Haw Lanna Park

Haw Lanna
The Hall of Opium is a good thing: educational, interesting and beneficial. The dioramas readily impart information, with ease. More of this nature should be done.
Much as Angkor Khom culture provided a basis for that of Ayutthaya and KrungThep, ChiangSaen, WiangChai and the hilltops of DoiJomTong and DoiKhaoQuai laid out a platform from which northern SE Asian culture influenced the central plains of Siam and eventually the reality that is modern Thailand.
From Kachin State, SipsongPanna, SipSongChuTai, LuangPrabang and the temple murals of Wat Phumin much insight can still be gained; it is unfortunate and sad that Burmese autocrats have leveled so much of historical importance in Shan State, especially KengTung. And dioramas displaying parallels between the life-layers of teak rain-forest and Lanna cultures with mountaintop Lahu, foothill Lawa, Pa-O and Lua, and valley monoculture rice growing Mon and Shan, could help make history less power-centric. A palace of a half-millennia ago, with huge-wheeled ”quian” (เกวียน), a howdah with weapons and some bamboo abodes would add special color.
Instead of a mono-themed presentation, a much larger vision could do much to foster tourism in a rapidly modernizing world. Tourists want activity beyond looking and admiring, and a cultural park with profitable enterprises can supply that.
A orphanage, old-age home, botanical Tao and Zen gardens, handicraft village, swimming park and lake, petting zoo and IT and research lab (to study addiction, pain suppression, Traditional Chinese Medicine, memory enhancement and ‘detoxification’) plus arrangements for immersion language instruction (Thai, English, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, TeoChew, Lahu-na, Mon) could really provoke interest, even fame.
A farm area, gymnasium, physical therapy station and putt-putt miniature golf course might nicely round things out.