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Museums and Monuments

Kathu Mining Museum, housed in a grand mansion
Kathu Mining Museum
1 Visitors can stroll through the old
MAP J2 • Kathu-Ko Kaeo
school house, which has interesting
Road, Kathu district • Open 8am– displays depicting daily life during
4pm Mon–Sat • Adm this period.
Paying tribute to Phuket’s rich tin-
Thalang National
mining heritage, this museum has 4
dioramas of early mining techniques, Museum
caves, and workers in action. Other Phuket’s national museum (see p92)
exhi bits in the Sino-Portuguese style has a range of displays on the Battle
mansion show tin-dredging opera- of Thalang, tin mining, sea gypsies,
tions and a model of an opium den. and the history of the Chinese on
Phuket. A magnifi cent 9th-century
Phuket Seashell
2 Vishnu statue, discovered in the 20th
Museum
century, stands in the main hall.
MAP H5 • 12/2 Moo 2, Viset Road,
Saphan Hin
Rawai • 07661 3666 • Open 8am– 5
6pm daily • Adm • www.phuket Mining Monument
seashell.com MAP K3 • Near Phuket Town,
Housing a private collection, the Phuket Road
Phuket Seashell Museum has more Located in a waterfront park, this
than 2,000 varieties of sea shells, monument is dedicated to Edward
including one weighing 550 lb Miles, the Australian ship captain
(250 kg), as well as the world’s who brought the first tin
largest golden pearl. dredgers to Phuket in 1909.
Big Buddha
Thai Hua
3 6
Museum
This 148-ft- (45-m-) tall
Originally built to serve as Buddha (see p82) sits high
a Thai-Chinese school, atop Nakkerd Hill, with
this 100-year-old sweeping 360-degree
structure (see p14) views that stretch from
today functions as a Chalong Bay to the
museum, exhibi tion
space, and Burmese marble
function hall. Big Buddha

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