Muang Boran - Ho Kham

The upper floor of the Ho Kham (Golden Hall) houses a collection of stone and bronze sculptures, and ceramic, wood and mother-of-pearl works of art from Thailand's advanced civilization. The prize exhibit is the most recent, a representation of about 70 episodes in the life of Buddha, hand carved from a single piece. The artist was 80 when he completed this work after ten years. The Ho Kham building is itself an original replica of the earlier governor's palace in Lampang, an example of Thailand's exceptional craftwork; the entire wooden building was constructed without a single nail.