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All Thailand Bangkok Kid Mai Death Awareness Cafe
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Kid Mai Death Awareness Cafe

An immersive exhibition that meditates on death and life.

Bangkok, Thailand

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A skeleton on display contemplating its own mortality.   siroccosky / Atlas Obscura User
An eerie display of “elders” at the Death Awareness Cafe.   siroccosky / Atlas Obscura User
The city is visible through the silhouette of a person.   siroccosky / Atlas Obscura User
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The exhibit has a room simulating birth.   siroccosky / Atlas Obscura User
Signage that leads to the Death Awareness Cafe   siroccosky / Atlas Obscura User
Visitors can spend time in a coffin.   siroccosky / Atlas Obscura User
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This fascinating cafe in Thailand invites you to contemplate death. The site has an interactive exhibition that invites you to swing around in wombs, climb through a vagina to be born into the world of the elders, and try out being in the ICU. From there, you can move on to death, where you are invited to try out a coffin and contemplate the experience.

The cafe serves incredible drinks, named after the phases of existence in Theravada Buddhism: birth, life, and death. The space also hosts to escape rooms based on Thai belief systems; be ready to be terrified by trying to escape the hungry ghosts. You can even climb up to oversee the city from within the silhouette of a human.

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Kid Mai Death Awareness Cafe
1191 Phahonyothin Road
Bangkok, 10400
Thailand
13.778434, 100.543985
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