Phra Pathom Chedi - Museum

The old temple museum, containing Mon stucco and stone sculpture, is in the wiharn north of the east entrance. The new museum, the more interesting of the two, dates from 1979 and is by the south steps. On the outside there are stone wheels of the law from Nakhon Pathom's earliest days while displays inside include those of coins and everyday objects plus statues of Buddha (including some very fine ones in Mon style), stone and terracotta sculpture, the reconstruction of a bas relief of the Chulapradit Chedi, and an original bas relief from Wat Sai, south of Nakhon Pathom, showing the Buddha preaching before his first disciples.

Nearby is the model of the Khmer prang, the original monument over which King Mongkut erected