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MahasurasinghanatMahasurasinghanat Building          
           The two brick buildings with two storeys in applied Thai architectural style were constructed as expansion of the National Museum Bangkok. The southern building was called “Mahasurasinghanat Building”, named after Vice-King Boworn Maha Surasinghanat, the first vice-king who found the Front Palace in 1782

           Which later became the National Museum Bangkok. The northern structure was named “Prapatphiphitthaphan Building”. Nowadays, Mahasurasinghanat Building displays the exhibition of foreign arts and Thai arts before 13th Century CE from Asian, Dvaravati, Srivijaya, Lopburi periods and ancient hindu sculptures. His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulayadach and Her Majesty Queen Sirikit presided over the opening ceremony of the building on May 16, 1967. The building, which as located north of the village of royal palace as Thai Ellington building built in 1967 called that Mahasurasinghanat Building exhibits Asian art and Arts in Thailand in age about 8th Buddhist century ago. 

Room of ancient idol Exhibits the idol
           in Brahmanism that found in Thailand, aged from about 10th to 14th Buddhist century include sculptures of Vishnu and Krishna, Phra Arthit, Shiva Leung as idols of Shiva and so on.

Prehistoric Room
         Exhibits archaeological stories and evidence in Thailand before had been the evidence record as letters since the evidence as stone tools over the last one hundred thousand years ago until find that human began living in the territory of Thailand approximately 37 000 years ago divided by the evolution of life and advances in manufacturing equipment is an anachronism.

Room of Javanese art
          Exhibits artifacts, art objects, sculpture stones from the island of Java, Indonesia, divided into the central Javanese art between 13th-15th Buddhist century and East Java age about 15th-19th Buddhist century as the artifacts that Hollunda government dedicated to His Majesty King Chulalonkorn, King Rama V.

Room of Dvarawati
           Exhibits artifacts, art objects in Dvarawati culture that was the culture in the early historic era about 12th-16th Buddhist century as Dhamachakra, Buddha carved stone, Bronze Buddha image, clay sculpture and decorative stucco architecture, inscriptions, replica stupas, accessories and pottery etc.

Room of Lopburi Arts
        Exhibits Khmer Art in Thailand including local art which influenced of Khmer art that historians and archaeologists called Lopburi arts, aged about 11th-18th Buddhist century

Room of Srivijaya arts
         Exhibits historical stories, artifacts and art objects from the southern peninsula about 13th-18th Buddhist century as Avalokitasavara Bodhisattava in Srivijaya arts from Chaiya district, Surat Thani province and bronze sculpture of Mahayana Buddhism in Srivijaya arts, Buddha Sheltered by Naga’s Hood in Srivijaya arts, etc.