Thavorn Phuket Museum

The Thavorn is two things at one address: a working hotel from another era, and an accidental museum built from what the owning family never threw away. The pub…The Thavorn is two things at one address: a working hotel from another era, and an accidental museum built from what the owning family never threw away. The public halls hold mid-century decor, architectural details, photographs and cabinets of curios from the town's trading days, dense in a way purpose-built galleries rarely manage.

It takes minutes to see and lingers longer than most collections, and its Ratsada Road position drops it in the middle of any old-quarter walk.