Best Museums in Siem Reap
The Angkor National Museum, APOPO’s landmine-detection rats, and the Cambodia Landmine Museum.
1
Angkor National Museum
Taphul & Kandal Village4.4$$
Visit before your first temple day and the carvings stop being decoration and start being legible — you will recognize the churning of the sea of milk everywhere.
2
APOPO Visitor Center
Taphul & Kandal Village4.9$$
An hour here turns an abstract tragedy into something concrete and hopeful, and the rats are genuinely astonishing to watch work.
3
Cambodia Landmine Museum
Banteay Srei District4.6$
Twenty minutes from the prettiest temple in Cambodia is the clearest explanation of its hardest history — do both in the same trip.