Preah Norodom Sihanouk-Angkor
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Preah NORODOM SIHANOUK-ANGKOR
Museum is located inside the Tourism and Cultural City of
Siem Reap, in Bœung Don Pa Village, Slakram Commune,
Siem Reap District, Siem Reap Province, CAMBODIA
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Opening
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Tuesday
to Sunday - 8h00 until 17h00
Last admission tickets are sold at 16h30 |
Admission Fee
Foreigner : 3 USD
Cambodian : 1000 R
The visitor’s entrance
to the Museum and the admissions ticket booth are at the
Museum.
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Revenues
from selling the ticket are reserved for conservation work
and the museum management. |
Closed
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2008 :
Cambodian New Year
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September 2008
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Pchumben Day
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November 2008 :
Water Festival
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With friendly cooperation
between the APSARA Authority, Sophia University and AEON
1% Club in Japan, an archaeological museum has recently
emerged on the sacred land of Angkor. It was inaugurated
on the 2nd November 2007 under the Royal Patronage of His
Majesty Preah Bat Samdech Preah Boromneath NORODOM SIHAMONI,
the King of Cambodia, and was officially named as the Preah
Norodom Sihanouk-Angkor Museum. |
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Building D11 (South side) |
Excavation at the Southern
façade of building D11 |
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Discovery Buddha Statues |
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The
ground floor is composed of offices, an information
centre, a discovery room, an experimental room, a
southern exterior gallery, and an atelier of restoration.
The visitors will be guided first to visit at this
ground Floor, some posters explaining briefly the
introduction of the history of Khmer Arts and the
discovery of 274 sculptures in Banteay Kdei temple,
then to the southern gallery and the discovery room.
The latter, besides exhibiting |
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presents the visitors a number of replicas produced
from original sculptures, from which we can learn more
about the situation of discovery and other details of
statues. In the experimental room of this floor, a replica
of a stone pillar with thousand Buddha images is also
available for the visitors who want to practice their
rubbings. |
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The upper floor
consists of two principal exhibition galleries. The
first gallery displays the most beautiful pieces of
different stylistic patterns, such as Buddha statues
with different gestures, Avalokitésvara and
Prajñaparamita statues, few bronze artifacts,
and the stone pillar carved in low relief with 1008
images of Buddha in meditation. The second gallery,
in the south-west corner of the floor, also exhibits
Buddha statues in different seating postures. Apart
from the exhibition galleries, the Museum also has
an archaeological laboratory and a library housing
about 5000 books written in French, English and Japanese
on various subjects of Southeast Asia, especially
of Cambodia. |
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Main Hall
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Stone Pillar with Seated
Buddha Reliefs |
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Buddha with Inlaid Eyes Seated on Naga
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Realistic Statue of Buddha
Seated on Naga
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