Top 10 must-see museums in Bangkok – Take the tour less taken

Jim Parson is an architect from New York who set foot in Thailand as a soldier during World War II. He is well known for rebuilding Thailand's silk business. His home was rebuilt using several buildings and is home to a large collection of Asian silk and art. He disappeared into the Malaysian jungles mysteriously in 1967 after receiving the Royal Order of the White Elephant award. Since then his house which consists of curved roofs and made using teak wood has left largely unchanged.

Ancient city or Muang Boran is a large outdoor museum that occupies an area of over 9000 square metres. This immersive museum has more than 100 scaled down versions of famous Thai sites and building spread out its ground and is built to replicate the lay of the land of Thailand.

The palace of King Rama V's grandson Prince Paribatra is a lesser-known landmark; one of the 8 traditional Thai houses to be reconstructed according to its original specs. The house is full of the Prince's memorabilia similar to paintings, glassware and musical instruments. The palace is also home to pottery recovered from the UNESCO heritage site Ban Chiang.

This bizarre museum in Bangkok showcases how condom manufacturing started in Thailand is an attempt by the Ministry of Health in Thailand to encourage its residents to practice safe sex and eradicate the taboo behind using condoms.

This is a pathology museum that displays macabre items such as mummified corpses, accident victims, killers, dead bodies, body parts, mutated babies displayed in formaldehyde jars, a collection of parasites and skeletons. The museum was built as a learning lab for forensic and medical students despite how gruesome it sounds.

Housed in the old Wang Na Palace near the Grand Palace, this is one of Thailand's most important places for Thai culture, art and history that is included as an attraction in most Bangkok hotel packages. The museum showcases a large collection of items such as masks, dance costumes, traditional musical instruments and puppets. Made up of 6 buildings, the museum also consists of a Buddhaisawan Chapel that has several colourful murals of Buddha.

If you're staying at Chatrium Residence Sathon Bangkok then visiting M.R. Kukrit's (a prime minister, artist, writer and newspaper owner) house is something you should add to your to-do list. The house not only has a lush green garden but is also an architectural wonder that was made using 5 dismantled and reassembled traditional Thai houses. With its Khmer inspired gardens, open ground floor, lotus pond and miniature mai dat trees it's a great example of classic Thai architecture.

A quirky museum in Bangkok that showcases its efforts to minimize and enlighten buyers about intellectual property infringement and the long-term effects it can have on everyone involved. The museum displays a wide variety of counterfeit products that were seized based on tip-offs and cases raids conducted.

Also known as the Bangkokian, The Bangkok folk museum consists of 3 buildings and displays numerous exhibits depicting life in Bangkok before World War II. The owner of this museum, the daughter of the original dwellers of this house lives in a house close to this house, preserved it to showcase what life in Bangkok looked like during the mid-1900 before Westernization happened.

Also called the Discovery Museum, the Museum of Siam is an interactive museum that focuses on Thai history and its various aspects and Thailand's position in the present day. Each room has a variety of digital exhibits that visitors can interact with and will explain the ethnography and history of the region. Everything either has an English subtitle and/or translation and the staff are very helpful.