Phuket Thai Hua Museum

Thai Hua is the old town's cornerstone museum: a landmark 1934 building, formerly a Chinese-language school, whose galleries follow the migrants from southern C…Thai Hua is the old town's cornerstone museum: a landmark 1934 building, formerly a Chinese-language school, whose galleries follow the migrants from southern China who became the town's miners, merchants and founding families. The rooms cover language, food, festivals and the family networks still visible in today's surnames and shrines, with a coffee shop off the courtyard for the pause afterwards.

Of the old quarter's heritage houses, this is the one that explains all the others, and the sensible first stop.