 2/Ban Phai. The center displays and sells a wide variety of handcrafted items from the region and is open from 09:00 am to 06:00 pm daily.

A word of caution: Very little English is spoken in Chonabot so if you do not speak Thai you may want to bring along a translator.

      Getting there:
Travel South on highway 2 from Khon Kaen city for 37 kilometers to the village of Ban Phai. Turn right onto route 229 and travel West until you reach the village of Chonabot. Suun Silapahattakam Pheun Baan handcraft center is located just West of the village of Chonabot (route 229). If you are feeling adventurous and want to make a day trip, Prasat Pueay Noi is located about 1 hour East of Chonabot and is an interesting 12th century Khmer temple ruin site.

Attractions

Bung Kaen Nakhon - Located in the southern region of the city, this lake is a popular entertainment area with numerous restaraunts and other entertainment.

Chonnabot Silk District - 60 km southwest from Khon Kaen, an area famous for its silk, it also hosts a Thai Silk Exhibition Hall.

Khon Kaen Horse Racing Track - Located on Mittraphrap Road between Lotus and Makro, there is horse racing almost every weekend.

Khon Kaen National Museum - Located on the northside of the city, open daily, this regional museum contains artifacts from the Ban Chiang and Fa Daet Song Yang (Kalasin) excavation sites.

Khon Kaen University- Located just outside the northern part of the city, this is the largest university in northeast Thailand. To go to the Computer Engineering Department just click the link.
Pha Nok Khao - 125 km west of Khon Kaen, this unique mountain extends into Loei Province and provides a scenic view of the surrounding country side.
Phra That Kham Kaen - 30 km northeast of Khon Kaen, this pagoda was built as the legend goes after two revered monks spent the night there and noticed a dead tree, upon there return later the tamarind tree had flowered. The pagoda was built over this hardwood log (kham kaen) and the city's (Khon Kaen) name evolved from this.
Phu Kao - Phu Phan Kham National Park - 56 km northwest of Khon Kaen, this national park offers guesthouses, trekking, and camping.
Phu Wiang National Park - 90 km northwest of Khon Kaen, the park has a scenic view of the surrounding mountains, the valley, caves, and waterfalls. The park contains several archaeological sites and dinosaur fossils.
Tortoise Village - 50 km south of Khon Kaen in Mancha Khiri District, approximately 2,000 tortoises reside in the main 4 rai Shrine and the surrounding area.   Most villagers do not have walls or fences to impede the touroises daily ritual of scavenging for food.

Ubolrat Dam - 50 km northwest of Khon Kaen, this is the largest dam in the northeast. The east side has the golf course and the west side has a swimming area.

Wat Jien Bung Kaen Nakhon - is located on the east side of Bung Kaen Nakhon Lake.  This temple is very popular on Chinese holidays.

Wat Nongwang - is located south of the city on Klangmuang Road.   A good view of  Khon Kaen city and Bung Kaen Nakhon Lake can be seen from the balconies surrounding the outside of the Temple.

Wat Wutharam - is located on Darun Samran Road just south of the train station.   Many people as part of there merit making buy fish at the local market and set them free in the small lake.

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Mercedes. Men and women dressed

An individual is just as likely to see water buffalo weaving in and out of traffic in Khon Kaen as they would a BMW or Mercedes. Men and women dressed for success carrying cell phones & leather briefcases are hustling through the marketplace at lunch time along side orange-robbed Buddhist monks. If hungry, one can purchase grilled chicken and sticky rice at a pushcart in front of Pizza Company. The old and the new integrated into one society that seems to work.

Welcome to KhonKaen

Welcome to KhonKaenfocus.com, the online resource for the city and province of Khon Kaen, including the Northeast region of Thailand. Khon Kaen is the commerce and political center of Northeastern Thailand, and is well known for the silk that is manufactured in the area. Khon Kaen is the home of tennis sensation Khun Paradorn Srichaphan. The province is also home of Thailand's First Olympic Gold Medallist, the 1996 bantam weight Khun Somluck Kamsing. Located in the heart of northeast region of Thailand (Isaan), this community was experiencing one of the fastest growth rates in Thailand until the baht was devalued in 1997. In the last several years, construction has restarted within the city, including the widening of Mitaprahp Road on the West side of Khon Kaen (Highway 2 Bangkok-Nong Khai). The present population of the city is around 150,000. The government had endorsed Khon Kaen as the export center for trade into the Indo-China Region, but politics may play a role in preventing this. Laos and Vietnam have located consulate offices in the city to process visa applications. The city also hosts the largest university in the North East, Khon Kaen University.