Angkor National Museum project has been initiated from the granted contract to “Build, Cooperate and Transfer (BCT)” between The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts and Apsara Authority (MCFA & APSARA), on behalf of the Royal Government of Cambodia and Thai professionals represented by Vilailuck International Holding Co., Ltd. (VIH), assignor to The Museum Co.,Ltd. for 30 years concession period.
To this immense awarded opportunity, the project has incorporated The Cultural Mall in the site area of 20,000 square meters as proud to be the profound cultural landmark in Siem Reap province.

• Angkor National Museum : The grand entrance to a world-class heritage that reveals the glory of Angkor Civilization.
• The Cultural Mall : One-stop cultural lifestyle landmark providing tourist facility and recreation amenities for the local community.

• A learning cultural institute inspiring future generations education
• Growing to be No.1 museum site attraction and tourist numbers

• Bringing community collaboration and commitment

The Angkor National Museum : Passionately established, aiming to be –

• The one and only world-class museum in Siem Reap that enhances the cultural heritage of the Golden Era of Khmer Kingdom through amassed collection of invaluable artifacts and through state of the art multimedia technology exhibition for a full picturesque legendary story in an easy understanding way.
• The notable inspiration site of art, culture and history of ancient civilization legend

• To become the ultimate cultural attraction landmark providing a complete tourist f
acility and lifestyle recreation amenities.

Along the main road to The Angkor Site, find the large greenish-grey building that will attract all the visitors and passer-by with its elegance and the astonishing natural garden. Every architectural and landscaping detail was carefully designed to portray the great Khmer cultural and arts.


Angkor National museum

here some more pic:

here the website :

http://www.angkornationalmuseum.com/

yeah built by a Thai company, where will the proceeds go? Not to preserving and protecting Khmer artifacts I suppose. But I am pleased with this museum. I will visit this museum soon.

Angkor National Museum project has been initiated from the granted contract to “Build, Cooperate and Transfer (BCT)” between The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts and Apsara Authority (MCFA & APSARA), on behalf of the Royal Government of Cambodia and Thai professionals represented by Vilailuck International Holding Co., Ltd. (VIH), assignor to The Museum Co.,Ltd. for 30 years concession period.

that means for 30 years the Vilailuck Ltd. will take all the proceeds from tourists visiting the museum. For a museum this big right in the middle of Siem Reap, they are pretty stupid to make a 30 year concession. period.

thats the $hit right there. i hope i go there one day

that's really nice! i like the architectural and interior design.

the location is perfect.

the architecture design is terrible but the interior looks awesome.

what will happen to the royal museum in phnom pehn located outside of the royal palace? will those sculpture and artwork be relocated to the new one?

This is not negative comments but the outside should improves its looks. So plain.

This looks awesome... I think I may do another round trip to the motherland... next year though .

The only problem I have with it is that it is owned by a foreign company, and not just because it's a Thai company, but more like because it's not a Cambodian company... and on top of that, things like this should be government owned and run. Having said that, I honestly believe that Vilailuck will take much better care of it than if it were state owned or owned by a Cambodian company... *sigh*

Still.. I like! =D

Thanx for the pics. Yeah, i read about the controversy of the building. The SRP was against it saying the design should be Khmer style. So Hun Sen made sure the company use Khmer style only, not sure if the designer is Khmer or Thai though.

beautiful sandstone museum

Don't like it. I hate these designs

I like the inside, but the outside is like choking my patience. Its so ugly, that is all that needs said. They should have made the tower design in the bayon style, very sexy and sophisticated.

wow, i like khmer arts. keep them coming but make sure its cambodian company that are running all these new development, please.