History and Development

         The Fine Arts Department set the policy to found national museum in regional areas to house preserve and exhibit the art objects and ancient objects which belong to national cultural heritage at least one museum in each regional part. If many ancients structure were discovered with large amount of artifacts had been unearthed in such province that the museum should be founded to pursue those objectives, the permission will be granted to establish the regional museum respectively. In the upper part of Northeastern area there is the regional office of Fine Arts Department section No. 7 situated in Khon Kaen province which comprises of different regional offices of government agents and there is also the university campus, to comply with its policy the Fine Arts Department have founded Khon Kaen National Museum to house and preserve the collection of art objects and ancient objects that were discovered in the northeastern region.