Overview
Thawan built it over forty years until his death in 2014, mixing Lanna temple forms with a collection of skulls, crocodile skins and buffalo horn — the work is about death and appetite rather than purity, and it unsettles people who arrive expecting a temple. Some of the material was legally obtained decades ago and would not be today, which is worth knowing rather than discovering inside. The main hall is a long wooden building with a table laid in horn.
Highlights
See it after the White and Blue temples; the three together are one argument in three colours and this is the third voice. Allow an hour and read the labels — much of the collection is Thawan’s own sculpture rather than found material. Not everyone will want the animal remains, and there is no way to see the estate without them.