National Museum Inwards Cambodia

Entrance to the National Museum

The National Museum of Kingdom of Cambodia inwards Phnom Penh is Cambodia's largest museum of cultural history too is the country's leading historical too archaeological museum.

Overview

The museum houses i of the world's largest collections of Central Khmer art, including sculptural, ceramics, bronzes, too ethnographic objects. The Museum’s collection includes over 14,000 items, from prehistoric times to periods before, during, too subsequently the Central Khmer Empire, which at its tiptop stretched from Thailand, across present-day Cambodia, to southern Vietnam.

A sculpture during the Central Khmer Empire

The Museum buildings, inspired yesteryear Central Khmer temple architecture, were constructed betwixt 1917 too 1924, the museum was officially inaugurated inwards 1920,and renovated inwards 1968.

Collections

 

Together amongst the side yesteryear side Royal University of Fine Arts too its Department of Archaeology, the National Museum of Kingdom of Cambodia plant to heighten cognition of too save Cambodian cultural traditions too to render a origin of pride too identity to the Cambodian people.

 The Museum too serves a religious function; its collection of of import Buddhist too Hindu sculpture addresses community religious needs every bit a house of worship. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 permanent exhibition, Post-Angkorian Buddha, supported yesteryear UNESCO too a divulge of individuals too local businesses, opened inwards 2000 to extend the religious component division of the Museum.

Interior of the National Museum of Cambodia, Phnom Penh

Under the auspices of the Cambodian Department of Museums, the Museum non exclusively manages its ain collection, staff, too premises only too supports too oversees all other state-run museums inwards Cambodia. Its activities are farther supported yesteryear private individuals, unusual governments, too numerous philanthropic organizations. The activities of the Museum include the presentation, conservation, safekeeping, interpretation, too acquisition of Cambodian cultural material, every bit good every bit the repatriation of Cambodian cultural property. Looting too illicit export of Cambodian cultural fabric are a continuing concern.

 

Stone caput of the Central Khmer Empire menstruum (National Museum, Phnom Penh).

Outside of Cambodia, the Museum promotes the agreement of Cambodian arts too civilization yesteryear lending objects from its collection for major international exhibitions. This exercise was inwards house earlier Cambodia’s recent decades of unrest too was reinstituted inwards the 1990s, starting amongst an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Commonwealth of Australia inwards 1992. Subsequent exhibitions convey been held inwards France, the USA, Japan, South Korea, too Germany.