The Bangkok dolls Museum was founded in 1957, the famous master on their manufacture of Khunyoung Thongkam Chandavimol. She was trained in one of the best schools in the world for creating dolls “Ozawa” in Tokyo (Japan) and for his skillful work and the fine sense of beauty has received an award from the king of Thailand.

The Museum collection includes about 400 Thai handmade dolls. They are valued by collectors worldwide and are recognized at the international level. At the international competition of dolls in Krakow (Poland) in 1978, the collection of the Bangkok Museum won the main prize “the gold feather of the peacock”. On the needlework contest organized by the Ministry of industry of Thailand in 1982 on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Bangkok, the Museum's collection also took first place.

Largely dolls in the Museum cover the following thematic aspects: rural life in Thailand's mountainous Northern tribes and traditional Thai costumes. But it has a section that includes traditional costumes from all over the world, including Russia, Australia, Greece, South Korea, Belgium, China and many others.

The highlight of the Museum collection dolls are dramatic presentation of Khon based on ancient Thai epic, Ramakien. The story, as told by the dolls, based on the confrontation of good and evil. Individual attention is the collection of Khon masks from Ramakien. Their production even in full size takes incredible work, not to mention their miniature versions.

All the dolls in the Museum are divided into the Antiques of historical value, and those that can be purchased in a private collection.