Visit Jim Thompson House (Bangkok)

The Jim Thompson House is a museum in Bangkok entirely devoted to the American businessman who helped to revitalize the Thai silk industry in the 1950s and 1960s. Architect, Jim Thompson enrolled in the U.S. Army, made the Europe campaign and arrived in Asia with a contingent trying to restore the independence and freedom of Thailand. At the end of the war, he became an CIA officer in Bangkok, settled there and became fascinated with Thai silk. He imposed it gradually as a benchmark of quality in the high places of fashion in Europe: Paris, Milan, London ... His mysterious disappearance in 1967 during a weekend with friends in the Cameron Highlands in Malaysia, makes his life even more legendary. Today, we still do not know exactly what happened to him then. At the time of his disappearance, jim Thompson was the most famous American living in Asia.
The Jim Thompson House Museum is a complex of several old Thai houses that Jim Thompson had collected throughout Thailand and rebuilt here. The museum houses art and furniture he collected during his travels in Asia or received as gifts. The museum is also dedicated to the silk industry.