Sustainability

Built in 1932, originally as a two-story Thai house used as a location for Chulalongkorn University Alumni Association, Chakrabongse building is one of the invaluable buildings on Chulalongkorn University campus. It is under care of Chulalongkorn University Memorial Hall, Museums and Art Gallery Unit, Office of Art and Culture. The first of the two floors…

Art & Culture Talk is a program on social media platforms by the Office of Art and Culture, Chulalongkorn University.   The program started mid 2020, when the country was under a lockdown due to Covid-19 pandemic, causing the music community nationwide to cancel or postpone its activities indefinitely.  With the purposes to keep the art…

Chamchuri Art Gallery, Chulalongkorn University has been a model of non-profit art organization that is recognized in the art community in Thailand for over 20 years.  Numerous renowned Thai artists have had their works curated by the gallery in the past, including Prathang Emcharoen, Chavalit Soemprungsuk, Prateep Kochabua, Chuang Moolpinit, Somboon Hormtientong etc. With 5,382…

Chulalongkorn University Museum: Chulalongkorn University Museum has a vision to be a learning resource that disseminates, through up-to-date media platforms, information on Chulalongkorn University, as well as its art and cultural works related to any field of study, making its work visible and recognized in the national and international levels.  The spacious museum, with a…

Nitas-Stan, a 3,725 square-foot venue in Art and Culture Building, holds exhibitions of works by famous Thai artists who are recognized in the national and international levels as collaborative efforts with foreign embassies and other country representative organizations in Thailand, for instance, Italian, Indian, Japanese, Mexican Embassies, and Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Thailand….

Daraphirom was a Chiang Mai residence of the late Princess Dara Rasmi, princess consort of King Chulalongkorn (1853-1910), to where, after the king’s demise, the princess received a permission from King Vajiravudh, King Chulalongkorn’s son and successor to the throne, to permanently return in 1914.  Princess Dara Rasmi decided on building her palace in Mae…

As the year 2020 saw the 120th year of the birth of the Princess Srinagarindra, Chulalongkorn University, in collaboration with HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Foundation, organized a concert in the honor of Princess Srinagarindra on the foundation day, November 1, 2020, in which Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn wrote a poem titled The Royal Grandmother’s…

Recording and preserving Thailand’s cultural heritage has always been one of the major focuses of the university.  Series of projects have been carried out to serve this purpose.  One of the many rewarding projects in 2020 was executed in conjunction with the university’s organization of Royal Kathin Ceremony at Wat Sala Pun Worawihan, a royal…

Since 1992, as the university’s commitment to strengthen the moral Thai society, Chulalongkorn University Dharma Centre Library at the university’s religious center has been responsible for offering dharma lectures for Chula community and the general public for more than 40 years to provide a deeper understanding of religious teachings.  As the Covid-19 pandemic started to…

Keeping records is always a challenge with Thai traditional music as it relies solely on oral transmission throughout centuries of its history, resulting in scarcity of resource, and challenges in preserving the authenticity and ensuring the continuation of the art. With this challenge in mind, Thai Music Library under Office of Art and Culture started…

“Phleng Ruang is the genre of Thai traditional music which revered music masters in the past have strung together.  It is one of the most treasured genres of Thai musicians, and an invaluable heritage passed on for generations of mentors.  To compare with archeology, Phleng Ruang is the most valuable artifact that is best kept…