Thailand: Seated Buddha, Lopburi-Khmer style, off the dining room, Jim Thompson House, Bangkok. The Jim Thompson House is a museum in Bangkok. It is a complex of various old Thai structures that the American businessman Jim Thompson collected from all parts of Thailand in the 1950s and 60s. James (Jim) Harrison Wilson Thompson (born March 21, 1906 in Greenville, Delaware - unknown) was an American businessman who helped revitalize the Thai silk industry in the 1950s and 1960s. A former military intelligence officer, Thompson mysteriously disappeared while hiking in Malaysia in 1967.

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