Museums in Phuket
10 places in 5 districts
Districts
Museums in Mai Khao
Baan Ar Jor
Museum · Mai Khao BeachA three-storey mansion near Mai Khao built by a tin-mining businessman, long abandoned and now restored as a heritage house with rooms and a restaurant.
Museums in Si Sunthon
Peranakan Phuket Museum (Thalang)
MuseumA museum of Phuket's Peranakan culture in Thalang, with the exhibition upstairs and restaurants and a jewellery shop on the ground floor.
Thalang National Museum
MuseumThe national museum of Phuket's history, in Thalang near the Heroines Monument.
Museums in Kathu
Fantastic Phuket Museum
MuseumA museum in Kathu presenting Thailand's four historical eras — Sukhothai, Ayutthaya, Thonburi and Rattanakosin — where almost everything on display is also for sale.
Kathu Museum (former Kathu Liquor Distillery)
MuseumThe former Kathu liquor distillery of the Excise Department: three buildings run by the Kathu municipality, among them the heritage-listed distillery in a Sino-European style.
Phuket Mining Museum
MuseumA museum in Kathu on the tin-mining era that shaped Phuket, in a building and exhibits designed to recreate that time.
Museums in Talat Nuea
Baan Chinpracha (Chinpracha House)
Museum · Phuket Old TownA Sino-Portuguese family mansion on Krabi Road, opened as a museum while the owning family still lives in it.
Phuket Thai Hua Museum
Museum · Phuket Old TownA museum of Phuket's Chinese heritage on Krabi Road in the Old Town.
Thavorn Phuket Museum
Museum · Phuket Old TownA museum in the Thavorn Hotel on Ratsada Road, built in 1960, with a large collection on Phuket's mining era and daily life.
Museums in Talat Yai
Museum Phuket
Museum · Phuket Old TownA small museum of Phuket's Baba (Peranakan) heritage in the old town, in Sino-Portuguese buildings that are more striking than the modest exhibits.