Baan Dam Museum Review

I went to the White Temple in Chiang Rai in the morning. In the afternoon, this is the Black Temple. In fact, it is more like a small complex with many sculptures and other artworks. The theme of these works covers dark elements such as death, hell and so on, and the tone of the works is mainly black, so it is called the Black Temple.

It took 36 years to design and build by the Thai ghost artist Thawan Duchanee, but it is not a temple, but a museum. The museum has collected a large number of exhibits on death, integrating ancient animal bones, primitive hunting tools, etc. into various artworks. The giant seats of buffalo horns, the devil reliefs on wooden boats, the wind bell device made of animal skins hanging in the middle of the air, etc., give people associations about hell. Around the black temple are a dozen buildings decorated with bull horns, all of the buildings, exhibits, etc. are black as the tone, and are very different from the white temple, showing the difference between heaven and hell.

as name suggested a black house. the display is rather weird with many bones and skins. the most interesting sign is for the toilet.

nice museum but a bit dark on the art. sometimes feel like overload.

The Black Temple and the White Temple are both in the Qinglai Palace. Although there is no white temple famous, nor the kind of shock that the white temple brings to people, there are many things worth seeing in the Kun temple, which is a place that needs to spend more time. The Black Temple, also known as the Black House, is not actually a temple, but the home of Thawan, a Thai artist. Thawan designed the black house as hell and death. Therefore, there are many exhibits related to this theme in the Black Temple, such as Buffalo skulls lined up on the ground, animal fur and large shells on the table, giant seats made of buffalo horns in the hall and hunting tools of primitive tribes. In addition, there are many modern installation art expressing the theme of death in the black temple, such as using stones to display sacrificial totems of primitive tribes on the grass in front of the temple, and using large white animal fur to create a world of "death" in smaller temples. Walking into the exhibition hall of the Black Temple is like walking into a temple of ancient times. The depth of the hall is more than ten meters high, and the high roof gives people the illusion of reaching the sky directly. Sunlight shines through the windows on both sides, but only illuminates one corner of the hall. The rest is hidden in the nihility of darkness. The two worlds of light and darkness are distinct, and entering them is like shuttling between the world and the gloom. It is said that many of the exhibits have a history of thousands of years and Thawan collected them from all over the world with all his efforts. The external environment of the Black Temple is very good. It is a fresh idyllic scenery. There is no legendary gloomy terror at all. But maybe it's another scene when night falls.

Can you believe that the black temple and the white temple are teacher-student relations? According to the introduction, the owner of the white temple is a student of the owner of the black temple. How to say it? At first I saw the old and plain feeling. Later, I heard the guide introduce that I could not touch the skin of the crocodile skin and snake inside. Then I felt a little afraid. Who made me most afraid of snakes? Later, when the guide lobbied on the beam in the middle of the hall, the ashes of the owner of the black temple were placed in his heart, it was very strange. A piece of reverence, first came with the attitude of visiting, has now become a look-up, read some of the works on the scenic spots brochure, to be honest, I have too few artistic cells, some do not understand, it is estimated that people who really love art will find resonance here.