The Bla-naw-roof group of Buildings

The Bla-naw roof is a blend of the Panya roof and the gable roof, also called “ Manila gable roof, ” the roof being of Panya style with gable at the top for ventilation and prevention of rainwater seepage around the backbone of the roof. This kind of roof is believed to have been influenced by Dutch architecture.

Carpentry Tool and Artistic Handicraft Room

The room displays carpentry tools of various kinds, such as saw, shaping and boring tools. For handicraft, there are woodwork engravings for building and boat decoration, dessert molds, carving and engraving of shadow-play characters with patterns and steps shown, jute-mat weaving and weaving of Lipao climbing plant. There are also woven products from many different kinds of material. All these highlight the handicraft wisdom and craftsmanship of southern people in utilizing local plants.

Education Room

The room displays education in the ancient tradition of southerners centering around the wat (Buddhist monastery), and the management of education under the province-group administration whereby a province-group school was set up in the Fifth Reign of the Bangkok period. Furthermore, there are aspects of education involving vocational teacher education, university, and education for Thai Muslims in the South.

Recreation Room

The room displays model equipment and pictures about southern forms of entertainment and sport, such as KrueToh , Bla-naw , ball spiraling, top spinning, casting of delicacy pieces, seed dropping, hitting a row of targets, kite flying, bull and goat fighting, water-buffalo horn locking, and cockfighting. Some of these forms are meant to entertain, while others involve gambling as well.

Lighting Room

The display here involves light generators and lights themselves to show the evolution of lighting of southerners, such as flints and lamps of various types, such as toad-shaped and egg-shaped lamps, hurricane lamp, moonlight lamp, lotus-leaf lamp, kerosene lamp, and cylinder lamp.

Glassware Room

Displayed is the glassware found and used in the South. Glass had been used to make ornaments, such as beads and bracelets, from prehistoric times. Glass containers for household use of various types are displayed by color. These are containers for cosmetics and things of fragrance, bottles of various shapes, as well as glass buoys for sea fishing nets and toy glass balls.

Metal and Metal Alloy Culture Room

Displayed are utensils made of metals or alloys, such as silver, lead, copper, bronze, gold-silver-copper mixture, brass, and engraved-and-filled ware. Some kinds of containers are shown in connection with their uses, such as betel-nut bowl and betel-nut set, and noodle compressing cylinder.

Islamic Study Room

The room displays the history, development, and spread of Islam in the South, including the culture, customs, and way of life of southerner Muslims.'

Folk Entertainment Room

On display are forms of folk entertainment and music of the South, such as shadow play, Nora, Ka-law, and wild Likay . Also displayed are model shadow-play house, shadow-play characters, models acting out Nora postures, models of Nora musicians, folk musical instruments, and biographies of national artists who are southerners.

Coin and Currency Room

On display is the evolution of coins and currencies in use in Thailand and the southern region, including coins and currencies from other sources found in the South, such as Chinese coins of various dynasties, Javanese and Malay coins, as well as coins of European countries in use in their colonies.

Religious Room

The room displays Buddhism and Brahmanism in the Sounth by means of original and copies of religious objects, paintings and photographs, such as Shiva Lingam base, Buddhist chapel boundary marker, Buddhist-monk pulpit, photographs of mural paintings of Matchimawat Monastery in songkhla, Chontarasinhe Mpnastery in Naratiwat, and Wang Monastery in Pattalong. Besides, there are paintings of the revered monks Buddhadasa Bikkhu and Panyananda Bikkhu.