Angkor National Museum

Angkor National Museum is an archaeological museum dedicated to the collection, preservation and presentation of Angkorian artifacts, also to provides information and education about art and culture of Khmer civilization, with collections mainly dated from Khmer Empire's Angkor period circa 9th to 14th-century.

Opened on 12 November 2007, the Angkor National Museum covers the golden era of the Khmer Empire, making use of audio-visual multimedia technology.

[3] It is currently displaying archaeological objects borrowed from the Cambodian National Museum in Phnom Penh.

Another source of artifacts is the Conservation d'Angkor, a storage facility of some 6,000 pieces created by the École française d'Extrême-Orient in 1908 and currently in the hands of the Cambodian Ministry of Culture.

[citation needed] Salient issues include the fact that it is foreign-owned by a Thai enterprise, which some critics find at odds with the “national” epithet in its name, and that it is suspected to be primarily interested in turning a profit instead of a genuine cultural motivation.