A leafy canal-side oasis in the heart of Thailand’s frenetic capital, the former home-turned-museum of “silk king” Jim Thompson has long drawn visitors for its (), the compound has even more on offer. First, there’s a biographical exhibition space that charts Thompson’s trajectory from a young architect in the United States to his service with the OSS spy agency during World War II to his postwar relocation to Bangkok, where he established the Thai silk company that now bears his name — almost singlehandedly reviving the local silk-weaving industry along the way. An adjacent gallery celebrates the company’s achievements in the wake of its founder’s mysterious disappearance in the Cameron Highlands of Malaysia back in 1967.
