On Tuesday, I spent the entire afternoon going through the massive collections at the Museum of Internation Folk Art and the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.
I'd already taken the extra precaution of putting in a brand new memory card and hiding the tiny memory card with all the mummy photos in a sneaky pocket sewn into my pants, so I wasn't really worried.
After spending a long time marveling at the mummies, I went back out into the rest of the museum (because there's SO MUCH TO SEE). The museum was getting ready to close and there weren't many people around, so I didn't even bother to hide the fact that I was taking photos.
There are signs posted all inside the museum that say "No Photos", but considering they let me walk right into the museum with my camera in my hand, I figured it was probably no big deal to snap a few pics. (I'm not gonnna go crazy in there, but otherwise, how the heck am I supposed to remember the stuff I liked that I saw?)
Anyway, I snapped a bunch of pics and didn't make an effort to hide what I was doing and nobody looked twice. After walking around the museum for a while, I leaned that you could pay extra to enter the Royal Mummy Room and see 27 royal mummies!
As I bought my ticket to see the mummies, it became clear the relatively laissez faire approach to security in the rest of the museum did not apply to the ROYAL MUMMIES section. Security was TIGHT inside...
The museum is filled with all sorts of really old Buddhist art where you can see the original Indian representations before the Thais developed their own distinct representations of the Buddha.
