Ban Khamthiang (บ้านคำเที่ยง), i.e. ‘Khamthiang House’, also known in Thai as (พิพิธภัณฑ์เรือนคำเที่ยง) Phiphithaphan Reuan Khamthiang, i.e. ‘Khamthiang [Traditional] House Museum’, is an ethnographic museum under royal patronage that consists of an old Lan Na-style house from northern Thailand that was originally constructed in Chiang Mai over 150 years ago. It was donated to the Siam Society by its owner Mrs. Kimho Nimmanhaemin (กิมฮ้อ นิมมานเหมินท) and then reconstructed in Bangkok. The name Khamthieng is a reference and memorial to Mrs. Kimho’s mother, i.e. Mrs. Kamthieng Anusarnsunthorn (คำเที่ยง อนุสารสุนทร), who was born in this house. The museum exhibits the Lan Na way of life. The space under the house on stilts displays two large klong aew (กลองเอว) temple drums, tools used to make a living, such as a Jacquard loom for weaving, agricultural tools, objects used for rice offerings and sacrificial offerings for the ancestors, wood carvings, fabric talisman, ancient jewelry, kitchenware, and items and utensils used by Thai farmers and fishermen. The garden in which the house is rebuilt features different varieties of Thai flowers, trees, shrubs and plants. The house on stilts is today over 175 years old and is made from teakwood. Being from the north, its roofs are decorated with the typical kalae (กาแล), i.e. an V to X shaped, often flame-like ornament at the top of traditional gabled roofs in northern Thailand. The museum is situated adjacent to the Siam Society in Soi Asoke, off Sukhumvit Road, in the centre of modern Bangkok. One section of the museum, located in the east and appropriately named Reuan Saeng Arun (เรือนเเสงอรุณ), i.e. the ‘House of the Morning Light’ or ‘House of the Sunrise Gleam’, has been made into a street side coffee shop. The logo on the name board at the entrance to the museum consists of a talaew (ตาแหลว), i.e. strips of bamboo plaited into a star shaped object with five or seven points, found mainly in northern Thailand, where the hill tribes especially place them at the entrance to their houses or villages to keep away the spirits of the deceased. 回