A glimpse into our cultural past
Members of the public will have a rare chance to see historical pictures of the Royal Family and Thailand's cultural past, many of which are more than a century old, in a mobile exhibition being planned by the National Archive.
A postman delivers mail to a family during the reign of King Rama V, one of more than 70 rare photos to be exhibited.
Among the outstanding exhibits are a photograph of King Rama IV at a Royal Kathin Ceremony at Wat Phra Chetuphon in 1865, a foreigner's drawing of a student in class from the reign of King Rama III and a photograph of King Rama V and Tsar Nicholas II during the former's visit to Russia in 1897.
The exhibits also include century-old pictures of common people's everyday lives.
The National Archive yesterday held a seminar for 250 teachers from schools in Bangkok and surrounding areas on how to educate students and the public on the benefits of keeping archives.
The mobile exhibition is planned as a follow-up to the seminar as a way of promoting more use of public archives.
Sureerat said Thai students below undergraduate level rarely visited the National Archive's library, while regular clients were graduate and postgraduate students, whose number averages 25 a day. - The Nation
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