National Museum — Attraction in Battambang

This museum is under construction and is due for completion in a couple of months. What they've done, until then, is simply shove all the exhibits into an old building. No order, no information. Lots of empty cabinets. They've even freshly damages some of the lintels. They could very easily put some information up but this feels in no way curated. We happened to know about the different Hindu and Buddhist pieces already but if you didn't have an appreciation of this before walking in you would feel totally lost. There is a big pile of junk taking up half of the exhibit space. Until they finish the main museum upgrade, don't bother with this place. Once the museum is finished, I'm sure it will improve. The pieces they have displayed have a lot of potential to make an...

Small but excellent collection. Hours a bit eratic: they close for lunch from 12 until 2, but don't always reopen on time. For example, i recently went there at 2:15, and they were still shut. They charge $1 to tourists who enter on their own. There's no posted ticket price, nor paper tickets issued; instead there's just a donation box. However the second a foreigner walks in without a local guide, one of the staff members starts screeching "one dollar, one dollar" and they insist you give the money to the staff, rather than putting it in the donation box - i tried to put it in the donation box and they stopped me - so I'm assuming that they're probably just...

Only a relatively small selection of statues amd carvings compared to the museum in Phnom Penh or the even more spectacular Champa museum in Danang, Vietnam, Never the less, some of the pieces are very fine examples of Khmer art. Sadly, most of the statues have missing or defaced heads - either from collectors of that insane period of Cambodian "restructuring" by the Khmer Rouge. still worth a look as the entrance fee is not exorbitant ($3) and it makes a nice introduction to the nearby ruins of Wat Banan...