Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles

The Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles (Thai: พิพิธภัณฑ์ผ้าในสมเด็จพระนางเจ้าสิริกิติ์ พระบรมราชินีนาถ, RTGS: Phiphitthaphan Pha Nai Somdet Phra Nang Chao Sirikit Phra Borommarachini Nat) is located in the Grand Palace in Bangkok Thailand.

The museum replaced the 1873 Ratsadakorn-bhibhathana Building (Thai: หอรัษฎากรพิพัฒน์; RTGS: Ho Ratsadakon Phiphat, lit.

Chulalongkorn established the Ratsadakorn-bhibhathana building on 4 June 1873 to improve efficiency, It later became the Customs Department.

One of the purposes was to counter the influence of the Bunnag family who had been in control of wealth collection since early Rattanakosin.

[6] Queen Sirikit requested permission to renovate a vacant building in 2003 to be a textile museum.

Ratsadakorn-bhibhathana Building in 1900s