Jim Thompson House

The experience

This museum is the former home of Jim Thompson, an American who revived the Thai silk industry after founding the Thai Silk Company in 1948. His house, completed in 1959, is made of six traditional teak buildings collected from around Thailand and reassembled beside a canal, filled with his Southeast Asian art collection. Thompson vanished without trace in the Malaysian jungle in 1967, and the house has been kept as he left it.

A jungle-green pocket of old teak architecture and Asian art in the middle of modern downtown.

What a membership adds.

Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.