Angkor National Museum

To the other museums in the world, maybe you walk quickly to look through all the artifacts. However, go to Angkor National Museum in Cambodia, you need much time to walk through slowly and admire every gallery as the world of history, culture and religion.

    

 A Buddha statue in the Angkor National Museum

Famous for the Angkor Temple complex, the Cambodian today try their best to conserve and restore a lot of artifacts from the temples in the Angkor National Museum. The museum, a profound landmark, is located in Siem Reap with the area of 20 000 quare meters, including the museum that reveals the time of Golden Era of Khmer Kingdom and the museum mall that assists visitors with services.

The head of a statue in Angkor National museum

Visting the museum, you will have a good understanding of ancient Khmer civilization. The society in the Khmer time has been revealed, you will know the Angkorian kings who showed his own style in art architecture. Admire the artifacts, you will appreciate a fascinating millenarian culture. Besides, the worshipping of Vishnu in the Khmer Kingdom has proved the religiosity of the king, the Hinduism, dedicated to the god Vishnu and then the Buddhism.

In the museum, the whole collection of artifacts are divided into 8 galleries in perceptive orders of evolution. Coming to the hall, you reach to the Thousand Buddhas gallery which can be considered as the inspriration on the Preah Poan hall of Angkor Wat. Standing here is statues of Buddha. Majority of the statues were in Theravada school of Buddhism, the one of Cambodia and South East Asia. Those images of statues have exited different centuries in two thousands years. Reaching to next room located after corridor, is wide enough for meetings and other celebrations. The coming room offers you the history of Khmer empire. 

Among the collections in the museum, one is column collection which depicts many kings in different cenruries. On the columns, there are elaborate carvings which showed the peace of the country at that time. When the country was peaceful and wealthy, the kings had more time to make the carvings elaborate.

Moreover, the more impressive is the room in which artifacts depict the Bayon temple with the four-face towers attributed to King Jayavarman VII in the 13th century.

You take relaxing time in the museum and then you enjoy all the artifacts retelling the stories in the past. 
            
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