Charoen Chai Community Museum In Bangkok

What a cute museum. The place is a love letter to the Charoen community, a part of old Chinatown. Like every Chinatown around the world, the one in Bangkok was established by poor laborers, looking for work and a better life. The neighborhood is still a warren of tight alleys, filled with small shops, humble lunch places, small apartments. The Chareon museum is preserving a tiny bit of the patina before it's all gone.

Front entrance. Not a fancy, restored building, just the former apartment of some Chinese opera performers.

Artifacts and memories. The museum is only one big room with a bit of a random collection of items that represent the community.

Leftover opera, theater costumes and props.

Pillars of time in Chinatown, a gritty office and a humble altar.

Old, hand painted advertising poster for some sort of hair tonic, treatment. Neat.