Tambon Bang Muang Mai Trip Overview
The Erawan Museum is well known for its giant three-headed elephant art sculpture as exterior. This is the first and biggest hand-carved sculpture in the world. It is considered an important tourist attraction as well as a holy shrine for many believers.
Erawan Museum started construction 1994 and has opened for the public since 2013. The building including the elephant sculpture is 43.6 meters in heights (equivalent of 14 stories building). The width of the elephant is 12 meters and length 39 meters. The weight of the elephant’s body is 150 tons, and the elephant’s head weights 100 tons. The outer layer of the elephant is lined with copper, the copper sheet 1.2 millimeters thick in various sizes from 4×8 feet to the smallest size that is a size of the palm. Every single copper sheet totaling in a hundred thousands sheets were slowly plated on with care and craftsmanship.
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Duration: 3 hours
Starts: Tambon Bang Muang Mai, Thailand
Trip Category: Sightseeing Tickets & Passes >> Attraction Tickets
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The Erawan Museum is well known for its giant three-headed elephant art sculpture as exterior. This is the first and biggest hand-carved sculpture in the world. It is considered an important tourist attraction as well as a holy shrine for many believers.
Erawan Museum started construction 1994 and has opened for the public since 2013. The building including the elephant sculpture is 43.6 meters in heights (equivalent of 14 stories building). The width of the elephant is 12 meters and length 39 meters. The weight of the elephant’s body is 150 tons, and the elephant’s head weights 100 tons. The outer layer of the elephant is lined with copper, the copper sheet 1.2 millimeters thick in various sizes from 4×8 feet to the smallest size that is a size of the palm. Every single copper sheet totaling in a hundred thousands sheets were slowly plated on with care and craftsmanship.
Visit: The Erawan Museum, 99 หมู่ที่1, Kanchanaphisek Rd, Tambon Bang Muang Mai, Amphoe Mueang Samut Prakan, Chang Wat Samut Prakan 10270, Thailand
The Erawan Museum Is a floating sculpture of a 3-headed elephant, a floating sculpture created by the first and largest hand knock method in the world Considered as an important and sacred tourist attraction Which should not be missed of Samut Prakan Province
The Erawan Museum was built in 1994 and has been officially opened to the public since 2013. The elephant body, including the building, is 43.6 meters high (equivalent to 14 floors). Of elephants, 12 meters, elephant body length 39 meters, weight of the elephant body 150 tons, and the weight of the head of the elephant 100 tons, copper plate, elephant outer body By using a sheet of copper about 1.2 mm in size, ranging in size from 4×8 feet to the smallest sheet of palm size Tap to decorate hundreds of thousands of pieces of patterns together with delicacy.